Khuda ke Liye...

I am not talking about the movie khuda ke liye but for the whole pakistan cinema that "khuda ke liye" do something about it. We are witnessing the worst phase of our cinema with audience like rikshaw drivers, panshop owner or cutting the chase we are catering illetrate people.Our cinema industry says that we are competing the indian cinema but on ground realities we are atleast twenty years behind them. They are making movies like black, rang de basanti, taare zameem par and what are you making humayeun gujjar or wahishi badmash which have no story no nothing except meaningless fights and vulgar dance. Now adays movie has gone beyond the definition of entertainment, you can raise social issues, political problems or anything that has a meaning or value attached to it but our movies are not even fulfilling the basic definition of movie which is entertainment but they are just three hours of nonsense with some dances and dialogues that keep our lower class paying twenty or thirty ruppe of ticket to witness our mockery of cinema. From the decades we have very few producers, directors and above all storywriters who are working in this industry to only make money but not good movie. Those people have made movie on almost every cast present in Pakistan but not a single movie on any cause or better issue.Sometimes i feel that they are not only to be blamed but our government and ministry have equal responsibility they had not given any incentive or taken any action to improve it. They need to work on it on emergency basis but they are doing opposite and have left the industry on his own.Then there is another debate that fifteen years back we were equal to indian movies but i dot agree, even that time they were making alot better cinema. Yes if they say thirty years then i would agree when we had actors like waheed murad, muhammad ali,zeba and list goes on. We need to rethink that what had went wrong when we had a good history a good audience few good people in industry than why are we facing this cinema. What has indian cinema done right or where they had excelled and why we are left out until these questions are answered we can never prosperous like them.Using this forum I want to appreciate shoaib mansoor here who come up with a brand new idea with even better execution. The idea which is now adays followed by many other directors even across the boarders. He made a movie which bought people back to cinemas, he just picked the right idea and found a better team. All the major crew was from Pakistan so we need to see that if they can come up with a project like khuda ke liye than why not others. We need few more like him and i think we will be back on track and secondly we need sponsors like geo group to believe in them and help them make it. Then the responsibility also comes on us, we also need to support them, this blame game will never end we have to appreciate what they are doing because atleast they are keeping us in business and have kept our industry live. We have to consider it as an industry and give respect to everyone involved with it. Once we do it , our cinema will start growing itself.

Written By: Ahmad Saeed