Anwar Maqsood and Dawar Mahmood announce Aangan Terha prequel
KopyKats Productions' new project is a prequel to their earlier play Aangan Terha.
This was announced at a press conference in Karachi earlier today, where writer Anwar Maqsood, director Dawar Mehmood, actor Yasir Hussain and Karachi Arts Council President Ahmed Shah talked about how this new production titled Naach Na Jaaney came to be.
Anwar Maqsood shared, "The director of this play was after my life for years to come up with a part two for [Aangan Terha], which I said was impossible. So we decided to do one thing... instead of making a sequel for this story we made a prequel, and started [lead character] Akbar’s story from 1978 when Zia-ul-Haq came into power and banned dance and music in the country. So we will start Akbar’s story from there... [and show why] a classical dancer came to Aangan Terha to cook food. The story is based on the 10 years that Zia was in power."
The play Aangan Terha was based on the '80s PTV hit that starred Shakeel, Arshad Mehmud, Durdana Butt and Bushra Ansari. The prequel will be the Art Council Karachi’s first production.