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Pakistan lifts bans on Bollywood films
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By Businessofcinema.com Team
8 February 2008, 08:08 PM
MUMBAI: The Pakistan government has given the green signal for the Akshay Kumar starrer Welcome to screen in the country's theatres. This thus ends the 43 year old ban on screening of Indian films in the country.
The film's release in Pakistan theatres comes after a Pakistan Senate standing committee on culture had recommended to the government to allow screening of Indian films under a proper censorship policy last month. The ban on Bollywood movies was imposed in 1965 after the India-Pakistan war.
In the past some films like Taj Mahal - An Eternal Love Story, Mughal-e-Azam and Awarapan have also been screened in Pakistan. However, these have been on-off cases.
Some other recent Indian movies that are being screened in Pakistan are Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal and Gangster.
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Welcome Creates Waves in Pakistan
Saturday 9th February 2008 9.00 IST
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Welcome opened in Pakistan yesterday (8th Feb) to an overwhelming response. Even though pirated DVD's and VCD's have been available all over Pakistan for the last seven weeks the theatres showed a great turn out.
Cities like Multan, Gujranwala and Faisalabad had excellent collections on day one.
If Pakistan was to became an open territory for hindi films it would be bigger than all the Indian territories except for Mumbai, Delhi/UP and Punjab.
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Welcome Collections In Pakistan
Tuesday 12th February 2008 19.00 IST
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Welcome opened to great collections across Pakistan and the craze of the film is such that it may have an upward trend as collections improve in week two as there is more awareness of the release.
All the following collections are from single screen theatres as there are only two multiplexes in the country Cinepax in Rawalpindi and Cineplex in Karachi.
The following figures are for the first three days with each cinema showing three shows daily
Lahore
Metropole-2,15,190 (Goal collected 2 lakhs here in week one with early release)
DHA-3,24,500
Sozo-1,44,950
Plaza-1,56,450
Total-8,41,090 from 4 cinemas
Karachi
Collections not available yet but Cineplex was sold out on Saturday and Sunday while Nishat also saw full houses on Sunday
Faisalabad
Taj Mahal-2,33,200
Rawalpindi
Cinepax-1,13,400
PAF-57,355
Total-1,70,755 from 2 cinemas
Gujranwala
Prince-1,25,970
Zinco Palace-80,730
Total-2,06,700 from 2 cinemas
Multan
Dreamland-1,09,560
Rex-95,500
Total-2,05,060 from 2 cinemas
(Figures in PKR)
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Well one thing is interesting that two Urdu Newspapers has declared the film a flop after the initial rush. The reason stated that people have already seen the film on DVD and Feroz Khan's scenes have been cut.
The figures qouted above are not bad but nothing special. Lets see how it fares this week and next. I am totally against Indian films getting released in Pakistan but from a business point of view until piracy is not totally eliminated in Pakistan then Indian films have no chance.MR NICE39491.319375
