Indian Movie Dhoom-3 breaks Waar's Box Office Opening Record in Pakistan.

[INDIC]

waar could not possibly be success without bollywood. Its the craze of bollywood that led to investment in multiplexes and better cinema houses(when musharaf opened up pakistan). If people watch movie in cinemas, more directors will come forward to make movies and that starts a virtuous cycle.
Thank bollywood that you no longer have to watch punjabi 'sufi' movies
yes bollywood is not good enough for most people here, but rest of pakistan and India will watch it. (which is majority of hindi/urdu speaking people)

Pakistani movies are mostly gandasa culture of rural Punjab.

 

[Android]

Apni auqad main aa gaye

 

[shuntmaster]

What happened to all that baloney of Pakistanis in the waar thread saying that Pakistanis don't watch bollywood movies..??

 

[livingdead]

Pakistani movies are mostly gandasa culture of rural Punjab.

by sufi movies I meant exactly that, plus sized ladies shaking big booty..
movie theaters that has bebugs in seats, where women and children wont dare step into. No wonder most wated pirated cds.
Currently they can go and watch with family (well some bollywood movies are not for family) and spend lot of money for entertainment, which gives strengh to their own industry.
You cannot make commercial movies without a movie going culture, and pakistan is slowly getting that.

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

Its not a surprise because most of the pakistanis love bollywood movies.waar was start a new phase of movie culture in pakistan. Bollywood has been a long before and had produced few good movies in past which is why their movies earn more. Personally i dont watch bollywood movies because almost 90% of their movies are remake version of hollywood movies

hamesha ronde ho. . . .

 

[cleverrider]

In all seriousness.. Pakistanis have already lost the cultural war to two fronts. One to India, the other to Arabia.

Like Pakistan had any culture to begin with.

 

[kurup]

Anybody remember the dramabazi by Pakistanis when WAAR beat the Box Office opening record .

Wondering where they all are ?? ........

 

[INDIC]

by sufi movies I meant exactly that, plus sized ladies shaking big booty..
movie theaters that has bebugs in seats, where women and children wont dare step into. No wonder most wated pirated cds.
Currently they can go and watch with family (well some bollywood movies are not for family) and spend lot of money for entertainment, which gives strengh to their own industry.
You cannot make commercial movies without a movie going culture, and pakistan is slowly getting that.

I always LOLed when Pakistanis says our movies are vulgar. mujra which is considered as clean dance and art form in Bollywood ended up as vulgarity in Pakistan movies.

 

[livingdead]

Anybody remember the dramabazi by Pakistanis when WAAR beat the Box Office opening record .

Wondering where they all are ?? ........

There was one member who opened 2 to 3 threads, and made waar a social phenomena. It was potrayed as war of good vs evil (pakistan vs India) which pakistan finally won.
Lot of people made comment that this is a turning point, pakistan is going back to its sufi past, watching more turkish content which is more close to pakistani culture than Indian vulgar and softporn laden culture.

 

[Developereo]

waar could not possibly be success without bollywood. Its the craze of bollywood that led to investment in multiplexes and better cinema houses(when musharaf opened up pakistan). If people watch movie in cinemas, more directors will come forward to make movies and that starts a virtuous cycle.

Pakistan had cinemas and multiplexes in the 70s and 80s before Musharraf and when Pakistan used to make quality movies.

The Bollywood formula is easily to copy: the stories are formulaic, the dance choreography is formulaic. You can cut-and-paste between movies and wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

The only thing original is the music and the songs and that, admittedly, requires talent.
We had top notch artists in those fields back in the good decades.

As a country, we can produce the talent. The only tragedy is that we haven't done so lately.

 

[livingdead]

Pakistan had cinemas and multiplexes in the 70s and 80s before Musharraf and when Pakistan used to make quality movies.

The Bollywood formula is easily to copy: the stories are formulaic, the dance choreography is formulaic. You can cut-and-paste between movies and wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

The only thing original is the music and the songs and that, admittedly, requires talent.
We had top notch artists in those fields back in the good decades.

As a country, we can produce the talent. The only tragedy is that we haven't done so lately.

Quality movie or not you simply cannot make commercial movies (which waar is) without a movie going culture. You can make indie movies or very good french type movies that wins awards but requires handout from somebody (taxpayers?)
Its very difficult to make movies and make profit only based on DVD sell or music rights alone.

Why did pakistni movie industry go into decline after 80s, where as our went from strength to strength. Why did movie going pakistani public stopped watching their own movies?
And how did it revive recently?

 

[Dillinger]

Honestly, saw WAAR (it did get sloppy here and there) and I don't think in terms of just relative quality that DHOOM-3 is going to be better than it, the action and gun play in WAAR was superb.

 

[jaunty]

Honestly, saw WAAR (it did get sloppy here and there) and I don't think in terms of just relative quality that DHOOM-3 is going to better than it, the action and gun play in WAAR was superb.

How did you see it? Link please.

 

[Developereo]

Why did pakistni movie industry go into decline after 80s,

That's a very good question. Pakistan did have a movie going culture in the 70s, but everything went downhill in the following decades.

I don't know the answer. Many of our top artists were Bengali, but that's not the whole story, since the majority were still West Pakistani. Something died in the Pakistani film industry and the public followed suit.

I don't know what.

 

[JanjaWeed]

wow.. kya baat hai. Dhoom-3 ne dhoom machaya Pakistan mai? btw.. I thought Indian movies are banned in Pakistan after that court order last month!