the whole movie can also be downloaded at pakmusic.com in a crystal clear copy.
looks like pirate copy has gone out everywhere

how do you make the screen bigger

if kakn releases on eid then dnt expect any other film to come on eid or even this year as all cinemas will be booked out

it is quite sad that kkl only released on just 9 prints and didnt release in big citys like isl,pindi, quetta or peshawar. when films like ktsk/ppp/majajan had released on over 20 prints,

i think they really released the film at the wrong time with the country in a political mess, otherwise the film could have easily released in a lot of cinemas of a print count of over 25, which could have given the film over 2 crores in first week.

MUMBAI: Makers of Kaafila, producer Tony Sandhu and director Ammtoje Mann held a press conference in Mumbai today (11 August) to clarify their stand on Kaafila's ban in Pakistan.

The filmmakers claim that the Pakistan audience reacted with utmost enthusiasm to the theatrical promos of Kaafila. The promo had apparently been cleared by the Pakistan Censor Board. So good was the response that the distributor Satish Anand of Eveready Pictures even asked for an increase in the number of prints from 15 to 25.

However, on Thursday (10 August) as the film was being viewed by the Pakistan Censor Board including the chairman Mr Cheema, the colonel and military general also chose to view the film. "They started to raise silly objections, which had no justifications. The Pakistan I&B minister said that the film shouldn't be released in Pakistan," says producer Sandhu.

"According to me the film is not against any Pakistani norms, in fact I have taken utmost care to make it as authentic as possible," adds director Mann.

As the response from the audience was overwhelming, Sandhu thought of an alternate strategy alongside to curb piracy. "I wanted the film to have a simultaneous release in India and Pakistan, so that people would not opt for the pirated DVDs and VCDs. Moreover I also sold the home video rights to ARY channel, thus ensuring that there is minimal or no piracy," informs Sandhu.

Late on Thursday, some officials told Sandhu that he may re-edit the film and apply for censorship again. However, he refused the offer because the film's purpose of a simultaneous release would be defeated. He also suspects that since Indian film releases in Pakistan were to become more frequent, this would harm the interest of the Pakistani film makers and hence they too were up in arms against the movie's release.

In the bargain Sandhu suffered a loss of Rs 25 lakhs toward prints and traveling and Rs 30 - 40 million (Rs 3 - 4 crore), which the film may have garnered from Pakistan.

MR NICE said:

The breakdown of business of Khuda Kay Liye all over Pakistan during the 1st week of release:

Total first week business :1 crore,7 lakh, 96 thousand, 256 rupees. Some papers have quoted a figure of 1 crore 20 lakhs.

The previous record was 68 lakhs by Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa.

The film has been released in 9 Cinemas in the Punjab and 4 Cinemas in Sind. No figures are available for the other two provinces.

78 lakh business was done in the Punjab and about 20 lakh business was done in Sind.

The most business was done at the Prince Cinema, Karachi, 23 lakh, 71 thousand and 350 rupees. At the Cinepax the business was 2 lakh, 25 thousand and 500 rupees.

At the Bombino Cinema in Hyderabad the business was 3 lakh, 37 thousand and 164 rupees. At Tasveer Mehal, MirpurKhas the figures are 42,640 rupees.

At the Gulistan Cinema in Lahore the business was 17 lakh, 18 thousand and 270 rupees. At Sozoworld the figures are 16 lakh,82 thousand and 250 rupees. At the DHA cinema the business was 15 lakh, 20 thousand and 250 rupees. (Every impressive figures from Lahore)

Business of over 50 Lakh from just Lahore. Brilliant!

Business from other cities of Punjab:

Kashmir Mehal Gujranwala 5,11650 rupees

Carpri Multan 6,50570 rupees

Faisal Cinema Gujrat 1,93080 rupees

Parwana Cinema Sialkot 2,16300 rupees

Taj Mehal Faislabad 11,88400 rupees

Shaheen Cinema Sargodha 1,38665 rupees

what is your source?

shahrukh khan said:

yoyo said:

he should save pakistan from embarrasment by not showing it at all.

i have never seen u supporting urdu movies first watch the movie...then give ur comments

i will rephrase that for you
'i have never seen u supporting rubbish movies'

what channel do you see the glimpse on?

he should save pakistan from embarrasment by not showing it at all.

i am also concerned about quality, cos trailors shows it to be colourless and all green.

at the end only expect 1 film to release on eid, i think it will be KAKN, while the rest of the producers will get scared of it and delay them.

also 2 critaly acclaimed films, zibakhana and botal gali are expected to be released soon, this month or next month,

its coming in september most probably in uk.
shoaib moonsoor says he is planning a grand premier in london where all cast and crew would be.

well i think its good its mostly in english because its an international film and should gain lots of internation acclaim and hopefully win best foreign film at oscurs

there is 1 bad trailor of ms and 1 good one,

there is also zibakhana which is releasing next month.

afridi_hasnat said:

Yoyo u have wrong information.
MEDLKA was released on 27th April.Gulistan Cinema was its main cinemas in Lahore.Sozo World was its Side Cinema.
Then for Spiderman 3,MEDLA was shifted from Sozo World to Sozo Gold.
It ran in Gulistan Cinema from its release unti Khuda Key Liye's release.
If u want proof,then u can check old jang newspapers,call gulistan cinema or if i culd i will post article.

Even on Geo it was shown on its first day of the film.Tony was hosting it and he was at Gulistan Cinema.He rated the film Good.And when asked public opinion one said negative about the film.

I am not sayin ur wrong,respect ur opinion.

Even on Filmazia,it was shown on its first day at Gulistan Cinema.

It was also the first pak movie to run for so long time at cineplex(seaview)karachi,mostly gentry ppl cum there.Celebrities were seen watchin the movie.

like i told you i saw it myself wen it first released at gulistan that was 15th june the day spiderman released,
first i went to sozo to watch it but then they told me its been replaced by spiderman and they have given gulistan the print for it so i went there to watch it, that was the first time gulistan played the film so i dnt know why you are lieing,

and MEDLKA was not at sozo world it was at sozo gold, shrek 2 was beening played at sozo world for the last few weeks, then when spiderman released it went to sozo world and shrek2 moved to sozo gold and pushed medlka out. i went there about 3 times myself had had chats with the main guy at the window.

i dnt know about cineplex cos ive never been there.

its good you liked it, thats your opinion but dnt spread false information.

dude medlka did not release in gulistan untill after a month of its release, thats when sozo dumped the film to screen spider man3 and it went to gulistan from there, i saw it first day at gulistan
in the end humayun saeed gets back togeher with his family and puts them in nausheens house then he goes and kills the villains and gets his house back.
i dnt know why you are getting so insecure, maybe you liked it good but dnt make false news up, nearly the whole nation has rejected this film.

but its now good to see the audience is maturing and such trash like MEDLKA is being rejected despite its aggressive promotion and films like KKL are turning into hits,

shahrukh khan said:

bollywood inspired thats ur old habit yeah u dont understand urdu...go & watch majajan

my old habit
yes unfortunatly its bollywood inspired mr.srk and it happens cos we have people like you in our country who suck up tp the indians.

not only was MEDLKA bollywood inspired but was a load of crap infront of bollywood films itself.

thats BS.

you have said the complete oppersite of the fact.

the film did average business and that because of its aggresive promotion which lured people into the cinemas after that people were aware how cr@p the film was, if it was not of its aggressive prommotion the film would have completly fell flat on its face.

and i dnt know what you are talking about cos the film didnt release in gulistan untill after a month, when sozo stoped showing it, the print went off to gulistan and i watched it there and cinema was about 20% full and ac was working so again i dnt know what your talking about.

i almost fell asleep watching this rubbish and i dnt even know how people can like such a degraded bollywood inspired film, its like a z grade bollywood film. i am so glad this film didnt make its way to india otherwise it would have embarrased us further,
i am still shocked that javed fazil made this piece of sh*t.

its nice review and expected but you also gave good review to MEDLKA

looks like alot of films are ready to release, kkl on 20th then jhoomer on 14th august and mohubatein saachiyan and khule assmain ke neechaye also completed and ready for release

http://www.dhacinema.com/

promotion was really low, but the word has got around now and people are going to see the film unfortunatly the film only got 2 weeks permission to show the film

thats what you get for sucking to india. no wonder it was a horrible experience

Abrardh1 said:

yoyo said:

mr. nice i have given you the link there, but clearly you are blind and unable to read it,

please use your brain and go to the link i posted its the updated list for the year 2006, cant you see its the last part of his magazine for 2006, if you still cant see it then get help from an adult.

you need to stop acting like your some king of lollywood whos knows every about it cos your just a little child seeking attention.

Both of you are right, there is no point arguing, Mazhar has made a mistake, he posted it as a flop in one place and a hit another.

well it was not really an arguement, i was just defending myself cos mr.nice was calling me blind even thought i posted a link of mazhars site,

but lets just get the facts straight. tarap is a flop

well his film izzat ke keemat has new faces

FILM PREMIERE
Zibahkhana brings the house down at LUMS


Sehrish Khan
Lahore

Picture this: People of different ages, students from different universities, a hint of musicians and models – huddled and crowded together as one, outside one of LUMS' auditorium doors.

Only two auditoriums were showing Zibahkhana - Hell's Ground but due to the massive popularity, hype and demand surrounding Zibahkhana - a contemporary horror movie of Pakistan with its first ever viewing on its soil – hoards of people were lined up outside already-packed auditoriums trying to get seats for themselves. The FILUMS committee (at LUMS) dexterously announced (just in time) that three additional auditoriums were also showcasing the movie! So four auditoriums around LUMS were jam-packed with girls and boys waiting in curiosity, wondering what kind of a horror movie Omer Ali Khan (the man behind Hot Spot) had in store for them.

Clad in a white crisp buttoned down shirt, with a pair of evening wear blue jeans and a casually accessorized belt – Omer Khan said: "For me, this is a dream come true, it's one of my ambitions and passions that I've worshipped my entire life," he stated before playing the film in the auditorium. "Some of you will absolutely love it and some of you will hate it. It's an extremely low budget film," said Omer Khan before proceeding, "I'm too old to consider myself as the new wave of film professionals so I wouldn't say that about myself. This movie is all about entertaining! If you understand or feel even one iota of my passion and love for horror movies through Zibahkhana – I consider my mission accomplished!"

The movie started with Adnan Malik driving the car towards Janat Pur and mysteriously getting murdered by some unknown monster on the way. The next scene led to model, Rubya Chaudhary (who plays the character Roxy), sprawling out of bed – her character coming to life as that of a spoilt rich girl. The excruciatingly dashing lad, Osman Butt (aka the Orlando Bloom of Islamabad), played the character of OJ whose main mission in life was to smoke up and get high. Haider Shah, a local lad from LUMS plays the character of Simon, a shy fellow whose family is not as well-off in comparison to his friends and has to deal with a verbally abusive father, but whose mother, however, loves and adores him.

Kunwar Roshan plays the character of Vicky who throughout the movie, is the friend who gets the van and is the designated driver for the road trip. Last but not the least, Roshani Ijaz plays the character of Ayesha, a 'good' girl who lies to her mother for the first time in her life, in order to sneak out to the road trip these five friends have planned. Little did they know that they'll come face to face with Hell's Ground on the way!

The script was hilarious to the point that most of the times the audience would let out a roar of laughter. The characters of Zibahkhana depicted realistic, believable, everyday people and the roles gave a natural backdrop to the story. The actors were also very easy with delivering their dialogues. The camera shots too were done really well, in a very 'old school' manner.

Although Omer Khan said that there was nothing politically or socially driven about the movie, that it was all fun; it does manage to touch a lot of controversial aspects of our society. The one thing that was clear during the FILUMS screening of Zibakhana was that the audience were glued to their seats!

Omer Khan has been attending various film festivals showcasing Zibahkhana (Copenhagen and Philadelphia to name two) and started writing Zibahkhana two and a half years ago. Talking to Instep Today, Omer stated that his sequel to Zibakhana is going to be a film called Zinda Laash – whose actors he chose by having auditions in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.

Instep Today got a chance to talk to the actors of the film. Osman Butt said the actual shooting took around four weeks at Rawal Lake, where scary instances did occur while the shooting of the movie; Roshani Ijaz, while running in a shot was told not to stop the car or get outside. She claims she was told and everybody knew that a little boy was running along side and was actually a ghost! Yikes! That is truly freaky! Rubya Chaudhry added, "After we left the shoot location, an actual dead body was found in that area!"

During the first week of July, Omer will be screening Zibahkhana at the New York Film Festival in Manhattan. "My parents are to blame! My father's been a Hitchcock fanatic since forever, when I was little used to watch The Birds or Psycho – so I was bitten by the horror bug by a very young age!" Omer grinned.

Zibakhana's screening at LUMS went extremely well. Other colleges should put up similar screening events for the youngsters of the city, to support talent in whatever and whichever way possible.   

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/instep_today.asp

i hope a distributer approches him.

instep profile
Horror according to the ice candy man
Omar Ali Khan came into the spotlight as the man who gave Islamabad its first cool hangout The Hotspot. Now, he's given Isloo it's first slash fest!

By Maria Tirmizi


I hadn't met Omar Ali Khan before, the owner of Islamabad's favourite ice cream hangout, Hotspot, and director of the country's first internationally distributed horror teen flick, Zibahkhana. So expecting to meet some slick director with dark shades and sleek, gelled back hair, probably chewing gum and dangling car keys in one hand while gushing about his new film, I entered Hotspot. What I got instead was someone standing behind the counter himself, with salt-and-pepper hair and intelligent, tired eyes that seemed seriously perturbed over the various dichotomies and hypocrisies prevalent in our society.   

Without wasting any time, he emphatically drove home the point: "Let there be no mistake. Zibahkhana is a scuzzy, rough edged, cheesy little horror film. I call it a midnight movie. If people are expecting the slickness of something like Krrish (a Bollywood blockbuster) or the profundity of some documentary from Iran, they're going to be flabbergasted."

Watching the trailer of the film on YouTube, I felt he was being much too humble. There's no denying the fact that it is a movie that follows the typical format of the horror film genre (wild teens misbehave and get nastily slashed for it), but for those of us whose experience with Pakistani films revolves around a senior citizen with a jet black wig holding a bamboo stick complacently while a bulky lady dances the very earth off from under him, Zibahkhana is not just a 'cheesy little horror movie'.




t's a cheesy little horror movie that gives us hope.

It promises better times to those who've been seated on the sidelines for far too long, watching droplets of contaminated water being trickled on a withering, dying plant that is our film industry.

Shocked and excited about a horror film, a very contemporary one at that, coming out of a country most famous for its regular, eager appearance in the 'Terror Watch' segment of their evening news, the audience at the Natfilm Festival in Copenhagen and Philadelphia Film Festival responded just the way Omar hoped.
"We've had a very positive reception. They laughed at the right stuff, squirmed at the right stuff. There were a few ovations. Pakistanis were pleased. The elderly ones were especially complementary. They enjoyed songs of Madam Noor Jahan from the 70s. We even bought the rights to use the songs from an elderly gentleman, shocking the spectacles off his nose for doing that."




The film received interest from Sundance Film Festival as well, but was months too late to apply. It will be viewed in around 10 to 20 festivals, including some in July in Switzerland and Montreal.

"People abroad are always looking for something new. They get excited about Korean horror films one year, and it's something else the next year. Simply because Zibahkhana was a horror film from Pakistan, they were intrigued," said Omar.

The trailer of the film is eerie and fascinating. It starts off with a bunch of believable looking urban teens on their way to a rock concert in an interesting little van painted with images of our quintessential Lollywood heroine. Along comes a psychedelic old man prophesizing 'a hideous death', a hag promising to rip the very flesh off their bones and zombies, including one midget, in shalwar kameezes up to some nasty stuff not meant for the eyes of the squeamish, and you get "Pakistan's first extreme horror movie". Not to forget the buzz generated around a zombie in a burqa!

"There's nothing political about that," he insists. "It's just that I've seen many things in Pakistan, but the sight of a burqa just terrifies me. It's a childhood thing."


Probing him further on the 'burqa monster', he responds with a smile, "Let's just say, weird things happen. Things are revealed that are bizarre and extreme."

Omar Khan calls himself a student of classic horror films. He grew up consuming EC comic books (Entertaining Comics) that specialized in horror and crime fiction and were so shocking that they had to be banned, along with Hammer films ( that include The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula) and Lollywood films of Zeba and Muhammad Ali.

"I'm not ashamed to admit I grew up watching Lollywood films. I used to stick up for them, whatever they were like. But the films that come out now, we just can't identify with them. No disrespect to Javed Sheikh, but his work is based on trying to achieve the gloss and excellence of Bollywood. I'm sorry but we can't keep imitating Bollywood. Our strength lies in following our own instincts. Even a film like Maula Jut with all its crudeness is more Pakistani than something like Yeh Dil Aap Ka Hua. One represents the soil and nuances of Pakistan, the other is an insipid, beautiful copycat," he says.

He regrets the fact that in Pakistan, people have grown up on a diet of big budget Bollywood and Hollywood films, and don't have a tradition for cult films.

"You get mainstream, great looking horror films. The Hills Have Eyes for example. That's worth a million dollars. I wish we had that kind of money but we don't."

"I was honored to be one of the jury members at the Kara Film Festival in 2003 and I got a taste of what people are enjoying. They watch something like Armageddon or 300 and are like "wow, what a movie". True, they're visually stunning because of their massive budgets, but at the same time, someone like David Lynch, with limited resources and a brilliant mind, is an unknown entity to these people. People will aspire to slickness rather than the creativity that comes out of being bound by budget constraints."

When the script of Zibahkhana was initially written around five years ago, the purpose was to make something extremely over-the-top and wacky with about as much subtlety as a Pushto film. But then Omar started writing the sequel to Zinda Lash or The Living Corpse (a 1967 Pakistani Dracula movie) which somehow turned into Zibahkhana. He is extremely proud of the fact that the cast and crew are all Pakistanis and it has been made entirely in Pakistan in an area near Rawal Lake next to the Naval Club in Islamabad.

"When I first saw the location, I thought, this is it. It looked good and it was near our homes too. And then the police showed up, asking us to get out of there. I asked them why, since I didn't see any signs reading 'stay out'. And the police responded that a lot of dead bodies get dumped in the area." Just the right touch of authentic creepiness.

Luckily, they got permission from the police commissioner to use the area and with extreme duress of budget and time, heatstroke and nastiness of the month of June, along with cockroaches and the appearance of a couple of cobras, shooting for Zibahkhana began. He recalls the experience in extreme words: "Miserable and awful."

"But working with the cast was an absolute pleasure. The kids are free-thinking, spirited, politically astute individuals from Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. The crew was also interesting. For the first time I witnessed the famous Lahore-Karachi divide among the crew members with their preconceived notions and generalizations."

Staying away from the typical hairy-faced fang monsters, the film introduces a new kind of monster with the help of the stunt double of Sultan Rahi, Sultan Billa, on whose appearance the audience in the festivals broke into applause.

Omar apprehends that some people might call the film a rip-off. "Well, it's so easy to criticize but I'm certainly not reinventing the wheel. This is just a fun, jaunty, midnight movie that follows the typical underlying morality of horror films, which is, if you misbehave, you'll be punished."

But Zibahkhana is more than just a mindless slaughter film. There are various interesting references, from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Psycho and Evil Dead to Adnan Sami Khan. Yes, Adnan Sami Khan.
"It's a love letter to all those great, zero budget horror films we grew up watching and loving," says Omar.
Some serious undercurrents are also palpable throughout the film. Characters depict a certain dichotomy in their personalities that a lot of us experience living in this society. One character highlights our ignorance in treating certain segments of the society as 'untouchables', something the foreign audience didn't pick up on. A scene of a protest rally staged against contaminated water forms a decisive part of the film.

"I'd like to say the political awareness in this film, though not very overt, is certainly tangible," he says.
All this talk stimulates the right amount of goosebumps for sure, but will we get to watch it on our big screens? With its mild curse words and some scenes with drug usage, will it pass the censor board? Has it even been sent to the censor board?

Till now, it hasn't, nor are there any plans at the moment to send it to the board.

"There is so much red tapism involved. You have to sweat and run around dealing with people you don't even want to."

"But if the censor board rejects it, I could take my lawyer with me and show them some of the films that they have passed, like the Pushto film Kacha Ghotay which is obscene to say the least. I am stunned to see the films they've passed. I even put up a clipping of one film passed by the censor board on You Tube, and it was pulled off within days for being offensive."

"As far as I feel, a film should not be anti-state or anti-Islamic. Anything else should go. I really don't know whose sitting on the censor board and I have no disrespect for anyone nor have I tried to antagonize anyone. We're living in a world scenario where you can't even afford to be controversial with vigilante burqa clad women just around the corner. But I do have one thing to say: Please grow up and get a grip. Let adults be treated as adults. Let's give our movies some soul. We can't watch 'rich boy- poor girl' love stories anymore. We need to show the audience something other than Jut in Lahore and Vehshi Haseena. People who want to watch these films, let them watch them. But we need to broaden our horizons. We need people like Saqib Malik on the censor board, people who know about films and have their livelihood depending on films."

For now, there is no plan of screening the film in Pakistan. He wishes a private TV channel would buy its rights and bleep out some words if it has to.

"It's not like I'm going to become a millionaire. This film has cost me an arm and a leg, but if I'm going to make another film, I need to at least recover the money."

If no one buys it, he will let a British DVD label release it. Even then, issues of piracy haunt him.
"What will I do if the movie is pirated and cable operators start showing it here everyday. Let's face it, piracy is officially protected here. It's not like we go to some shady little alley from a backdoor to buy pirated DVDs. We go to major, flourishing, event-sponsoring, double-storied, air conditioned shops. Who's protecting piracy?"

He is also expecting some people to complain that 2007 is a 'Visit Pakistan' year and that he hasn't projected Pakistan in the most positive light.

"My response to such people is, look around; there is ugliness all around you. You have people selling kidneys on the street for God's sake. Grow up and tackle all sorts of issues."

"There's an interesting scene in the movie that we shot near Nallah Leh in Rawalpindi where you can see the greenish-blue water of the nallah and literally a foliage of paper on the surface of it. People outside Pakistan asked me, 'how did you stage the pollution shot?' It was funny. I could only wish I had staged it."
He hopes this movie will encourage young fresh blood to get off their backs and stop playing safe.

"We've noticed theatre blossoming in Islamabad and it's a very positive feature, an avenue for kids to express themselves. I really wish these people would develop a sense of self-worth and value to trust their own ability and gradually move away from adaptations and regurgitating musicals. The ultimate aim should be to write something yourself."

The opening of multiplexes by the government in Karachi and one in Rawalpindi is seen as a positive and encouraging sign by him, but he wishes that at least one screen would be reserved for local films; otherwise, these multiplexes would be useless to our industry.

He's going to start work on the sequel to Zibahkhana soon, and keeping in mind the previous experience, it won't be shot in July.

"We've learnt so much and won't be making the same mistakes again. My message to kids learning courses in film-making is this: there is no substitute for going out there and shooting. Nothing prepares you for the real thing. This was the biggest crash course of my life."

The walls of Omar Khan's ice cream shop The Hot Spot are framed with posters of Alfred Hitchcock's horror movies and painted with desi monsters, along with a few additions of Zibahkhana's zombies. It makes one realize that he has genuine love and passion for this particular genre. This film is something he feels he just had to do and was long overdue. We hope and anticipate that Zibahkhana gets its due encouragement to become the first in a long line of horror films, cheesy r not, to give us frightful midnights in our own endearing, direly needed, desi flavour.

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/may2007-weekly/nos-13-05-2007/ins tep/mainissue.htm

the film was shown at fiLUMS recently, heres a review from lahore blogs.


As the title of this post suggests "don't eat "Luddoos", SPECIALLY from any "khokha" during a long drive, you must have been surprised that where these Luddoos came from? Actually, its all about Zibahkhana. Yes, finally I made it to FiLUMS festival's third and last day. They said it will start at SHARP 7:30 PM, but it took a little while to get seated "on stairs" and it started around 8 o'clock. Expectedly, there was a huge crowd, mostly were the students, and I saw a very few outsiders there. First, Shanu Taxi was played on, it was a short film by Vasant, a director from India. Shanu Taxi was about 15-20 minutes' duration and was based on a random thought about a twist in a taxi driver's life after receiving a gift of mobile as a reward of his honesty, no doubt it was a thought-provoking piece of celluloid, and after that came Zibahkhana.



Before getting started, the enthusiastic Omer Ali Khan, writer and director of the movie, told about the movie itself, it was a fun-wrapped speech and everybody was quite amused. Zibahkhana was almost around 1-1:30 hour in duration. The story goes around 5 college chicks, who secretly planned for a long drive for some thrill and left their homes telling a different story to their parents, AND it all started happening after they stopped by first "khokha" and had tea and Luddoos and soon after that they had first attack by a Zombie, and afterwards they got lost in the jungle and then the story goes on.

Most interesting part was that all 3-4 major characters were students, who were enjoying the movie with us and whole crowd applauded on every commendable scene, so they were getting direct response, though most of the time the reaction of crowd was fun driven. Technically a sound movie and various small details were addressed, but some scenes had less clarity as to what exactly happened. The cinematography was perfect and the performance was great, new talent was very confident.

Most importantly, the stuff I liked about this local director's flick was that, that its purely based on Pakistani Culture, there were glimpses of Maula Jutt, dhamal beat as the dominant background music, usage of "shuttlecock burqa" as mask or cover, even Luddoo. Yes, the story was predictable, but original locations and related Pakistani props gave it a reality-based genuine touch. It was fun watching first Pakistani horror movie, no doubt we were laughing most of the times, but there was really some ruthless killing in it, with blood all over the place and eyeballs in a jar (yuk).

Bravo to LMA for organizing such an event and providing us some visual treats. We should look forward to next FiLUMS with new arrivals including ....Gaamaa, Phajja and Pappu :p