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  • Pakistan’s superwoman Burka Avenger

    Pakistan’s superwoman Burka Avenger

    MUMBAI: A country where women are not allowed to have many rights, a change is about to happen with the coming of the Burka Avenger, the country’s first cartoon superwoman who stands against crime and injustice. The cartoon series will be aired on Geo Tez in Urdu and is produced by Unicorn Black that is owned by Pakistan’s biggest pop star Haroon Rashid. He is the creator of the cartoon, the first animated series ever produced wholly in the country.

     

    Burka Avenger is a mild-mannered school teacher who is fighting against thugs, who represent the Taliban, who are intent upon closing down the school where she teaches. She actually is Jiya, who also is trained in a fighting style called Takht Kabaddi, taught by her adopted father, using pens and books to attack. The character was created to send positive messages to the youth in the country.

     

    The series will be of 13 episodes of 22 minutes each. The show will begin from 28 July on Geo Tez at 6 p.m. Pakistan time. They have created a mobile application that can be downloaded for free and are currently working on an android application. The Facebook page has already got more than 8000 likes.

     

    The Ninja-like character wears a burka while fighting against the villains in the series. It follows the story of three kids in the imaginary city of Halwapur. The trailers are available on their website which are in Urdu and English, though it is now yet known where the English version will be aired. “Don’t mess with the lady in black” goes the title track with some amazing music by artists like Ali Zafar and Ali Azmat and a good quality picture.

     

    The whole series has been developed by a team of 22 people operating out of an office in Islamabad in a span of just a year.

  • Haroon Rashid finishes film in one take

    Haroon Rashid finishes film in one take

    MUMBAI: After Roop Tera Mastana… from Aradhana which was supposedly canned in a single take on Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore by Shakti Samanta, filmmakers have often tried to do such sort of achievement.

    The latest is debutant director Haroon Rashid who has completed a feature film of two hours and twenty minutes length in just one take without a single cut. Rashid claims that the film, titled One Shot Fear Without A Cut, is qualified as the world‘s longest one-take film and has been sent to the Guinness book of world records for the same.

    The film’s story revolves around the TRP game of media and how a team of a particular television channel gets trapped in this race and desires to get fame and recognition overnight. This greed of theirs takes them to a haunted place, uninhabited for several years. The crux of the film follows hereon.

    Rashid who wrote and directed the film had to double up as the cinematographer as well after many DOPs (director of photography) deserted him midway after a few days of rehearsal.

    On the challenges, Rashid said, “We shot a full-length film with songs, dance, real-time action and chase scenes spread across seven kilometers on actual locations. We were very accurate in what we did because if one would have gone wrong we would have had to do it all over again.”

    To make sure nothing went wrong, Rashid rehearsed with his crew for a few months. “We rehearsed for almost five months before shooting the film and we got it right in the seventh or eighth final take,” he pointed out.

    The film is a magnificent presentation of a very well synchronized team-work. Covering four locations over a distance of seven kilometers, starting from the sea to the road, road to the jungle and jungle to the final building, again all in one shot was no easy task.”It took a lot of courage, passion, trust and faith to achieve our goal, “observed Rashid.