'What's love got to do with it?' leaves Jemima's sons teary after premiere

Their reaction has been the highlight of my whole experience.

LAHORE (Dunya News) - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s sons were left teary after watching the special premiere of the upcoming movie “What’s love got to do with it?” produced by their mother Jemima Khan. 

The movie is a cross-cultural romantic comedy that Jemima has produced with an intention to portray a different and better side of Pakistan instead of the one being often perceived by the west. 

In an interview, Jemima said she showed the movie to her sons Kasim Khan and Sulaiman Khan who she expected to be her “biggest critics". Ms Khan said "their reaction has been the highlight of my whole experience because they are not rom-com lovers and don’t like those kinds of films and they are my biggest critics. Obviously, they are half-Pakistani Muslim kids, so whether they liked it or not was very very important to me,” she added. 

Jemima further said, "I got them to see the film and at the end of it, I could see them being like a little tearful and I also heard them laughing and they said ‘amma we’re so proud of you’. “And I think, they knew how hard I had worked at it. I literally thought, oh well, even if no one likes it, this is the moment I’m proud of,” she added.

Jemima shared that one of the best things that she learnt in Pakistan was to develop faith in “niyat” (intention) and she hopes that Pakistanis will judge her film through her intentions that are aimed at portraying them [Pakistanis] as “normal people and not scary creatures”.