My concern is more towards our dogmatic/copy-cat film makers rather than commenting on this movie. 'Shah' is a positive effort towards projecting Pakistan's good image & its fine BUT...
Our directors/film-makers need to come out of media based movies. Every 2nd film carries the story of media, film industry, news channels (what the hell). We need to learn that showbiz industry would be less than 1% in our country and you are making every film on that community. Come'on there are millions of other topics in the world yar. Look at the bogus media/showbiz involvement in these movies (that i have seen only)...SHAH (media, news channel), LAHORE SE AGY (actress is rock star, film-ind.), ACTOR IN LAW (hero wants to become an actor,film-ind.), ZINDAGI KITNI HASEEN HAI (hero wants to become a story writer, film-ind.), ISHQ POSITIVE (actress wants to become drama artist, film-ind.), AKSBANDH (found footage of film- makers), BOL (media), WRONG NO (hero wants to be an actor, again film- industry), HO MAN JAHAN (passionate about music, showbiz), MANTO (writer, showbiz story, media), MAHEMIR (poet, poetry, showbiz)...
Another common thing is the competition of making CHEAPEST MOVIE among our film-makers. Budget of every new release seems less than the previous. Perhaps we want to set an example for Hollywood or wish to get registered in Guinness world record for making World's Cheapest/Most Economical Movie. My point is we should do something new. New Locations (northern areas, cities other than Karachi), New Stories (of a common man not an actor, director, poet, media person please...), New stuff...in short something new for the people.
Our directors/film-makers need to come out of media based movies. Every 2nd film carries the story of media, film industry, news channels (what the hell). We need to learn that showbiz industry would be less than 1% in our country and you are making every film on that community. Come'on there are millions of other topics in the world yar. Look at the bogus media/showbiz involvement in these movies (that i have seen only)...SHAH (media, news channel), LAHORE SE AGY (actress is rock star, film-ind.), ACTOR IN LAW (hero wants to become an actor,film-ind.), ZINDAGI KITNI HASEEN HAI (hero wants to become a story writer, film-ind.), ISHQ POSITIVE (actress wants to become drama artist, film-ind.), AKSBANDH (found footage of film- makers), BOL (media), WRONG NO (hero wants to be an actor, again film- industry), HO MAN JAHAN (passionate about music, showbiz), MANTO (writer, showbiz story, media), MAHEMIR (poet, poetry, showbiz)...
Another common thing is the competition of making CHEAPEST MOVIE among our film-makers. Budget of every new release seems less than the previous. Perhaps we want to set an example for Hollywood or wish to get registered in Guinness world record for making World's Cheapest/Most Economical Movie. My point is we should do something new. New Locations (northern areas, cities other than Karachi), New Stories (of a common man not an actor, director, poet, media person please...), New stuff...in short something new for the people.