Abu Aleeha is right now the most successful film director of Pakistan. He has made several films like Taxali Gate, Super Punjabi and Javed Iqbal. He knows how to make a film on a small budget and his films have largely been financially successful. The director was a guest on The Wire podcast and spoke about the future and past of the film industry in Pakistan.
He spoke about the ban on Indian films and how it has affected the cinemas. He said that banning Indian films stopped footfalls from coming to cinemas which was a bad decision for our industry. He also shared that it is not actually the Pakistani government that banned Bollywood films but the other way around.
Abu Aleeha said that Indians stopped taking any distributors for Bollywood films in Pakistan and it is them who did not want to release any work here. He added that they banned Pakistani artists and talent from working in India and we just stopped releasing Bollywood films as a counter measure.
This is what he shared:
