"Pakistani Film Industry Going Back To Lost Glory Due To New Ideas, Talent"

Creative ideas and young talent are steering Pakistani film industry back towards lost glories and cinema is reemerging in Pakistan as a primary source of entertainment.

BAHAWALPUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Mar, 2018 ) :Creative ideas and young talent are steering Pakistani film industry back towards lost glories and cinema is reemerging in Pakistan as a Primary source of entertainment.

This was stated by emerging film actor and writer Ahmad Bilal while talking to APP. He told that interest of youth in film industry is bringing new concepts and eventually people are getting attracted towards Pakistani films.

He said that he has recently worked in two big projects. "Ready, Steady, No!" by Hisham Bin Munawar which is scheduled to be released on 4th May, and "Teefa In Trouble" by Ahsan Rahim which will release on 20th July.

He told that trailer of Teefa in Trouble was released on Pakistan Super League's opening ceremony which provided huge publicity needed for promotion of the film. He told that while working in Ready Steady No, he got chance to work with Amna Ilyas, Salman Shahid, Faisal Saif, Nayyer Ijaz, Ismaeil Tara, Ashraf Khan and Zain Afzal.

It is a romantic comedy, family entertainment film. The star cast of Teefa in Trouble included big Names like Ali Zafar, Maya Ali, Mehmood Aslam, Javed Sheikh, Nayyer Ijaz, Asma Abbas, Faisal Qureshi and Tom Coulston and is a Romantic Comedy with a lot of Action.

"In both the films, I have a supporting role" Ahmad Bilal added. "Working in both these film was a lifetime and totally different-from-each-other experience. I worked with Teefa in Trouble as an actor and learnt a lot of things from the co-actors, crew and especially from Ahsan Rahim, director of the film", he told.

He further said that Ahsan Rahim's outstanding wit of direction with the ultimate framing of Zain Haleem, the director of photography, is that guided him through the process. "Ready Steady No" is the closest to my heart because I have been connected to this film for around five years", Ahmad Bilal claimed.

"In 2013, when I started sharing apartment with Hisham, he was thinking of the script for the film and that was the time when he started writing this film. The whole process has flown to its destination in front of my own eyes.

I have seen the challenges in making a film during that time. I could never have visualized those obstacles and challenges if it had not happened like this", he added. Ahmad Bilal said, "Another reason for Ready Steady No being really close to my heart is that Hisham took inspiration for this script from my real story and he even wrote the character of the lawyer, visualizing me, which I played in the movie".

Giving account of his professional life, he told that by profession he is a lawyer and entered film industry in 2013 when he did the Telefilm Taweez by Shahrukh Naveed. This film was actually a thesis of Masters from London Film school.

"Then I entered the main stream acting when my dear friend Hisham Bin Munawar selected me for a key role in his feature film "Ready, Steady, No!". This was an opportunity, I would rather call it a trust, for which I will always be grateful", he said.

Responding to a question he said, "Besides acting and Law practice, I do poetry. Recently my urdu poems book named Unwaan has been published by Sanjh Publication Lahore and I am also working as a Creative Director with Tabeer Tourism, a Dubai based company.

I make their in-house videos and tourism documentaries for different countries. The General Manager of the company Imtiaz Hussain, who happens to be my childhood friend as well, has always been a great support for me; especially when he tolerates my long absences from Dubai Office on regular intervals due to the showbiz."