Pakistani cinema is dead, poisoned by cultural atrophy and stabbed by official incompetence. We can analyze this pathetic condition by keeping in view that 20 years back about 100 movies were shooting but presently this amount is reduced to twenty and most of them are flop. This catastrophic condition is an unbearable threat to the film studios as well, said the in- charge of Baari Studios Lahore Mr. Mohammad Razzaq.
He blamed that Decline of Pakistani cinema indicates the general neglect of arts in Pakistan.
Over the decades, state role in Pakistan has been more restrictive than promotional for the film industry". The condition of film studios here has been getting worse over the years. And same is the case with Asia's biggest film studio "Baari Studios". Baari studio is spread over the area of 100 canals having 10 floors in it. The owners have commercialized the parking lots of the studio for people visiting nearby markets, to generate some extra income because of constantly falling revenues. They have built shops on the front and rented them for different purposes. A floor of the studio is hired by Nawa-e-Waqt group of newspapers, and they are using it as a go-down. The employees of the studio who are earning their livelihood in film industry are having bad times so they are trying to swap their profession.
Who is to be blamed for that? Government? The film makers? Or the audience who has accepted that 'respectable' people don't go to cinema houses to watch Pakistani movies.
He blamed that Decline of Pakistani cinema indicates the general neglect of arts in Pakistan.
Over the decades, state role in Pakistan has been more restrictive than promotional for the film industry". The condition of film studios here has been getting worse over the years. And same is the case with Asia's biggest film studio "Baari Studios". Baari studio is spread over the area of 100 canals having 10 floors in it. The owners have commercialized the parking lots of the studio for people visiting nearby markets, to generate some extra income because of constantly falling revenues. They have built shops on the front and rented them for different purposes. A floor of the studio is hired by Nawa-e-Waqt group of newspapers, and they are using it as a go-down. The employees of the studio who are earning their livelihood in film industry are having bad times so they are trying to swap their profession.
Who is to be blamed for that? Government? The film makers? Or the audience who has accepted that 'respectable' people don't go to cinema houses to watch Pakistani movies.
