Back in 2007 a British-Pakistani friend strongly recommended the film Khuda Ke Liye, which she watched with us. Having never seen a Lollywood film before, I recall being impressed with the production values, acting, music and concept. Now years on with the export of so many great Pakistani singers to Bollywood (Adnan Sami, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Atif Aslam) it was only natural to be watching a film where I’d seen the director’s first film and in which singer Atif Aslam makes his acting debut.
Bol (Speak up) is the second film written and directed by Shoaib Mansoor and has done extremely well in Pakistan. Like his first film, this is also a social commentary, which looks to reflect a slice of society, as well as challenge it.
Based in Lahore, it takes place in the house of a family of young girls and highlights the challenges and confrontations they have with their father,...
Bol (Speak up) is the second film written and directed by Shoaib Mansoor and has done extremely well in Pakistan. Like his first film, this is also a social commentary, which looks to reflect a slice of society, as well as challenge it.
Based in Lahore, it takes place in the house of a family of young girls and highlights the challenges and confrontations they have with their father,...
- 8/31/2011
- by Anjum Shabbir
- Bollyspice
“You cannot really reprehend mediocrity, you can only regret it. But you can and must condemn the gifted filmmaker who has it in him to combine artistic integrity with a consciousness of dual responsibility to the viewing public and to the man who backs him but who yet keeps postponing the great film ….and yet compromise just this little , just this once” –Satyajit Ray
Stating the obvious, not many Pakistani films get to be exhibited on silver screens in India. Stating the even more obvious, these are bad times for local cinema in Pakistan. The annual output of films made in Pakistan has dropped from 59 films produced in 2001 to a mere 14 in the previous year. And it’s no secret that not many of these films are trailblazers. The sporadic exhibition of lackluster films has made us (west side of the Wagha divide) effectively numb and apathetic when it comes...
Stating the obvious, not many Pakistani films get to be exhibited on silver screens in India. Stating the even more obvious, these are bad times for local cinema in Pakistan. The annual output of films made in Pakistan has dropped from 59 films produced in 2001 to a mere 14 in the previous year. And it’s no secret that not many of these films are trailblazers. The sporadic exhibition of lackluster films has made us (west side of the Wagha divide) effectively numb and apathetic when it comes...
- 8/30/2011
- by Zia Ahmad
- DearCinema.com
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