Pakistani cinemas to start screening Indian movies from December 19

Cinemas in Pakistan will start screening Indian movies from December 19, DawnNews reported on Saturday.

The cinema houses' owners said that they had only suspended the screening of Indian films but had not completely banned them.

"The suspension that was in place will be lifted on December 19," confirmed Nadeem Mandviwala of Atrium cinemas.

He added that movies which were missed and could not be screened due to the suspension will be screened first.

"We lifted the suspension as a cinema guild. We took this decision because we would like to support them (Indian cinemas) and expect them to support us," said Aadil Mandviwala, Director Mandviwala Entertainment.

"It takes two hands to clap, it does not matter if one hand is bigger or smaller. At the end of the day, its the clapping that counts. This is the message that we want India to hear," added Aadil.

The first film to be screened will be actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Freaky Ali.

On September 30, the management of Pakistani cinemas, Lahore's Super Cinemas and Karachi's Nueplex and Atrium cinemas, announced their decision to indefinitely cease the screening of all Indian films as a protest against the ban of Pakistani artists in India and to show solidarity with the armed forces of Pakistan.

The move to suspend screening of Indian movies came as a tit for tat move after the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association (IMPPA) banned Pakistani actors, singers and technicians from working in India till "normalcy" returns.

India's hard-line party Shiv Sena's chief Raj Thackeray had also asked to suppress Pakistan actors, saying "with a population of 1.5 billion, we don't need them".

Indian movies returned to Pakistani cinema houses in 2008 after a 43-year-long hiatus imposed during the 1965 war.

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I don't know how to react. Perhaps people in Pak would be able to tell if this move is good or bad.

This is good! I'm happy to see things inching back to normal.

BW and Pakistani cinema need each other. Pakistanis prefer watching shit from BW rather than Shaan Shahid's work as we saw one Pakistani member going bonkers over ADHM after watching it's pirated version. And BW's shit doesn't work here in India so they need Pakistani audience. But I am against this as patriotic BW should not contribute to terrorism money and prefer martyrdom like soldiers. I will complain to pmoindia.

Pakistani audience are a big money maker for Bollywood movie producers, so they must be happy this. Always thought any bans/suspensions no matter the country the are implemented by, India or Pakistan, is ludicrous and dangerous. Only causes division among people, the distinction of us and them is created furthering tensions. Art such as movies should be something that bring us together.

Who cares for a failed state.

Originally posted by: serendipity_10

This is good! I'm happy to see things inching back to normal.

Originally posted by: MrsKhan

BW and Pakistani cinema need each other. Pakistanis prefer watching shit from BW rather than Shaan Shahid's work as we saw one Pakistani member going bonkers over ADHM after watching it's pirated version. And BW's shit doesn't work here in India so they need Pakistani audience. But I am against this as patriotic BW should not contribute to terrorism money and prefer martyrdom like soldiers. I will complain to pmoindia.

With everyone back in Pakistan including Fawad and Mahira, they should start with more organic production. Bin Roye was good TP movie. There few others which were kind of nice movies.

How much is Pak BO earnings? Is it in range of 50 cr or less?
Many people have said that Pak cinema needs BW movies to make money that can be invested to make good Pak movies. My guess is that Pak cinema halls need BW more.
BW movies have US and U.K. markets as money minting machines, I don't think Pak is big "overseas " market.