Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, director of “Zindagi Tamasha” (“Circus of Life”), has weathered an annus horribilis and is now gearing up for his film’s 2021 Oscars campaign.
It has been a dramatic 12 months for Khoosat. On Jan. 21, 2020, he was on top of the world. The film had had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in 2019, where it won the prestigious Kim Ji-seok award, and it had since cleared Pakistan’s various censor boards, ready for a Jan. 24 local release. On Jan. 21 however, the federal government of Pakistan sent word that the release had to be postponed and the film must be sent for review to the Council of Islamic Ideology.
Set in Lahore, the film chronicles the chaos that ensues in the life of a staid, devout and elderly man when a video featuring him dancing to a 1974 Lollywood (Pakistan’s mainstream film industry) number gets uploaded onto...
It has been a dramatic 12 months for Khoosat. On Jan. 21, 2020, he was on top of the world. The film had had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in 2019, where it won the prestigious Kim Ji-seok award, and it had since cleared Pakistan’s various censor boards, ready for a Jan. 24 local release. On Jan. 21 however, the federal government of Pakistan sent word that the release had to be postponed and the film must be sent for review to the Council of Islamic Ideology.
Set in Lahore, the film chronicles the chaos that ensues in the life of a staid, devout and elderly man when a video featuring him dancing to a 1974 Lollywood (Pakistan’s mainstream film industry) number gets uploaded onto...
- 1/22/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety - Film News
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