Pak top actor-producer Faysal Quraishi backs for release of Indian films to revive local cinema exhibition sector.
Pakistan’s one of the top
actor-producers Faysal Quraishi, has backed for release of Indian films in the country to revive the local cinema exhibition sector.
Apart featuring in several hit serials and produced many
blockbuster series, Pakistan’s
Faysal Quraishi advocated the
need to lift the ban on screening of Indian films to survive and grow.
As a Pakistani, he feels very patriotic. But if you have to run Pakistani cinemas, it’s important that you exhibit Indian films. He is being very selfish.
In an interview he stated that he knows that the audience in Pakistan wants to watch Indian films. You can’t enforce your will on them. Work to improve relations.
Since late 2019, there has been a complete ban on screening of Indian films in cinema houses in Pakistan, but movie buffs can easily watch these movies on different streaming platforms like Netflix and Prime Video, which are legal, and even others which are accessible through VPN services.
If there was no ban on Indian films in Pakistan, Faysal Quraishi said the Pakistan film drama industry would have been earning around Rs 6,000 to 7,000 million annually from the entertainment business, including screening of Pakistani content on Indian streaming portals and some channels.
He further added that their movies and serials were being shown on their online portals and people went to the cinemas as well to watch Indian films, and it brought in valuable revenue for our industry.
It is funny we tend to shut down our avenues of revenue,” he said.
Quraishi also said he had come to the conclusion that until Indian films were allowed to be screened in Pakistani cinemas its industry could not grow.
He concluded that people need new and exciting content to attract them to the cinemas and for that not only do we need to improve our content and business models but also have no ban on screening of Indian movies. This would also reopen our content on streaming portals.
Pakistan entertainment industry can be revived and it was necessary for Pakistani content to be shown on streaming portals.
It is time they started producing content of such a level that they can even hit the international streaming platforms.
News Edit K.V.Raman
