00:00The eyeballs have shifted. They are looking like, so it's outward in, you know, they're
00:06looking at us. What we need to do is just make consistent, good films.
00:14To the global stage, I'd say it's, it's so much of us is already there. You know, we talk about
00:22like, how COVID affected us, which it did. But I think we, it's so interesting, whether it's
00:28our music scene, whether it's our actors going and, and doing all these Hollywood projects,
00:35whether it is Joyland winning at Cannes. I mean, these are pretty big things that have happened
00:43for the Pakistan film industry, right? Or just the Pakistan art scene, I feel, right? The eyeballs
00:50have shifted, they are looking like, so it's outward in, you know, they're looking at us.
00:57What we need to do is just make consistent, good films. You've seen films, yes, and we have been
01:04going. But we haven't really, you know, at least for this market has not gone to see a Pakistani
01:10film off late. So I think that'll be interesting, because it has its own flavor. He's the cop, but
01:17I have the danda in my hand. She's the catalyst. I think you need people who care about you.
01:24So it could be a woman or a man. No, in fact, in this, I'd say it's a man and a woman.
01:30So it's, it's, it's his father and, and a woman. So it's, it's people who care about you, you know,
01:38there are people who will tell you or, or try to knock sense into you.
01:42My inspiration is more towards Rajinikanth sir, because I am his fan. And I saw his film lately,
01:49his cop film, if you've seen it. And we discussed that. And I told Nabeel, you know,
01:52see, the premise is pretty much the same. And but the nuances that he has the kind of, you know,
01:57act he has, he's like a God on the screen, you know. So the inspiration was definitely from
02:02there. But, but the plot of the film is so different. You see, each cop has to has a
02:06different story to tell. Otherwise, it's just another film. So I think this will only, of
02:12course, I'm playing the cop. So I'm not saying that the cop is not good enough. But the story
02:17is, I think, even better. And since it's a new thing, so I think, across the world, people will
02:21see something, something interesting, something new.
02:24Yeah, the story is very unique. It is unthinkable.
02:29Back in Pakistan, I see films, it's not about money when it comes to films, you know,
02:34it has to be passion. For me, it's not.
02:37Yeah. For, I think,
02:39I think all the actors were doing movies in Pakistan, at least they're not in it for money.
02:43Yeah, neither are makers, because it's a very small industry.
02:46So we have become a filmmaker out of pure passion.
02:50Yeah, we are making movies just to build an audience in Pakistan and internationally.
02:56See, it's our movies because, because of these movies, we were able to make a lot of cinemas
03:01in Pakistan. We hardly had screens. When we started, we released our first film, Na Malum,
03:05we hardly had like 60 screens. And then later, when we were releasing our fourth, fifth film,
03:11we had like over 150 screens. So I think that was the kind of, you see,
03:15progress we saw just because of the films that we were making.
03:18And you will be surprised, with 150 screens, we were making around like, you know,
03:2450 to 60 crores box office.
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