Pashto films industry
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Pollywood (Urdu: پالیوڈ) is the popular acronym for the film industry based in the city of Peshawar, the provincial capital of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
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[edit] History of Pashto film
The first Pashto film was made in 1939. Its name was ‘Laila Majnoon’. The film was released in 1942 and the people not only watched it in Peshawar, but in Quetta and Kolkata (Calcutta, India) as well. The director of the film was Mir Hamza Shinwari, while the composer of the film was Abdul Kareem. The heroine of Laila Majnoon was Habib Jan and the hero was Rafiqe Ghaznawi.
The Pashto second film was made after quite a long time during the 1960s. Its story was a translation of an Urdu film named, ‘Nai Kiran’ (Urdu) which translated to "new ray". The dialogues of the film were written by Mir Hamza Shinwari. It was displayed at Novelty cinema, Peshawar.
The third Pashto film to be produced was called, ‘Tiga’ which was made by Mir Hamza Shinwari in 1963. The hero of the film was Umer Daraz, while Ludeel was the cameraman of the film. Due to the success of the film in 1968 a film, ‘Yakka Yousaf Khan’ was released. The heroine of the film was Ghazali while the hero was Rab Nawaz. This film was inaugurated by Urdu film star, Rangeela.
From 1960 to 80s Pashto film enjoyed its great times. Its standard was on no grounds less than that of Urdu films till mid 70s and even 80s. If there were Waheed Murad, Nadim and Mohammad Ali in Lollywood (Urdu films), so Badar Munir, Asif Khan and many others were the chocolate heroes of the Pashto film industry.
During these days cinema was the most effective way to communicate with the people as the standard of the movies were very good. Till mid 80s films were made on almost every subject and the people really loved to watch Pashto movies in cinema. So Pashto films played a great role in development of NWFP as though cinema used to situate only in the urban areas of NWFP, but people from far flung areas came to cities like Peshawar, Mardan, and Mingora etc to watch films. Now though the standard of the Pashto film has fallen very much, but the youths, especially the rural people still love to go to cinema.
Till 1990 there were some great names in the Pashto film industry. For instance, Mir Hamza Shinwari who was a producer, director and a great name in the Pashto poetry. Murad Shinwari is the one whose name comes in the list of the producers and directors who really served the Pashto industry in its real sense. Amir Ghulam Sadiq is the only name in the Pashto film industry, who did poetry for Pashto films for almost more than 30 years. But after 1990 owing to the absence of institutionalization in the Pashto film industry, there were no such dedicated people, which in intern created environment conducive to vulgarity and obscenity and the standard of the Pashto films fell.
[edit] 2003 onwards
In early years between 2000-2003, Pashto films seemed to have lost their fans due to restrictions by the MMA government on their publicity through banners and posters of the film stars. The labourers who come to the provincial capital, Peshawar for manual jobs used to watch Pashto films in cinemas, but due to the ban the audience of the Pashto film has reduced tremendously because it usually comprises the working class who cannot even read the names of film stars.
Since 2003 Pashto films have changed its trend with new young generation of actors like Arbaz Khan, son of Legendary Film Star Asif Khan. His first Pashto film "MEENA QURBANI GHUWARI" became a huge hit in 2003. In 2004 there were few flops but average films were Niazbeen & Khybarey. "ASHNAGHAREY" did great business and made good profits for its distributors in Peshawar, Mardan & Swat district. In 2006 a new director Liaqat Ali Khan made a name for himself with a Super Hit film "SABAR SHA ZARGIYA" starring Arbaz Khan , Jehangir Khan , Ajab Gul & Asma. The songs of Sabar Sha Zargiya became very popular and the film was an instant hit the moment it hit the silver screens. Arbaz Khan's cousin Yousaf Khan who is elder brother of Amir Khan did a Music Video on a song WALEY BAWAR NAKAWEY from film SABAR SHA ZARGIYA. Another film "LAG DEY ZRA NA TAPOS OKA became a good hit as well at the box office
In March 2007 Arbaz Khan took another curve in his film career when he started his first film direction called STA MOHABBAT ZAMA SAZA SHUWA. The story of this film was completely change & new to Pashto Film Industry. The cast of the film was Arbaz Khan, Jehangir Khan (Indian Army Major), Asif Khan(Pakistani Army Colonel), Shah Jehan, Dilbar Munir (son of Legendary Badar Munir), Sidra Noor, Meena Naz. Arbaz Khan also introduced his young 23 years old cousin Amir Khan in this film who played younger brother of Jehangir Khan. Amir Khan made a name for himself in the Industry through his good acting & powerful deep voice like his uncle Asif Khan. The film became a super duper hit on box office with its new story & catchy songs from popular singers Nazia Iqbal & Anwar Khayaal. Arbaz Khan also directed his 2nd film "Zra Mey Ta Oray Dey" but it hasn't been successful as STA MOHABBAT ZAMA SAZA SHUWA. Liaqat Ali Khan's film TIGER is doing good business currently, the film was shot in beautiful locations of Dubai. For Eid ul Azha few more Pashto films are being released in which Arbaz Khan is starring in Liaqat Ali Khan's "STA DEY MEENAY LEWANEY YUM" and director Naseem Khan's "HAQEEQAT".
Here are some of the Trailers of recent Pashto Films
[edit] Pashto hits
- ‘Yousaf Khan Sher Bano’ was made in 1969 and released in 1970. It was written by Ali Hyder Joshi and directed by Aziz Shamim.
- ‘Sandar Gharai’ (Singer) was released in 1970. Badar Munir was the hero and Yasmin Khan was the heroine of the movie, whereas Niamat Sarahadi was the villain.
- ‘Kala Khazan Kala Bahar’ (meaning some times autumn some times spring) was directed by Jamil Ahmad and produced by Syed Amir Sarhadi in 1970. The hero of the film was Aman.
- ‘Aalaqa Ghair’ (means land of no law) was made (produced) by Habibullah in 1971. Dialogues and poetry was made by Amir Hamza Shinwari.
Similarly ‘Darrae Khyber’, ‘Adam Khan Durkhanai’ (produced by Shakil Ayub and directed by Aziz Tabassum), ‘Musa Khan Gul Makai’ (hero was Asif khan and heroine was Yasmin Khan), ‘Bahadur Khan’ (hero was Humayun Qureshi), ‘Ajab Khan Afridi’, ‘Zama Badan’, ‘Maghrur’, ‘Oarbal’, ‘Topak Zama Qanoon’ (produced by Aziz Tabassum), ‘Dahqan’ (directed by the Legendary pushto film director Muhammad yousaf bhatti.they gavE us the big change in history of the pushto films in the Pakistan.his another big block busters SHPUNKEY,DORAHA,BEY QASOOR,NEEMGRAY DUNYA,CHAGHA,NEHLEY PEY DEHLA,COCHOAN ANY MENY MOR BID HITS produced by Badar Munir), ‘Baghi’, ‘Arman’, ‘Miranae Roar’ (step brother), ‘Tarbooz’, ‘Iqrar’, ‘Angar’, ‘Zakhmoona, ‘Navae au Nakriza’(Bridal and Henna), ‘Ujrati Qatil’, ‘Da Aoochea Khan’, ‘Prdang’, ‘Toofani Shappa’, ‘Bangri au Hathqardae’, ‘Ab-e-Hyat’, ‘Khulea Nave’, ‘Kufar au Islam’, ‘Da Karye Gorilla’ and many more are the Pashto hits form 1970-71 to 1985.
[edit] Future of Pashto Film Industry
Future of the Pashto film industry seems to be bright as there are still some people who want to do something for the betterment of the industry. For instance, Ajab Gul, who is a renowned actor and director in both the Urdu and the Pashto film industry. In 1999 he made a film, ‘Srre Sttergae’(red eyes) and through this film he proved that still there is a great potential in Pashto films as the story for the first time after many years was quite different and the cast, especially the heroine(s) were new and seemed that after a great hard work the film was completed. A few months back, another Pashto film, ‘Qalam au Kalashnikov’, written by Faiz Mohammad released. The standard was quite good and people liked the movie. This is to correct the record pertaining the pashto film Kala khazan kala bahar ,its hero was Hmayun qureshi and Not Aman.
[edit] Pashto Film Actors
- Kaleem Shah
- Arbaaz Khan
- Asif Khan
- Badar Munir
- Amir Khan new face in Pollywood
- Dilbar Munir
- Shahid Khan
- Jehangir Khan
- Shah Jehan (Shah Jee)
- Tarik Shah
- Namat Sarhadi
- Ajab Gul
- Sher Zaman new face in Pollywood
[edit] Pashto Film Actresses
Maria new face Pashto Films
- Meena Naz new face in Pashto Films
- Nazo,
- Sidra Noor
- Asima
[edit] See also
- South Asian cinema
- List of Pakistani films
- List of Pashto films
- List of Pakistani Actors
- Kara Film Festival - International Film Festival held annually in Karachi
- Billboards of Lahore
- Lollywood - Urdu and Punjabi Language film industry in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
- Documentary about the pashto film industry
- Official web site of Lollywood
- Official web site of karachi film industry
- News about Lollywood
- Watch lollywood movies online
- Lollywood Forums
