I try not to show abuse and nudity, but if I am making a film on Javed Iqbal, who killed 100 children, then portraying him to be someone other than what he was would be unconvincing to the audience. “I can’t show characters singing and dancing. “My cinema is not commercial,” said Aleeha.
But a look back at this list shows that the decisions are often made on a whim.įilmmaker Abu Aleeha, whose highly anticipated Javed Iqbal: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer (starring Yasir Hussain and Ayesha Omar) is slated for release in December, told SAMAA Digital how films that have little to do with fiction are often targeted for being “realistic”.
In Pakistan, the history of film censorship is not only packed with popular titles from Hollywood and Bollywood, but local releases that hit the screen during the “revival” of Pakistani cinema after Shoaib Mansoor’s Bol in 2008 as well. Although OTT platforms have made accessible the content we couldn’t have imagined on our television screens before, conventional film continues to bear the brunt of uncalled for edits if it doesn’t lie within the moral bounds of the censor board.
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