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News for you all is that some very talented and young and educated new comers are seriously considering making a film. These include Adeel Hashmi, Saquib Malik, Jami, Nini, Marina Khan, Mehreen Jabbar, Suhaib Mansoor (Already commenced) and Adnan Malik. Also some from yesteryears have decided to give it another go like Javed Fazil and nes for you all Veteran Nadeem is working on a script to lauch himself as a director now. Also Faisal Rehman --yes the young boy who came as a hero years back. Lets wish all of them with open hearts and thumbs up. They deserve it and they are good enough to make a mark in the international arena. For when all directors and producers can accept the blame for not doing good enough then all fans and viewers should also accept the fact that they have patronised Indian films and never given a chance to Pakistani films for a moment and then it becomes very heartbreaking to continue in such a scenario. The Indians are very good and have doen great improvements btu then their media and fans never doubted their abilities years back when they were seemingly trailing far behind the pakistani drama and television and a little before that even our films..yes thats right w used to be ahead of them in that area as well though it may seem like a far cry now..Anyway I would like to thank all of oyu for your interest in the pakistani films and hope that youngsters like you can come forward and make all the difference where all of us have apparently failed. Good Luck to all of you in your lives and your futures.
With best regards
Mubasher Lucman
Director/Producer
Pehla Pehla Pyar
yoyo
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The latest news about Lollywood is that both Reema and I are in Thailand right now and we are trying to bridge the gap to be able to support our two films. In fact I have to get ready and join her for Sunday Brunch in the hotel very shortly. Khalil Rana has decided to direct his film the Punjabi flick "Mohabattan Sachian" and Shahzad rafique of Salakain fame is no more directing it. The rift was over Veena and Nirma, guess what? Nirma has won and the director is out. Irfan Malik's film has bombed and so has Altaf Hussain's Aik Gunnah Aur Sahi. Nini is all set to commence his directorial debut of Nadim Mandiviwalla's film. They have just completed the music and I can tell you its out of this world and absolutely divine. Good news for all you out there the music has been composed by Ali Zafar and he has sung the male numbers whilst a new girl from rawalpindi has done the female bit and they are both splendidly stunning I must admit.
Javed Sheikh's film has been postponed as he has decided to shift his locations now its not Bulgaria anymore but likely to be Australia lets wait for this one should be good as it has a lot of talent from Bollywood.
Work on new ciniplexes has already begun in Lahore and that we hope will change the climate of the industry. Additionally the Punjab Goverment has started work on an Imax theatre that is expected to chip in a lot as well. I guess very soon the days will be over for our dated ancient large cinema houses that cant be maintained and soon we should have a culture of mutiplexes like the rest of the world.
Shoaib Mansur is simply held back and his film is stalled due to artists and primarily Junaid jamshed and Ali Zafar. Its a long film about 3 hours and the backdrop is Afghanistan. Should be good when it comes out. He works hard and is in love with his subject.
There are some youngsters in Lahore who have pooled a lot of money and imported some state of the art cameras and equipment and the governmetn is keen to develop a lab of international standards to help the local industry.
Zara Sheikh is in Mumbai these days she is doing an item number of a film over there. Some Indian film people have asked us that they wish to be at the premiere of Pehla Pehla pyar and lets see how it goes.
When I get back to Pakistan we have a meeting on the 5th of August whence about 23 professionals have decided to form a club of directors, producers, studio owners etc to start 6 to 8 films at a time. This will ensure that all productions are of a certain quality and can have good story lines, production values etc. This idea has been going on for some time but now I feel it is very near fruitation. We have also decided in general to try new and emerging directors and refrain from the ones who have given nothing but vulgarity and bad artistic sense. However we still want people like Aslam Dar to make a film as he has always created a master piece whenever he made an attempt. Good news is that Javed Fazil is working on a script and so is Hummayun Saeed. I know for a fact that Jami and saquib Malik are very serious in their attempts and very soon you may witness a totally new climate emerging out of lollywood. For once the Government is also very supportive of all endeavours and for the first time I have seen a real interest and inputs at the highest levels. When we met the Prime Minister recently he was very clear about the kind of films that needed to be made and most of his comments are similar to what I have seen on your pages. He also feels our singers are very talented and that we may use the tool of co-production if and when requried but not simply to be able to say that we have Indian support. Which I feel is very logical and appropriate.
Its is no secret that our film industry is going through a very deep crises and unless revolutionary steps are taken it will be all over. From a ratio of almost 120 films a year we haev now come down to only 25 films this year. The good news is that the quality of Pushto films has imporved a lot and their the audiences have started to go back to cinemas and if we can pull up our socks then there is no reason we cant improve like them. But the single most detrimental factor ahs been blatant piracy and the cabel operators who also shamelssly indulge in piracy. No industry of the world can stand up to stealing adn we cant be an exception but recently the government of pakistan is beginning to crack against piracy and seems to be serious in tackiling this issue. I feel the trend will somewhat shift for a while to Punjabi films more as they are less effected by piracy and that we still make much better punjabi films than across the border. Then once we haev controlled our production values we can again enter the Urdu films that compete or are in comeptition directly with high budget Hindi films. The similarity of languages has been very bad. People tell me to learn from the Iranian cinema, but Iran never had to compete with a country much bigger, richer and more influential in cultural sense that was making films in farsi language..we are. In fact tehre is only one single example evry similar to our indurty's rpoblems and that is the United Kingdom. When Hollywood started it was more rich and technically sound. So the British started to institutionalise their industry anad decided that they were to concentrate on quality instead of quantity. I can be wrong but very soon I think a similar shift will be done in the pakistan cinema after all we have a lot of depth in our literature and no one can match us in that area. I hope and pray that together we all can contribute to reviving the glory days on Cinema in Pakistan.
With best regards
Mubasher Lucman
Director/Producer
Pehla Pehla Pyar
