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One of the only directors still making movies, Syed Noor, has established a film school in Lahore to help seed a new generation of filmmakers.
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great! just what we need... Syed Noor of all ppl teaching ppl how to make films...
why doesn't Afridi open a cricket academy and teach ppl how to bat sensibly next... and maybe a blind person should open up a driving school next...
Syed Noor is an incompetent hack... he is part of the problem... not the solution. and he is most certainly not the messiah Pak film seeks. his film "school" is going to produce more idiots like him.
"In India, they spend $12 million on a movie, and we can spend maybe about $120,000," says Pakistani film producer Jamshed Zafar, who sidelines as an exporter of South Asian spices. "How can we compete?"
this is exactly the wrong attitude. you don't need more money to make better films. you need better acting and a better story. that's all. some of the equipment needs to be updated to improve sound and video... but you could make the garbage these ppl make on the best Hollywood cameras and the movies will still suck major arse... why? because they're made by idiots for idiots.
and I don't get this fascination with the old times. I've seen movies from the so-called golden era... I've seen stuff that was supposed to be good, classics by Waheed Murad, etc and I was extremely disappointed. they were all just musicals. nothing new, nothing original, nothing intelligent... same old boy meets girl crap...
make something different... make something new... without 15 songs but with a real story. watch Khamosh Pani, Mr and Mrs Iyer, Maqbool, Frailty, etc for what the template for the new Pakistani film ought to be. the likes of Syed Noor, Sangeeta, etc are incapable of making good films. they have neither the talent nor the education to make good films.