Punjabi Cinema In Pakistan
Think it’s important for every society to have its own film industry. It’s an assertion of identity that goes a long way in building and demonstrating a society’s confidence in itself and willingness to look at its own reflection. And I think it’s an amazing and beautiful thing that so many of India’s languages have a film industry.
Pak industry’s current state is just an extension of the head in the sand attitude that the Pakistani elites have demonstrated in everything else. You know there’s a self-confidence issue if you prefer seeing another people’s society reflected in your film screens rather than your own.
The cinema of Pakistan refers to Pakistan’s film industry. Most of the feature films shot in Pakistan are in Urdu language but may also include films in Punjabi, Pashto, Balouchi or Sindhi languages. It is all mainly in Lahore and lovingly they call it Lollywood on the line of Bollywood. Before partition in 1947, Lahore was a major film center where as early 1920s silent movies were made over here. The first film of Pakistan was made by Mr. Lal, released in 1948, Teri Yaad in Urdu language. It didn’t succeed at box office but Lahore kept going on. The very next venture was in Punjabi named Pharey in 1949. After that the journey of Punjabi cinema continued and never looked back.
Punjabi films audience had been mainly rural but with great growth of cities in Punjab, we can consider the Pakistan of 70s and 80s, in this regard. There was a time in Punjabi films up to possibly mid 70s when the quality was quite good but after that it began to deteriorate much. Surprisingly Pakistani politics is always poking its nose in film people’s life and constantly stressing them to do this and that. This has caused major damage to the growth of Pakistani and in particular Punjabi cinema.
General Zia deposed Bhutto and the things were not bright after that for Pakistani films as he virtually killed the cause of cinema. Many movies were re-shot because of the ban on excessive romance etc. By 70s films in Lahore became too commercial and producers had to coop with few talented actors. Punjabi cinema has changed its shape with the passage of time. We will look here what sort of changes has been observed over the years.
Change in trends according to Genre:
Topics and themes of Punjabi films have never been same through out the history of 60 years. Every decade has over shadow by different film genre; which are different in every decade.
By Hina Nasir
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