By the 60s, it had started focusing on other things. “It had to build a state and nurture a nation. “Pakistan had to recreate everything after the partition of 1947,” Yasir Jaswal, writer and director of Jalaibee, told Digital Trends. By the 1960s, they had managed to increase the output and quality of their productions. Many campaigned to ban Indian movies in Pakistan to protect the nascent film industry. While Indian filmmakers continued to perform a magnificent job, their Pakistani counterparts faced a number of troubles due to the lack of resources. It acquired a separate identity soon after the creation of Pakistan in August of 1947. 1947 – 1978: How it all beganĭespite its flaws and limitations, the fact that the country’s film industry has survived for so long is itself nothing short of a miracle. Many of them, for instance, focus more on picture quality and special effects instead of generating better story ideas, scripts and overall content.” “Some of our young filmmakers are leaning too heavily on it. The ease of digital creation is a problem too, Khan noted. “Technology has made things faster and easier for us,” he told Digital Trends. “We’re learning on the fly,” explained Abbas Ali Khan, a promising singer and composer, who has helped moviemakers with audio mixing and scoring. Many are experimenting with their craft, exploring new genres while trying to figure out the market needs in a country that had largely forgotten about the art, some even devising their own recipes for success. These emerging entrepreneurs work to breathe new life into the industry. Young tech- and business-savvy filmmakers have rolled out dozens of low-budget movies with considerable success in recent years, drawing people back to those cinema houses and creating hope for the resurgence of moviemaking in the country.
But change comes to the country once again. Seventy remain, a near complete extinction spurred by the repressive Islamic government and years of sloppy work. Pakistan had 1,500 movie houses just 50 years ago.