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In 2024, filmmakers from and of Pakistan hit the ground running as a number of films were released including Wakhri, Chikkar and Gunjal among others. 2022’s blockbuster, The Legend of Maula Jatt is now available with English subtitles and people are still enchanted by the Punjabi blockbuster. However, several local films are set to release in the coming months. Can you identify the films that will feature enough star power to entice audiences to return to cinema for a local film?.
1. The reluctant superstar, Fawad Khan confessed to Instep before the
release of The Legend of Maula Jatt that the former wasn’t a saga purely based on him and Mahira Khan except for some key moments. He was right. However, in the coming months, which film will reunite the two actors, again?
A) Humsafar Returns
B) The Legend of Maula Jatt and Mukkho Jatti
C) Neelofar
D) None of the above
3. Which film did Mahira Khan refuse to sign because she was committed to
another film?
A) Kamli by director
Sarmad Khoosat
B) Ghabrana Nahi Hai
by director Saqib Khan
C) London Nahi Jaunga
by director Nadeem Baig
D) All of the above
2. An upcoming Pakistani film is based on a former cricketer who also featured in the debut edition of Indian Premier League (2008) before a ban was placed on selecting any Pakistani cricketer?
A) Sohail Tanvir
– Rajasthan Royals
B) Shahid Afridi
– Deccan Chargers
C) Shoaib Akhtar
– Kolkata Knight Riders
D) Misbah ul Haq
– Royal Challengers
Bangalore
4. Which high profile
filmmaker is not a part of the star-studded Pakistani Academy Selection
Committee?
A) Bilal Lashari
B) Saim Sadiq
C) Mehreen Jabbar
D) Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Answers
1. C) The right answer is Neelofar, a film that will feature Mahira Khan and Fawad Khan as protagonists. The latter is also producing the film.
2. C) You might have thought that the cricketer in question is Shahid Afridi, who is not a part of the national team but makes people tune in whenever he is playing a Twenty20 league match from Australia to the Caribbean. But you’d be wrong. The cricketer in question is Shoaib Akhtar, who played for Shah Rukh Khan-owned Kolkata Knight Riders and during his heydays was known as Rawalpindi Express, a bowling sensation. The film on Akhtar is set to be a biopic called Rawalpindi Express, slated to release in 2024, tentatively speaking.
3. A) Kamli by director Sarmad Khoosat where Mahira Khan was Mr. Khoosat’s first choice but since she was committed to Neelofar, he went with Saba Qamar and in retrospect, we can’t imagine anyone but Saba Qamar in the lead role.
4. D) Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (SOC) because she headed the committee for a decade and as a committee of new members was announced, SOC made way for Mohammed Ali Naqvi as the new Chairman of Pakistani Academy Selection Committee.
