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Sorry Sir I am one person who will not get into the blame game. I have always maintained that we all must take the blame including the viewers adn supporters. By teh way my web site got voted as teh number one web site in teh world in LA last year. So I think it is not that crappy after all.
We can try and find problems and shortcomings amongst all living beings. I myself can count many in my own personal capacity. However teh idea of an argument or a crtical remark should be progress in some way and any other. I would not like to blame anyone in particular but this is a vicious game and if you care to take it seriously then please give me an idea how can one make a sharp looking film with a 1961 camera that the most prized studio has. The lenses haev never been sent to a callometer and are totally defocused and diffused! Each single producer ro director cant buy his own equipment thats nto the way things run any where in the world and Pakistan cannot be an exception. If today tehre are ARRI 535 cameras and we in pakistan use 2C then trust me no one can bridge the gap between 42 years of technology thats impossible or that technology will not sell!!!
I did get some formal education in direction but I guess that has not worked out for me for in pakistan you need to be a better manager than director. For instance if you can get your cast and crew on location in time I treat you as a good director or else you will be forced to compromise simply because A Mr Shaan has come 8 hours late and that too for onyl two hours. PErsonally I had only one option not to cast people with an attitude and I exercised that option with full gutso. By teh way Resham and Zara are both very ncie girls. It s just a pity that our society looks opon an actress has a girl who is havable. Infact we look at any girl witht he same attitude even she is simply standing on a bus stop waiting for a bus and not a man in her life.
I am not using my vocabularly rather I am mairly trying to emphasise certain points so that you would have a better edge compared to me when you enter the show business arena. So that some one younger may not fall into the same pitfalls as we or people before oyu did.
Let me give you one example of making a film in pakistan. Its something you can neevr be told even if you went to Harvard or Berkley. I would strongly sugegst that you neevr do the songs of the film first and ratehr do the actual film. Once you do the songs then you have absolutely uncontroble actresses on you habnd who try and blackmail you with every possible thing. Its the songs they are after. These songs will enhance their comemrcial rates at a private gathering etc. Thats where then they perform these songs and get paid. Well most of them. some cant even perform to save their lives let alone their sagging careers!. If you keep the shoot of the songs towards the end chances are you will not face any problems at the hands of a professional actress no matter who she is. If you have a famous hero in your cast then always start with the climax scene. Once teh climax is done alongwith other emotional turn points they know they cant bully or blackmail you as you can tehn compleet the film with little variations and they still ar eint eh main cast. This will keep them in check. Now these are things that you will not learn in an ivy league university. I am not saying all actors are like this but then welcome to the real world. Ont he contrary if you are working in India you shall see the biggest superstars as the most obedient this si what makes them a darling of a director or a producer and they are kept again and again despite all odds against them.
I will give you a personal example, in my film just because Zara Sheikh has only one song and not three as compared to Resham she is not participating in any of the film's promotion despite the fact that she has an exceptionally goo drole in the filma nd that this is her film too and when she signed on she signed on for this particular role and now if she thinks it is smaller than her competitor that should not be the problem of the film itself. Our artists majority of them while promoting their own films think and believe they are doing a great service on a personal level. Whilst anywhere in the world you see artists promoting their own films. Like wise we the producers and directors dont recognise artists or stars. It is us who will ensure that no one becomes a star to be able to demand an eccessive price from us. We recognise a star as long as we dont have to pay for them. Unlike Bollywood or even Hollywood they make big stars and then cash them. We simply quash them. Like wise in every area there is agray area but then what are we trying to prove here, I only wish that one day and I dont know when that day will come that we haev certian amount of respect for thiose in the film industry. Unless we can develop that we shall continue to be a fraternity of petty people and small talk will be our hall mark.
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Salaam everyone, my self khiska
first off really sorry Mr, Lucman I dont know who u are for sure, but the more I read ur replies I think u r a director and its awesome we have some1 who is talking to the general public.
I have a little question, when I had geo tv I watched small mini movies and the camera work, direction, story line for the telefilms is just great, why isnt lollywood switching to main stream telefilms, i.e they stop with the cheap camera work, mujras, bad lightning in movie and give a new direction to movies in more of a drama style, this way people will change their concept of lollywood and actually start watching it. One more thing people should change the name lollywood, to Pakistan movie industry to gain some respect.
At the moment I am xtremely sick and therefore3 if my post doesnt make sense please pardon me. I have always felt Pakistan with all its talent can be so much better but no one utilizes it and ppl who make movies xcept for a few are somplete illiterates who make movies only for the lowert class of pakistan, but some1 has to change the class so hat middle and upper class enjoy the movies
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This goes to show and solidifies my everlasting theory that 'majority' of Pakistanis lack professionalism in every aspect of life - be it government, politics, cricket, TV or film. It all comes down to 'how can I lead an easy life by making someone else's difficult' Everybody is looking for a short-cut. There is lack of ethics, discipline and hard work.
The few flashes in the pan we have every now and then are purely on talent alone.
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Well you see fortunately I am one person who can compare teh two mediums since I have now worked on both. Television is in simple terms based on close ups and mid shots, whilst in a film you see a majority of full length shots. This means in simple terms that on television most actors will be good actors as long as they can use their eyes well and twist them around. On the larger screen their body language will haev to sell. This is one reason why most televisiona ctors witht eh exceptions of a few good ones will flop on the big screen. Even most actors except Jennifer (FRIENDS) have flopped on the big screen. They are effective on a linited screen. The same way on a television simply because you are concentrating more on frontals and expressions the depth of field and backgrounds become less over powering whilst in a film teh same shot will expose any weekness on or in a background. So whilst yu may need only 3 color solar lights to lit up a tele frame in teh same setting you will require perhaps 15K of flicker free lighting somethign that requires awesome technical abilities, time and money. You see I cant give you a more elaborate run down but seriously a television screen is fairly limited and to thinkt at a director or an actor whom you have liekd on television will be lovable on the celloid itself is a matetr of choice ro duscussion for most have failed the world over for the same reasons I told you. So eevn whilst some folks tell me that advertisements made by certain cameramen or directors are amazing, I really wonder if they will be equally turned on by the same productions if they saw them on the wide angle anamorphic sized cinema screen??? These are two differnet mediums and were never emant to be compared with each otehr, try and enjoy both of them in their own individual spheres and you shall never be dissappointed my friend.
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When I first saw my rushes of my forthcoming film Pehla Pehla Pyar. I was awestruck For in one flash of a moment I realised that my own height is five feet five inches whilst my name on the screen will appear at approximately 25 feet if not more. It humbled me to the limit. For this is the first time I realised teh magnitude of films and the fact that they are larger than life itself. For how else can you explain anything over a 70 feet diameter?
Films are beautiful and the absolute medium. It does not matter what you choose as your subject as long as you love it you can make some one else fall in love with it too. that some one you may never know or meet could be in a far off island. But thats the link and bondage. It does require a strong flame, a passion and a burning desire to tell a great story. So do not think or ponder about it if you haev a story and feel a grat desire to share it then just go out and shoot it. It could be a family portabel ro a semi professional video camera but your concept will make it stand out......next time when ever you haev this burning desire then just grab your camcorder and start shooting. No one may be able to see your first film but the fact that you ddi it is the most important single factor.
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Yes you are right in one of our last meetings with all the porfessional associations of the film industry I did propose tothem to change the name of Pakistan film industry to Filmstaan or maybe something more loca as KAREEGAR or something like that. They all disagreed and think that the name should not be changed. Still I persisted and now it seems that some of tehm are willing to consider a change if they can help it. By the way the first name was suggested by one of your own a member of the Gup shup Team MR Shuaib. You see the power of Gup Shup neevr underestimate it. You neevr know when your idea will get that spark adn make the difference we so badly need. carry on with your fireworks…
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Thanks for the reply Mubasher Lucman, I think the reason that is keeping Pakistan's film industry behind is lack of professionalism like FG mentioned not talent or potential. I just want to add one more thing if you feel like commenting go ahead. People talk about love stories being hit and the reason behind it, I believe that the only way you can have a hit love story is because you have believeable characters, story and consequences. For example DDLJ, it is a very famous Indian movie and if you watch it nothing happens in three hours. There is no death, disease or anything just boy meets a girl after sometime they fall in love and in the end they get married. All the way through you see characters like girl's father, hero and heroin are interacting with each other or the environment. The main reason that movie is Super Duper hit is because you have a story and characters that one can relate to and the consequences that are real and believeable.
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Man you sure have a plan....you are right in most cases thast could be accurate. However the making of a love story requires more than that. It does require a certain conflict of interest. Infact to be precise the perfect love story is based on a divide. The greater the divide the greater the story. All great love stories are based on a divide. Titanic, Romeo & Juliet, Heer Ranjha, Saif Ul MAlook, Qayamat Say Qayamat Tak..you name it. Be it rich and poor, opposing families, countries, customs beautiful or ugly you name it. The bigger the divide the more problems for the couple to climb over them. That means you haev a perfect love story. Unfortunately in most cases it ends in a tragedy because most divides cannot be won over..thats the truth in most cases at least..
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Ofcourse what do you expect me to answer? Actually to be honest like I said earlier no one can predict how well his or her film will do thast somethign one finds out only after the first show…it takes two hours to make or break two years of hard work..
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mr lucman you might want to go and check up on the promotions of you film, cos pakistans number 1 channel geo is showing reemas films trailer non-stop while they havnt even aired 1 promo of PPP.
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Lucman jee thanku so very much for the PM I dontintend to actually do something bout my conceopt it was just something I really thought about and wanted a professional like ur's opinion since u said iis good, I think its good enough for me since I dont know the ABCD of production. Thanx for the support and if ur movie releases in canada I will for sure go to watch it in theatre
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Some of teh private text messages that I am getting from your members are very harsh and severe. I can appreciate teh reasons and perhaps members of my fraternity have adequately elt you down time and again. I also understand your frustration when you see all work coming out of other countries and hoepfully I dont know when but some day we shall be able to come and bounce back. INshallah.
