Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 4 2009, 3:43 PM
hahaheheeheehhahaha....we don't need industry..they make all movies in Urdu,...but wost thing in movies now...is day by day increase in nudity...they are not making classics any more...like long time ago...
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 4 2009, 8:56 PM
this gayCREEK... doesnt know that THE MOST FAMOUS ACTORS IN BOLLYWOOD f***king indian chicks are pakis, lol... Like Shah Rukh Khan and Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan), lol!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 4:17 AM
Moslems aren't creative enough to make good films. There are probably Sharia laws against women appearing in films made in Moslem nations without wearing a BURKA, anyway.
Stupid, phucking, dumb, ignorant mouth-breathing, Islamic monkey phuckers. You add NOTHING to world culture, you're a cultural Black Hole. All Moslems add to the world is untold violence, mostly out of rage because they know in the scale of the world they're CHIT! Go blow yourselves up, you ass licking, mosque monkeys!
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 5:33 AM
Uh huh. Aren't you folks called "Chit Hands" for your practice of wiping that pathetic hole with your right hand? Do you lick it when you get done, or just wipe it on your pants, Zeb Head?
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 7:21 AM
^^ Wats so fun watching a hippopotamus wearing a bikini and dancing mujra?
didnt you guys just get a submarine like in 2009 ROFLOL!!! go and celebrate there kid.
"this gayCREEK... doesnt know that THE MOST FAMOUS ACTORS IN BOLLYWOOD f***king indian chicks are pakis, lol... Like Shah Rukh Khan and Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan), lol!!!!!!!!!!!"
This Shuja Khans and his stupidity is astounding. Shah Rukh Khan and Dilip Kumar are phuckistanis? LOL!!! Shoo away cave donkey, predator has honed in your arse.
phuckistanis have nothing to call their own, in their desperation they are calling Indian actors as phuckistanis because their own actors are a pile of ****.
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 4:41 PM
Pakistan theater owners say only Indian films can save their industry!!!
Pakistan's dilemma - Bollywood or bust?
By Usman Ghafoor
Lahore, Pakistan
Producers say there aren't enough films to keep cinemas going
Powerful figures in the Pakistan film industry are desperately trying to step up pressure on the government to allow screening of Indian movies in Pakistan.
They say this is the only way the country's comatose film industry can be revived.
The ban was imposed after the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965.
"The local film industry has proven itself to be completely unable to meet the demands of the local market," says studio owner and producer Shahzad Gul.
Mr Gul is one of the few producers who still comes up with an occasional hit.
The Film Producers Association (FPA) and the Cinema Owners Association (CAO) have been repeatedly requesting a meeting with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to press home the urgency of allowing local screening of Indian fare.
However, their last request was turned down recently on the grounds that this may not be the right time to raise the issue.
To some extent, the industry's urgency is driven by the possible release later this year of Indian epic Moghul-e-Azam.
Connections
Pakistan's information minister Sheikh Rashid told BBC News website that the government had given the "green light" to distributors for bringing Moghul-e-Azam to Pakistan.
Gul: "Local industry cannot meet popular demand"
He said a letter to the effect has been sent to Akbar Asif - the late producer's son who currently holds its screening rights.
"We have not yet decided the release date," he said.
"There are many things we need to look into before going ahead with it."
Pakistani film makers are looking to use this as a precedent to secure permission for bringing in other, newer movies.
"Mughal-e-Azam's screening has been allowed due to the personal efforts and influence of Akbar Asif," says CAO chairman Zoraiz Lashari.
"This won't change the situation in general."
'Bollywood-isation'
Cinemas are being converted into shopping malls
Industry watchers say the stake holders need to get their own act together before they can change the government's mind.
Some within the industry have for long argued that opening up Pakistani cinemas to Indian movies will result in a "complete Bollywood-isation" of Pakistan.
"Hasn't it already?" counters Shahzad Gul.
"Bollywood has already invaded our homes. Our cable networks air Indian films the very day they are released in India. Besides, we have easy access to all kinds of CDs and DVDs."
Mr Gul and others who support his contention point to the situation on the ground.
Pakistan had 1,300 cinema halls in the 1970s, feasting on an average annual production of around 300 movies.
In 2005, the CAO could count only 270 cinema halls across the country with most of the rest having been converted into gas stations, shopping malls or car showrooms.
Only 18 movies were produced in the country last year.
"It is not that we are particularly fond of Bollywood movies," says Zoraiz Lashari.
"But we must talk business. We need to feed the cinemas for 52 weeks a year and Pakistan is not producing enough. Our only survival is Indian movies, like it or not."
Hypocrisy
Hollywood isn't the answer either, he says. Besides being too expensive and running up against a language barrier, no Hollywood star can hope to command the following that the likes of Indian idols Aishwarya Rai or Shahrukh Khan do.
Those in the industry also point to the "hypocrisy" in Pakistan's policy. They argue that those well connected are already bringing in Indian movies.
Last month, select cinemas across Pakistan screened Bullet Ek Dhamaka, a movie featuring an all Indian cast. For the purposes of import, it was billed as a Bulgarian production.
Film makers say that the screening of Bullet has valuable lessons for Pakistan: despite having an Indian cast, it was a disaster at the box office.
"It shows that there is no reason to be scared of Bollywood," says Mr Lashari. "Not everything made in India ends up being a blockbuster."
Mr Gul proposes that if at all any controls are needed, the government can limit the number of movies imported to Pakistan under some kind of quota system.
Any kind of an import formula can be drawn up, they say. What is important is to recognise the fact that Pakistani cinema is all but dead.
And few are willing to argue that it can be revived without help from across the border.
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 4:43 PM
Paki films (such as they are, LOL) are freely available in India. Indian films however need special exemption to be shown in Pakistan. As usual the Moslems hide because they CAN'T COMPETE.
Pakistan to show Bollywood film
Poonam Dhillon (left) and Sunny Deol star in the film
A film from Bollywood's movie industry is to be screened in Pakistani cinemas - despite an official ban on Indian films lasting almost half a century.
Sohni Mahiwal - based on folklore popular in the Punjab region - has been given special exemption.
The Pakistan Film Producers Association said the move did not mean the overall ban on Indian films was being lifted.
Pakistan banned screenings of Indian films in 1965, when the countries fought the second of their three wars.
Legal battle
Pakistan Film Producers Association chairman Saeed Rizvi was widely quoted in the media as saying the 40-year ban was being lifted.
I filed seven petitions in Lahore High Court and twice approached the Supreme Court
Film distributor Ali Zafar
But he told the BBC News website he had been "wrongly interpreted" by other media organisations and had made no such suggestion.
"The ban has not been lifted from all Bollywood films but just this one," he said.
Mr Rizvi said the distributor of Sohni Mahiwal, a 1984 romance and Indo-Russian joint production, had approached Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for the waiver.
The film's distributor, Ali Zafar, said he had imported the film in 1989 and had fought a legal battle since then to screen the film in Pakistan.
"I filed seven petitions in Lahore High Court and twice approached the Supreme Court of Pakistan, which decided the case in my favour because the story was based on a Punjabi folklore," Mr Zafar told the AFP news agency.
Illicit copies
India's Hindi-language film industry, which includes Bombay's Bollywood movies, is the world's largest by viewership.
The lifting of the ban for one film is not part of a wider trend
Bollywood films, which typically feature exuberant song-and-dance routines, are watched by millions around the world.
The BBC's Zaffar Abbas in Islamabad says there is absolutely no suggestion that the government is considering lifting a ban on all Indian movies.
He says cinema owners in Pakistan are keen to screen Bollywood films, but the nation's filmmakers fear an influx of such films would destroy Pakistan's film industry and are therefore opposed to the ban being lifted.
Even during the ban - and despite the bitter rivalry between the neighbouring countries - Indian films are hugely popular in Pakistan and illicit copies are easy to find.
Pakistani producers are thought to have worked secretly in India for several years, sidestepping the government ban by purportedly going to visit family and friends but getting films edited and music composed in Bombay.
Pakistani cultural products are legal in India, where the country's poetry, songs and television dramas are widely popular.
A number of Pakistani poets and singers are superstars in India.
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 4:47 PM
Islam can't compete with the rest of the world on a level playing field, so they build economic 'walls' to prevent outside products from coming in. Banning Indian films while Pakistani films-what few they produce-are FREELY available in India!
Pakistani theater owners are BEGGING the government to allow Indian films, but they only allow it with massive bribes under the table. Once again Islam shows it can't compete with the freedom loving world!!!
Pakistan vs Bollywood
Posted January 24, 2006 to Pakistan category.
There was some mistaken rumbling about Pakistan unbanning Indian movies. Sadly, that is not so. The govt. has replaced the ban with a new system though, of sweet talking the dictator till he allows your film. Since this requires a great deal of sweet talking, that means very few movies will make it across the border. On the bright side, perhaps Musharraf will now spend more time talking to Aishwarya Rai and less on going on and on and on about dams.
However, the people took matters in their own hands a long time ago, and stopped going to the cinema when Indian movies were banned. They buy/rent pirated DVDs instead and everyone watches Indian films at home. Bollywood movies have more than 90% of the Pakistan market. Some things, like banning movies, are far beyond the reach of govt, even a dictatorship, so its just plain sad pathetic to see the govt. keep trying. Stalin did a bloody good job of baning stuff but even he failed at it.
The initial reason for banning Indian films was war. Pakistani soldiers were busy watching cinema so the govt. banned movies in an effort to get them to kill more people. Its a good thing video games didnt exist back then. Howver, times have changed, and now the official reason is that allowing Indian films will destroy Pakistani cinema. Govt. policies acheived that goal a long time ago, so no one really knows why the ban still exists. The old chestnuts about morality, ethics, hate for they neighbour, Islam, loss of advertising revenues etc. are all trotted out depending on the occasion. Every now and then the govt. issues various statements regarding Indian movies but those are ignored by all and sundry, including the govt. itself.
You know there are big problems when the good general has to be approached personally for simple things like playing a movie in a cinema:
With the decks cleared for the release of Sohni Mahiwal in Pakistan, all eyes are now on Mughal-e-Azam. President Pervez Musharraf had spoken to Akbar Asif, son of filmmaker K Asif, after he said he wanted to release the coloured version in Pakistan and donate the earnings to charity.
Sources said that approval of Mughal-e-Azam will come soon as Musharraf inspects the behind-the-scenes documentary of Mughal-e-Azam to check for the use of satanic verses and black magic - which is commonly used to ensare young naive Pakistani viewers over to the dark side.
I have no knowledge of any such decision, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said in response to all questions about Indian movies. That ably sums up the govt. view. on most things Indian.
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 5:53 PM
hahaheheeheehhahaha....we don't need industry..they make all movies in Urdu,...but wost thing in movies now...is day by day increase in nudity...they are not making classics any more...like long time ago...
hahhaha owned again how much ownage does this old greko want ROFL
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 7:34 PM
Dumb, DUMB, stupid phucking Paki's. Owned by India on the battlefield, and EVERY OTHER FIELD of endeavor.
Paki's secretly copying and selling Indian films. As for the films being in Urdu, naturally! The indians are clever enough to create films to CAPTURE your markets!
Moslems, ass raped no matter where you go in the world!!!
Re: India has Bollywood. What has Paki-stan got? Talibood??? LOL
September 5 2009, 7:57 PM
The germaine point being if not for Bollywood PAKI-stans theater business would be OUT OF BUSINESS. People want to be entertained and that's a naughty word to Moslems. Anything that smacks of enjoyment is automatically suspect to Sharia Law.