Is Pakistani cinema moving towards waste? This is a question that is coming up fast these days. Due to poor relations with India, Pakistan is suffering a lot of damage and the biggest cultural loss in this has been caused by cinema. Pakistani cinema is ending. Reports say that about 40 percent of the screens have been closed in Pakistan since 2018.
While Pakistan is collecting accolades of everyone in the case of TV drama, there is a lot of shortage in the case of cinema and pictures. The news is coming out that there are locks on theaters very fast in Pakistan. After all, why this is happening, let's know.
The print According to a news of a report, the film distributor Nadeem Mandaviwala said in a conversation that so far 58 screens of about 36 theaters have been closed in Pakistan. At the same time, 9 screens have been closed to Temporary. Talking about the reasons behind this, lack of good content, lack of budget and changing preferences of people are a big reason. One big reason is that the market is not left for Pakistani cinema.
Shahzad Rafiq, head of the Pakistan Film Federation, spoke openly on the matter. He told that to keep cinema to stay railways, it is necessary that good content is being made. Due to the lack of economic constraints and good scripts, neither films are being made nor people are going to see it. The content that is being made is not related to the middle class and the makers are not able to wure the elite class. In such a situation, people are not going to watch movies.
According to the news of Al Jazeera, the Pakistani film industry, known as Lollywood, was almost abolished during dictatorship in 1980. Many new sensorship laws were brought, due to which the ban on cinema became a ban. The industry, which once made more than 80 films annually at a time, stopped releasing Urdu films at the end of the century. But a Revolution began in 2003, when young film makers emerged in Karachi. He started doing new types of experiments, and gradually the car started coming on track again.
However, in 2006, Bollywood films were removed from Pakistan. Then came the year 2015 and the film Bajrangi Bhaijaan released in Pakistan. This film created a ruckus in Pakistan. The appeal of this film and the message of love between the two countries won the hearts of the people of Pakistan. Fan following of Salman Khan and the rest of Bollywood celebrities started growing there and gradually, Bollywood crazy people started getting crazy. After this, films like Sanju, Gali Boy, Kaabil and Simba hoisted new flags of success. Even after this, the process of ban and release continued, but Indian films continued to win the hearts of people in Pakistan.
After the Pulwama terror attack in 2019, India refused to release films in Pakistan, due to which people stopped going to theater. By 2019, Pakistani films were occupied by 50% market in the country and it was expected to grow gradually, but after 2019 this hope also stopped.
By 2019, Pakistani films occupied 50% market in the country and it was expected to grow gradually. Talking about Pakistani films, the last time i.e. in the theater in the year 2022, Fawad Khan's film 'The Legend of Maula Jatt' came and it was a game changer. The film had earned a lot of strong money. But even after three years, no such film has come up yet which can eliminate this drought.
