Pakistani stars Mahira Khan and Fahad Mustafa talk about their new movie ‘Quaid-E-Azam Zindabad’

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For the first time in their careers, A-listers Mahira Khan and Fahad Mustafa will unite for a glossy action drama ‘Quaid-E-Azam Zindabad’. It’s a story of a cheeky cop Gulab, played by the leading man Mustafa. Gulab meets the woman of his dream Jia (played by Khan) and decides to mend his ways.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/pakistani-cinema/10-things-to-know-about-pakistani-actors-mahira-khan-and-fahad-mustafas-quaid-e-azam-zindabad-1.89130403  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #pakistan #mahirakhan

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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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