Through eleven iridescent essays, 'Love, War and Other Longings' focuses on the functions of cinema in the national context while avoiding the tired debate on 'death' and 'revival' of Pakistani film.
GWADAR: When he drives his rickshaw past the yellow Taj Mahal Talkies building, Ali Muhammad can never resist stopping to recall how he used to paste posters of Pakistani blockbusters on its walls. Opened in 1973, the cinema was one of only two in Gwadar a fishing town of 50,000 people in Balochistan, an impoverished province of southwestern Pakistan, which is now a key