Adil Najam
ATP has always been fascinated by Pakistani cinema. Both old (here, here, here, etc.) and new (here, here, here, etc.).
So hearing about the new telefilm called ‘Kaanch‘ was of interest.
The PR blurb about the movie says:
KaaNCH is a story of a Pakistani who came to London for his studies. The fast paced life of UK engulfs Sami (Adeel Suhrwardy) and he becomes a distant memory for his family in Pakistan. Certain events take Sami back to his homeland, where he finds his brother, Rakay (Khurram Suhrwardy) in the midst of an assassination attempt. KaaNCH is about ‘rediscovering yourself’.
It is being released by Geo TV today (June 17, 9PM Pakistan Time) and available online here. It is directed by Khurram Suhrwardy and written by Adeel Suhrwardy. The two brothers are also the lead actors in the film.
I should confess that I have not seen the movie, but the trailer (below) makes me want to see it, although thrillers are not really my genre (I am much more of a Waheed Murad kind of guy!).
I don’t mind paying 4 bucks for Pakistani movie even tele-movie but who in right mind in Pakistan will pay Rs.250 for movie which is already played on local tv channel – or – maybe its just for people who live outside Pakistan?
I think this movie will be unofficially release by people who work in rainbow center karachi or somebody will make a torrent of this pretty soon… sad but true!
I could manage to saw the last portion on GEO yesterday but honestly i wasn’t impressed on that. But it was few action (kind of ) scenes and i know we are not good at it so i should hold my horses before i watch it all.
Appreciation for a good attempt though.
Seems like an interesting movie. Maybe I’ll watch it online, since I don’t have GEO =) Thanks for the update.
Looks very promising. and its not $18, its actually $3.99
nice to see something different
well if nothing else, atleast the technical aspects of this ‘filaaam’ appear promising :)
18 $ for the whole movie, lets see how that goes.