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Profiles and Memorable Films of Pakistani Film Artistes
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Profiles and Filmographies of Pakistani Music Directors
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Profiles and memorable songs of Pakistani Film Singers
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Profiles of Lyricists, Script Writers, Directors & Producers
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Pakistani Film Database, awards, facts & trivia, forthcoming attractions, pictorial encyclopedia of film artistes etc.
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Latest News and Interviews of Pakistani Artistes
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Nostalgic pics from bygone era, Wallpapers etc.
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Schools of Performing Arts in Pakistan
Information Provided by - Toheed Ahmad (Ambassador of Pakistan - Dublin Ireland)
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 Bollywood`s first Hunk
 pioneering Muslim director of Urdu films in the sub-continent
Film Database
 List of Pakistani Films released in 1955
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As an art form and as a technology, the cinema has been in existence for barely a hundred years. Primitive cinematic devices came into being and began to be exploited in the 1890s, almost simultaneously in the United
Eight Chapters of Pakistani Film History along with synopses and reviews of films made during each period
 (1896-1931)
(1931-1947)
(1948-1955)
(1956-1966)
(1967-1978)
(1979-1990)
(1991-1999)
(2000-2006)
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States, France, Germany, and Great Britain. Within twenty years the cinema had spread to all parts of the globe; it had developed a sophisticated technology, and was on its way to becoming a major industry, providing the most popular form of entertainment to audiences in urban areas throughout the world, and attracting the attention of entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, and politicians. As well as for entertainment, the film medium has come to be used for purposes of education, propaganda, and scientific research. Originally formed from a fusion of elements including vaudeville, popular melodrama, and the illustrated lecture, it rapidly acquired artistic distinctiveness, which it is now beginning to lose as other forms of mass communication and entertainment have emerged alongside it to threaten its hegemony.
Quantitatively, Pakistan Film Industry (Lollywood) ranks among the top twenty film producing nations of the world with an average of 60 full length feature films per year. Pakistan's film industry should take pride in achieving three distinct accolades. The first accomplishment relates to Noor Jehan, also known as `Melody Queen' by music lovers. She is the country's most celebrated singer and actress, enjoying popularity in a career spanning about sixty years. Unfortunately no ready data is available about the number of songs recorded by her, which by a conservative estimate may well be around 3000. Actor Sultan Rahi was yet another phenomenon with a total number of 670 films to his credit. He played key roles in 525 films in a period of almost forty years between 1956 to 1995, averaging 16.75 films a year. Pakistan's third prodigy is the screenwriter Nasir Adib, who claims to have scripted more than 400 films in the last three decades.
In spite of all this, almost all Pakistani films cater to the local market and no serious effort has been made to broaden the audience base of our films or to enter these at international festivals. Very little, therefore, is known or heard about Pakistan's cinema outside the country. The indifference and timidity as evinced by this industry have a lot to do with the peculiar history of the evolution of cinema in Pakistan.
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It is time to launch a fresh program of development to meet demands of the fast pace of globalization in the domains of information, art, music, culture, entertainment and aesthetics. In other fields such as sports, trade, commerce, and defence, Pakistan has matched and at time achieved an edge over many developing countries of the world through open competition and with government support. But on the cinema front no serious research has been taken in hand to formulate long-term policy. The strategy of prolonged protectionism of the industry has failed to solve its problems. The film world of the country has sunk into the mire of adhocism, surviving from day to day, moment to moment, in the pursuit of the magic wand of commercial success.
With the abundance of unspoilt natural beauty and historical treasures in the country, Pakistani cinema, if it captures its legacy efficiently on celluloid, would achieve world-wide recognition. For all this one looks forward to the cultivation of a fresh crop of talented and committed young men and women to lead Pakistan's film world towards a bright future in the next century - Mushtaq Gazdar
Pakistani Film Database
Complete list of Pakistani films including cast, producer, director, music director, box-office status and related important information released from 1948-2000.
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