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  • Film on Shahid Afridi in offing

    Film on Shahid Afridi in offing

    MUMBAI: Making films based on the life of cricketers is fast gaining ground in India. While Vidhu Vinod Chopra‘s Ferrari Ki Sawaari is said to be based on Sachin Tendulkar, two noted film producers of Pakistan are in the process of making a film on the country’s flamboyant cricketer Shahid Afridi titled Main Hun Shahid Afridi.

    Main Hun Shahid Afridi, to be made by Humayun Saeed and Shahzad Nasib entails the struggles and achievements of a simple boy who made it big in cricket through sheer determination and hard work.

    Directed by Osman Ali Raza, the film will also star Saeed himself.

    The film has been shot at popular stadiums in Karachi and Sialkot with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) being actively supportive. More than 50 per cent of the film has been completed, according to the producers.

    The film’s lead role is being played by a 19-year-old Noman Habib, who himself is an aspiring cricketer. Afridi, however, would not be making an appearance in the film.

    Earlier, UK-based filmmaker Faisal Aman Khan made a film on the life of cricketer turned politician Imran Khan.

    Afridi, 32, has played 27 Tests, 334 one day internationals and 46 twenty20 internationals for the Pakistani team.

  • London Paris New York to premiere in Karachi

    London Paris New York to premiere in Karachi

    MUMBAI: Ali Zafar, who shot to fame in the 2010 film Tere Bin Laden, is excited because his upcoming film London Paris New York is going to be premiered in Karachi on 8 March.

    Two years ago, Zafar’s debut film Tere Bin Laden (2010) that the Pakistani singer-actor was co-distributing in Pakistan was banned three days before its release in the country for fear that Islamist extremists could use it as a pretext for terror attacks.

    The ban followed even after the producers were willing to drop the word Laden from the title and release it as Tere Bin in the country. But despite all efforts, the film couldn’t be officially released there.

    Zafar is confident that it won’t happen this time around. “There’s a huge buzz, people are looking forward to it. In fact, we’ve planned a big, red carpet premiere in Karachi on 8 March if we can get the requisite permission.”

    Ali has been promoting the film extensively on Pakistan’s biggest TV network, Geo TV, which will be releasing the film in the country.

    London Paris New York is a coming of age love story mirroring 3 states of love and brings back wit into Bollywood‘s romantic comedies.

    The film is the story about Lalitha, a middle class south Indian girl from Chembur (an eastern suburb in Mumbai) who is on her way to New York to study politics with full scholarship, and Nikhil, a Punjabi, rich kid from Bandra (a posh western suburb of Mumbai )who is going to study Film Making in London on 100 per cent dad‘s money. They decide to hangout together one evening in London and find that they are completely drawn to each other even as their future lies on separate continents. The film follows their personal journey and their love story.

    London Paris New York releases across India on 2 March.