If you’re tired of tuning into TV for desi entertainment, the web is all set to offer you off-beat Pakistani short films, mockumentaries and web-series.
Design by Saad Arifi
Necessity may be the mother of invention but not in Pakistan’s entertainment industry. Despite decades of crippling slumps, we seem to have few ideas about how to do things differently. We love to rehash and rebrand sparkless ideas, only to later complain about our inherent lack of potential.
Back in a 2017 issue of Icon (Cinema with Ideas, May 21), I had spoken to filmmakers Asim Raza, Jami and Hasan Waqas Rana on the need for high concept ideas in film, and why they seemed like an unattainable goal. I’ve asked the same question many times since.
March 14, 2021
Innovative Biscuits’ recently-launched digital platform Digestive Showtime gets the ball rolling with its first release, Yorker, a short film that aims to amuse while holding a mirror to society
Yorker☆☆☆
Direction: Ahsan Rahim and Syed Nini
Innovative Biscuits’ recently-launched digital platform Digestive Showtime gets the ball rolling with its first release,
Yorker, a short film that aims to amuse while holding a mirror to society. The superiority associated with the English language and our collective tendency to mock those who are unable to master it is the theme of this 24-minutes-long episode.
Actor Wahaj Ali stars as the hapless protagonist whose imperfect English lands him in an unexpected mess.