Vulgarity in Lolly-wood Films !

Once there was a time when Pakistani Cinema Industry was producing great movies and we were surprisingly getting copied by the famous Bolly-wood. I remember there was a movie which was copied 100%. Even the shots and camera angles were same. The interesting thing was that the lead role (female) played by Salma Agha in Pakistani movie was again offered to her in Bolly-wood movie too. At-last even we can say Bolly-wood copied us :d.

But after few decades when we had to suffer from Marshal Law of General Zia the industry nearly died. Experienced filmmakers and financers started getting on one side quietly. After the death of General Zia the industry had a chance to get on its feet. But this time the entrance was not of pro filmmakers but people who had black money and who wanted to convert it into white money. Sadly film like “MAULA JUT” got success at box office which was the beginning of the end. Along with these type of movies started coming vulgarity as an important part. The laws made by Zia were not Islamic but were more of a sick conservative extremist. The reason for what i call him sick is that he implemented Islamic laws which were only for the public. If he was honest enough he would have first admitted himself for a criminal trial. Well putting this issue aside and coming towards the vulgarity, as he died and corrupt people got a chance to invest in film industry they created their own mind that due to hard restriction on sex and other element related to sex and nudity people are dying to experience sex and nudity. So to satisfy them the best option is to make films full of vulgarity. Readers might think that they could have made Blue films! well the answer is simple. Pakistan’s culture (and public) would have never allowed them to do so. And that how they started bringing top class vulgarity in the movies. This was completely a wrong thinking set in the minds of investors. Though there was a small market for this sort of stuff but as a whole then general public was getting more and more away from the films. The element of vulgarity also gave the way to female prostitutes to enter the film market. And prostitutes started coming to Lahore from not only Lahore itself but also from Faisal-a-bad, Multan, Gujranwala and Peshawar. They had easy access to the film industry by just satisfying the physical need of the investors and not bothering about the most important issue that do they have any acting skills or not? The entrance of these sort of people gave more and more rise to vulgarity. As a result intelligent filmmakers and producers started shifting towards TV medium which has always been considered more respectable medium in Pakistan.

If we look at the movies which do business (or i should say used to do business) they all were (and are) movies without vulgarity and targeting the whole families as we believe in family or joint family system and have a conservative culture. None of the films having nudity and vulgarity have gained success in Pakistan. If we draw a conclusion then we can say that Pakistani people love family stories and love stories with good music.

The current situation is interesting because the so-called filmmakers are making movies with lot of vulgarity and all of them are getting failed on box office. Don’t know why they are not learning from the mistakes. On the other hand the satisfying thing is that people are getting more and more interested in good films. Any filmmaker with a good story is more then sure that people will like his movie as they are dying to see something good in cinemas. The examples can be films like “Khule Asmaan Ke Neeche” and “Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huaa” by Javed Sheikh, “Ram Chand Pakistani” by Mehreen Jabbar and “Koi Tugh Sa Kahan” by Reema Khan

So the market is still open for good filmmakers !