There’s not much of a pipeline of international films and the problems of Pakistan’s film industry remain.
If the return of Pakistani cinema houses had a trailer, it would sound like this: “This summer, Pakistani cinema will be saved by one film:
Fast and the Furious 9 (F9).”
By the time you read this, cinema owners would be warming up their projectors and dusting off their carpets to welcome audiences. So yeah, this is a time of great joy…just don’t pop the party-poppers yet.
Say what you will, the filmmaking community — especially distributors, producers and exhibitors — is tenacious. Ever since the pandemic and its subsequent restrictions shuttered movie screens, everyone has been relying on