Summary However; if it doesn't happen then the ongoing investment in cinema will be ceased.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Former chairman of Sindh Film Censor Board Fakhr-e-Alam has said that Indian films have to be screened in Pakistan to save the contemporary cinema industry.
However; if it doesn’t happen then the ongoing investment in cinema will be ceased.
“The cinemas which have been constructed spending billions of rupees cannot gain success with only the local productions,” he suggested while talking exclusively to Dunya correspondent.
He said that the newcomers are making fine movies whereas film industry should be promoted by making more and more movies.
Talking about his home production, he said that he will give good news related to it in January 2017.
“Film making is a difficult phase. The artists also have to come forward for the well-being of their film industry,” he pronounced.
Tensions between India and Pakistan have soared since grenade-hurling militants raided India’s Uri army base near the de-facto border dividing Kashmir on September 18 in the worst such attack for years.
Following the raid, the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association, which represents a number of Hindi film industry employees, passed a motion banning Pakistani artists until relations improve.
Pakistan’s Film Exhibitors and Distributors group responded by suspending the screening of all Indian films "until normalcy returns".
Pakistan’s state-run media authorityalso banned all Indian content from television and radio networks. It threatened to suspend the licences of any station caught flouting the ban.
