Revival of Pak film industry - absolutely necessary for our cultural development

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There is a lot of talent in Pakistan - most of the pakistani artises (gazal singers, musicians, etc) are already there.
I would not be surprised if one day Lollywood becomes as strong as Bollywood.

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But you have to understand that the majority want to see bigger budgeted movies rather then student made films. They want to see feature length films that can look like the quality of Hollywood or Bollywood, yes I know why do we always compare ourselves with India but Pakistanis especially the youth are mad for bollywood. If we cannot give them movies that are upto the visual standard of bollywood then not many people will go see it. There is no doubt we got talent we just gotta utilize it and exploit it to the world.

I’ve written a few screenplays my self after I’m done university I want to make them into feature Pakistani films but the lack of investors is going to make it a tough road ahead.

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** Star Plus's decreasing popularity and Pakistani viewers **

             It is the most cheap way to earn money by showing Indian dramas and shows. Star plus is popular in Pakistan, but surprisingly, Star plus popularity is decreased  in India after because it is showing the Saas Bahu stuff since the last 15+ years. People India started disliking star plus. While our illiterate cable operators are promoting this stupid channel....
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^^ Good thing. even in india people have stopped watching it long time ago.

My own family watches colors or imagine. star plus, zee etc are things of past who couldnt change with time.

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You know for all those people who keep saying that its because of Indian movies and TV shows, even in India, there are so many English movies and sitcoms being shown on TV, Infact there are so many channels that are dedicated to English movies and Enlish serials. Why because its popular and appeals to the mass media. Does not mean its taking over Indian TV

Same as in the case of Indian sitcoms and movies shown in Pak. Besides showing one, two or even four indian serials as compared to 100 paki serials is not like taking over the entire TV industry of Pak. The only way India could be taking over the Pak TV industry was if it were showing Tamil/ Telegu / Bengali/ Marathi shows as well. India is not only Hindi tv & films.

Its just a balance of national and international shows.

Besides didn't Indian movies just start playing the Paki cinemas ??? I though it was banned for the longest time.

Now if you want to argue that, if Indian movies and TV shows are shown in Pakistan then why not the other way around, personally unless paki movies have a slightly more cosmopolitan approach , i doubt it would be able to do good business in India, which is a huge market. I loved Khuda ke liye, but if all Paki movies are going to based around religion and going to have only have one kind of story line of oppression and depression then its not going to work. You have to be able to produce most meaningful and commercial cinema. You have to appeal to the host audience as well. Like Bollywood movies appeal to the NRI market as well as local Indians etc etc

Besides India has so many Paki artists working there at the moment. You don't see that happening in Pak. For all those reality shows as well, India always calls Paki artists. That does not mean Paki artists are taking over ???

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p.s : star plus IS pathetic. there is no denying that.

i blame star plus for not only ruining TV , but also the saree and imitation jewellery market.

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just out of curiosity .. pakistani dramas are shown on indian channels>or no?

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I suppose what the majority want is unfortunately not attainable. They want lollywood/bollywood style backwards musicals, which the new generation of film makers in Pakistan are simply not interested in, from what i've seen and observed. They are interested in telling stories, and communicating what's on their minds. As vague as it sounds, it's pretty much all they want. This phenomenon is so widespread in Pakistan that I wouldn't be surprised if there is an influx of Pakistani origin independent short films in less then two years around the world, in every major film festival of relevance.

This new generation is interested in going out and capturing and conquering, and then communicating through this median. This is unique because in India, Indian movies dominate the industry with cheesy films. They MUSCLE out ANY attempt at mainstreaming a different opinion. This has been why the independent (not cheesy musical) cinema hasn't been able to take off in India; this is also why the non movie musical movie industry hasn't been able to make it to main stream india.

there's a reason why independent filmmakers from places like bosnia and namibia, with no budgets, keep beating "bollywood/lollywood" year after year in every film festival: its because they have specific stories to tell, as opposed to trying to showcase overacting.

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Dr Lulworth:

Bollywood caters to 'entertainment', and box office success ( Rs, $, EUR, Pounds).
'Art' movies - try to document something or depict reaity - they win awards.(not money, as they may be educational, but have no entertainment value).

I think Lollywood needs 'entertainment' movies not 'art' movies.

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i have zero interest in what lolly/bolly does, dost. They cater to the lowest of the mental level of an audience as you can imagine, when it comes to this business. Why someone will pay to see shahrukh khan and shaan dance in butt tight pants is absolutely beyond me, personally. Pakistan has an opportunity to recreate it's film industry from BOTTOM UP...and THAT excites me.

also, independent effort does not equal art film. maybe in certain western point of views, but even that is changing (for example Ocean's 12 is considered an Independent as it wasn't funded by the "industry"). The "old lollywood guard" in Pakistan is learning SLOWLY. Some of the industry owners have invested in low cost digital film schools. They are abandoning silly 1940's style musicals...and it's UNBELIEVABLY awesome to see.

Moreso, the youth (and pakistan is now a VERY YOUNG country) don't have a voice. This is one median that is providing is. The aesthetics are resourced, and so is the production quality, but the films and documentaries...are SPLENDID.

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There are many films that are both entertaining and artsy. From India I can think of Lagaan, in Pakistan there have been a number of memorable television dramas that were entertaining and artsy.

Personally, I think films that focus on entertainment at the expense of story, simply do a disservice and are somewhat counter productive, because they dont live up to what film was meant to be, a form of expression that encourages dialogue.

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Jinn the movie.

although not entirely a pakistani movie…still something interesting. Horror movie introducing our concept of jinn to a western audience!!!

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Cool. Jin, why not…

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There is some excellent quality art being produced now in Karachi, and it's coming out of the darkness and frustration Pakistanis are in as a country. There are strong cultural sentiments, like the frustration about religious extremism, a desire to develop an identity that is distinct from westernized "McDonald's on Clifton" kind of culture, etc. So you see things like Coke Studio come out where the sentiments of sufi-ism and general anger at how life is now in Pakistan is a driving force behind the art.

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It's because artists in India can make more money than in Pakistan. Size of the economy.
No Indian artist would like to come to Pakistan to make less money.

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Indian Artists also doing work in Pakistan.

Firstly, Indian singers (including Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishna Moorti, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu) recorded some songs for Pakistani movies like Yeh Dil Aapka Hua, Tere Pyar main, etc, then Naseerudin Shah acted in Shoaib Mansoor's Khuda Ke liye. Neha Dhopia also did a Pakistani movie.

Fareeda Jalal recently worked in Pakistani sitcom 'Dolly Aunty ka villa' telecasted from geo tv. Before her Aamina Sharif (Kashish), Nosheen Sradar (Kussum) & Juhi Parmaar (Kumkum) worked in geo tv dramas 'Ana' & 'Tere Ishq main'. Nosheen Sardar was also in Pakistani movie 'Main ek din lot ke aaonga'.

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I just saw this, and have to say, GOD FORBID if this happens. we already have bolly and lolly and they are TERRIBLE cinema as is. we definitely DONT want another bigger, equally more crappier lollywood. I hope that term goes away. I hope musicals go away. I hope bollywood too, one day goes away. Pakistani Digital Cinema or Green Cinema would ideally be the new name going forth.

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Green cinema. I like that. Sounds new age-ish, plus environmental friendly.

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alright, i was mistaken on the fact that Indian artists did not work in Pakistani film and television industry.

Haven't seen any of those.

Although i think along with the Pakistani films , why dosent the industry concentrate on talent shows. I was just wondering that yesterday ?? I haven't seen any talent based shows ???? I saw one i think Nach le ... but tht was bad !!!!!!!! All the dancing was done on Bollywood songs and sometimes entire dance sequences were lifted from Indian dance reality shows.

Besides that i haven't seen anything??? And that was a dance based reality show, the only one of its kind tht i saw. **Is dance not promoted in Pakistan ????? **And just for my knowledge, like how we have Bharatnatyam , Garba and Dandiya etc etc is there any such in Pakistan ???

But about song based reality shows , i have not seen any which is quite surprising coz as far i i understand there is quite an active music industry so how come you guys don't have anything like Pakistani Idol or Pak version of X factor or like we have Saregama singing competition.

Its not only films that promote culture, TV has a major major hand. And i think talent shows would do tremendously well.

The dramas and food channels are all very good , but here needs to be more !!