Before starting this article I want to tell you I am not a professional script writer till now. Neither I have I discovered any shocking secrets about how to get a good (the better word should be sellable) script. I am over here just sharing my views which are based on my analysis which I have developed after watching few newly released movies in recent times and by the result of some other movies which were released couple of years back. Though you might think that why I did the analysis of recent time movies with the movies of past years. Well the answer is simple and that is they all were the only movie which had attraction for viewers (at-least before the release).
One more thing which I want to say is that I feel happy the general Pakistani audience has developed the taste for a good movie which was not present in past.
Coming back towards the topic what is the right type of script for Pakistani audience? The answer is simple. They want something new instead of that old love stories or family drama which had the quarrel between either two families or within the family to marry the person of their own choice. But looks like Pakistani filmmakers are still living in fool’s paradise. The recent example of it is Javed Shekh (who though is an intelligent person but still failed to get a sparking script). His movie Khulay Asmaan Ke Neechay was one of the biggest flops of the Pakistan history despite of the fact that it was the most expensive movie of Lolly wood and even the marketing budget was the biggest. But the story was completely an old one where a boy wanted to marry the girl of his own choice and the family was against it. The movie with this old and boring story was a big flop. Though it has good melodious songs which are considered a very important ingredient of Lolly wood movies and along with it, it had It had best equipments hired (which is like a blessing for Pakistani filmmakers). I am mentioning about equipments because generally Pakistani filmmakers think that latest equipments are the most important factor in success of films which is completely wrong.
The other movie which is “RAMCHAND PAKISTANI” was a mixture of one of the best HD-CAMS and equipments (again) and highly creative script selected by Mehreen Jabbar. No doubt Mehreen is one of the best filmmakers of Pakistan and has the potential to even stand in the list of good filmmakers in international list. But even her movie failed at the box office which is little shocking. The only reason which I could find was that though the topic was but had no appeal for general audience. The movie was more like an artistic film rather then a commercial film. The simple question was that why general audience will be interested in a Hindu boy of Pakistan living near the borders and crossing the border by mistake? In the modern era where Pakistani audience is already tired of the real life hardships they will not be interested in wasting their money by going to cinema and to see the hardship of any other Pakistani. So the Pakistani filmmakers should remember the present state of Pakistani audience and should choose any interesting script which can give relief to the audience instead of creating more tensions……..
To be Continued…….
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