imo, we need ppl who take pride in their work (no matter what it is) more than we need good writers and producers… we do need good directors though since they’re the captain of the ship. but again the most important thing we need are ppl who take pride in their work. once we get a critical mass of those types of directors, good writers, producers, actors in the film industry will follow.
some ppl take their work very seriously. they’re their own toughest critics and don’t need to prove anything to the audience. their name is a brand. they’re perfectionists. I’m thinking of ppl like Sahira Kazmi, Mehreen Jabbar, Shoaib Mansoor, Raana Sheikh, etc. other names who’re not among us or are not active would be Mohsin Ali, Shehzad Khalil, Rashid Dar, etc. I’m sure we’ve heard of what kind of tyrants Shehzad Khalil and Sahira Kazmi are/were on their sets. we’ve heard how long it took Shoaib Mansoor to shoot 2-minute scenes with a limbless Captain Kashif in ABC. how he would tinker endlessly with the pillows, the lighting etc until the scene looked completely believable. similarly, how tough Shehzad Khalil was on his actors on Tanhayian’s set if they didn’t measure up to his standard. Sahira is known for screaming at ppl and being a tyran in general (and the audiences love her for that). this is why you see their name and you just stop because you know that they would have given everything they’ve got to a project. when these guys are involved, I don’t care who the actors, writers, producers, etc are. I’ll stop and watch it. and it is their professionalism, their drive, their pride that is lacking in other folks…
Shaan openly derides the filams he works in by the dozens. he insults the audiences who go and watch his filams. what kind of a professional is that? where is the pride? where is the self respect? he biatches about the ppl he works with constantly and how they’re not good enough. how the audience is jaahil and stupid. well, what did he accomplish when he worked with a maestro like Shoaib Mansoor in a real film? is it not sad that he was the only so-called “professional”/full-time actor among the three leads and he was completely outshone by Iman and Fawad Khan. Fawad completely stole that film. so, what happened there Shaan mian?
the less said about the self-delusional fool that is Syed Noor the better. we had that other pseudo intellectual on this forum who was directing a film and going by his claim it seemed he was going to best Godfather with his film and he had to use Indian singers because our singers were not good enough, etc. and boy what an giant egg did he lay. now, he lays one medium sized egg every day on TV as a TV anchor. kamaal dunya hay bhai…
so, imo, more than good actors/producers/writers and even directors, we simply need ppl who take pride in what they do. ppl who are perfectionists. not geniuses necessarily but ppl who want to do things well no matter how small those things are. and we have very few ppl like that in our TV industry and none in the filam indushtry.