Cinema and cricket serve as a uniting platform for people from the South Asian subcontinent and Pakistani film Main Hoon Shahid Afridi, which is based on cricket, released in the UAE on Thursday.
The cast and crew
of this film Javed Sheikh, Humayun Saeed, Hamza Abbasi, Mathira, Shahzad Nasib,
Noman Habib and Gohar Rasheed visited the Khaleej Times office on Thursday
evening to talk about their movie.
“We do not make a
lot of films in Pakistan, especially a sports film. People questioned us
initially as to why we are making a sports film and not some entertaining
romantic film but we were confident about our subject and hence decided to go
ahead with this project,” said lead actor Humayun.
The film comes to
the UAE post its August 2013 release in Pakistan. “We should have released the
film in 2013 but as a team, it was a learning process for us. Our distributors
told us that there is still demand for this film so we are excited to bring
this film for our Indian and Pakistani friends in the UAE,” added Humayun, who
is also a co-producer for this film.
The film premiered
in the UAE at the Grand Cineplex on
Thursday, as organised by Dream Advertising.
Javed Sheikh spoke
about the emerging market of Pakistani
film industry. “It is growing day by day. Starting last year, we had three
great films that came out. There was Zinda Bhaag (2013). Even though it was a
Pakistani film, Naseeruddin Shah played an important role in the film. A lot of
Pakistani artists work in Indian films, including myself, so it was good to see
an Indian actor working in our film. Waar (2013) changed the scenario for us;
it broke all previous records at the box office. There is a new cinema coming
up and making good films. There are 50 films in the pipeline right now with
bright new talents and infrastructure.”
Artcile By : Arti
Dani (Khaleej Times)
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