Lollywood or Bollywood?

Business Daily

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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We take a look at the fortunes of Bollywood and Lollywood post pandemic. We’ll ask what the future holds for the film industries of India and Pakistan and explore whose creative ideas and business innovations in cinema are proving to be a hit with audiences.

Emb Hashmi speaks to the stars of the new Lollywood film 'London Nahi Jaunga' and Nikhil Inamdar visits a Bollywood film set. We also hear from critics, directors and analysts who tell us what they think both film industries need to do to increase profits and box office numbers.

Presenter: Emb Hashmi Reporting: Nikhil Inamdar Producer: Carmel O'Grady

Image:Humayun Saeed and Kubra Khan; Credit: BBC

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0:00.0	A bomb whose creation would tit the scales of global power.
0:05.2	A nuclear physicist who sought to redress the balance.
0:10.4	The bomb, a podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:14.4	Season 2, available now.
0:17.7	Bollywood or Lollywood.
0:30.8	I'm M. Hashmi and today on Business Daily, we're going to be looking at the film industries in Pakistan and India.
0:39.3	I'll explore Lollywood's latest post-pandemic releases and speak to some of Pakistan's biggest film stars and award-winning directors.
0:40.6	We are showing the world that our drama is very good.
0:44.2	The dialogues are good.
0:45.2	The stories are very realistic and you can relate to the stories.
0:50.2	And BBC business reporter Nikal Emandar will investigate the disappointing Bollywood box office returns
0:56.7	since cinemas reopened and film production resumed in India.
1:03.7	That's all coming up on Business Daily.
1:08.2	Let's start with Pakistan.
1:10.1	Its film industry, much like the country itself, is dwarfed by neighbours, India and Bollywood.
1:15.6	The history of the two industries is complicated and intertwined.
1:20.6	Lahore is the traditional home of Pakistan film industry, hence Lollywood, but Farage is also the centre of filmmaking.
1:29.4	This feels like a good time to bring in Sarmad Sultan Khosat, multi-award-winning Pakistani film
1:35.3	director, actor, producer and screenwriter. His feature films have been shown at Cannes Film Festival
1:42.6	in France and the Bhutan Film Festival in South Korea.
1:47.0	And his latest release, Kamli, has been very well received.
1:52.0	Soon after partition, I think we had a thriving film industry with large-scale studio lots and technicians and artists and cinema houses.
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