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Sawal 700 Crore Dollar Ka is total entertainment, promises director Jan Mohammad

Sawal 700 Crore Dollar Ka is total entertainment, promises director Jan Mohammad

He hopes that Pakistani films get an exclusive run on Eid this year
Updated 01 Jun, 2016

A successful film is the result of good coordination between its director and producer, and that’s what’s different about our movie. This was stated by film actor Ghulam Mohiuddin while informing journalists at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday evening on the film Sawal 700 Crore Dollar Ka in which his son Ali Mohiuddin plays the male lead.

Mohiuddin first talked about director Jan Mohammad whose son Jamshed Jan Mohammad has directed the film. He said Jan Mohammad belonged to a proud chapter in the history of Pakistani cinema. He said in his time technology hadn’t taken over the way it had today, but his son Jamshed had used technology to the fullest which the audience would be able to appreciate.

He said he in his career had worked in 300 films and had noticed that 90 per cent of the time, director and producer developed differences in the first spell of shooting. But, he claimed, Jamshed and producer Shahid Qureshi had great coordination. He said both were a nice addition to the film industry.

Mohiuddin said competition was a healthy thing because it brought favourable results. However, he said, we should promote Pakistani films being released on Eid day as Indian films, too, were screened on the occasion. He said the media’s support had shown that in recent times Pakistani movies had fared better at the box office than their Indian counterparts. He said these days the media support played an important part in such a competition.


‘Competition is good, injustice isn’t’


Mohiuddin said some people were of the opinion that actors (Javed Sheikh, Behroz Sabzwari etc) had their monopoly on the field of acting by introducing their sons and daughters, but in his son’s case it was Jamshed who saw him (Ali) at a wedding reception and decided to cast him in the film.

Jamshed Jan Mohammad said the film was being released on Eid. He said a few years back the government had announced that on Eid Pakistani films would be given priority, which happened for a year or so and foreign films again took over. He said competition was good but we should make sure that there’s no injustice. He said in China, 70 percent space was allotted for Chinese films. He said giving priority to Pakistani films would mean that our revenue would remain in our country.

Actress Qurutulain, who is playing the female lead in Sawal 700 Crore Dollar Ka, echoed the director’s sentiments and urged that Pakistani films should be our priority. She also requested the media to support newcomers.

Ali Mohiuddin said the film was different and made on a big scale.

When asked about the central idea of the story, Jamshed said he couldn’t give it away. All he could say was that it’s ‘total entertainment’.

Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2016

Comments

KB Jun 01, 2016 10:02am
All the very best our movies. Trailer looks good. Keep up the hard work.
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Akki Jun 01, 2016 10:03am
Copy of Hindi movie, 1:40 ki last local.
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irfan Jun 01, 2016 10:05am
such Indian copied films are made in past also and have badly flopped due to poor script....... such films don't portray real Pakistani culture....
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ahmad Jun 01, 2016 10:16am
yet another male copy of a Indian Masala films
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SK Jun 01, 2016 10:30am
It will be Sultan for me this Eid
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Rehan Jun 01, 2016 11:36am
Honestly, there are only a couple of glimpses that are good. Going purely by this preview/trailer I would not go for the movie without reliable sources giving it a positive review. Javed Sheikh sahab I expect you to be doing better movie. I regard him to be an actor who belongs to the category of India's Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Om Puri and to some extent like Boman Irani. Dont expect him to be part of such flicks.
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Hassan Jun 01, 2016 11:43am
Indian movies r the copy of Hollywood, and rest anyone who follows hollywood would ultimately following Bollywood as well, so its all one when it comes to Subcontinent, a formula delivered results are adopted by all. nothing new, and the song at the end of the trailer sounds like an advertisement jingle. nice try. but its a long long long way to go, the way we have a well developed television industry we have to invest, experiment and reinvent the wheel.
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Aamer Jun 01, 2016 11:50am
Definitely worth watching. Pakistani Cinema has come a long way.
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srimanta majumdar Jun 01, 2016 12:06pm
this is a movie trailer looks more like cartoon. Even indian shaktiman can do better stunts than this guy.
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kash Jun 01, 2016 12:22pm
poor fx of car window blowout
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SAAD Jun 01, 2016 12:53pm
BAD GRAPHICS; NO STORY, TRASH.
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adil Jun 01, 2016 03:46pm
very bad.... showing freemasons sign, vodka etc in this movie I don't know where Pakistani Cinema is going
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srinath Jun 01, 2016 04:41pm
trailer looks like a trailer of some 1980's hindi serial.. :p .. guys make realistic movies., editing was poor.
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Ehsan Jun 02, 2016 04:06am
How can everyone start commenting about copying, after such a short clip. Seems like it has become a fashion to make such comments, which later turn out to be inaccurate
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Ahmad Jun 02, 2016 10:57am
True no Indian movies on eid atleast they release after a week later
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Ahmad Jun 02, 2016 10:59am
And we at least support our own movies like Indian not even ollowed to release our movies in their country
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someone Jun 04, 2016 01:46am
@irfan yes I wonder why Pakistanis do not make Pakistani cultural movies like Gandassa, Gujjar, Gujjar ka Gandasa etc. any more?
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