Pakistan Theater

Both the films' business witnessed a "limited growth" on Sunday

Local distributors of the latest Aamir Khan-starrer "Dangal" in Pakistan are pinning their hopes on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to give his formal approval to its release in the country and are expecting the film to be screened soon.

Cinemas in Pakistan will start screening Indian movies from today as film exhibitors and cinema owners lifted a two-month self-imposed suspension of their screening that was put in place amidst Indo-Pak tensions following the Uri terror attack.

Lahore High Court judge Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan issued the order to ban the release of the film, starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif, in the theaters in Pakistan after hearing the arguments of Hafiz Saeed's counsel and the government law officer

The convicted bomb-maker in a 2009 plot to cause carnage in New York described how he and an al-Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets. "We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, subways, movie theaters, I believe buses were mentioned too...

The buzz around the run-up to the release of The Dirty Picture is in full swing but movie buffs in Pakistan may not have a chance to catch the film.

Both the films' business witnessed a "limited growth" on Sunday

Local distributors of the latest Aamir Khan-starrer "Dangal" in Pakistan are pinning their hopes on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to give his formal approval to its release in the country and are expecting the film to be screened soon.

Cinemas in Pakistan will start screening Indian movies from today as film exhibitors and cinema owners lifted a two-month self-imposed suspension of their screening that was put in place amidst Indo-Pak tensions following the Uri terror attack.

Lahore High Court judge Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan issued the order to ban the release of the film, starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif, in the theaters in Pakistan after hearing the arguments of Hafiz Saeed's counsel and the government law officer

The convicted bomb-maker in a 2009 plot to cause carnage in New York described how he and an al-Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets. "We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, subways, movie theaters, I believe buses were mentioned too...

The buzz around the run-up to the release of The Dirty Picture is in full swing but movie buffs in Pakistan may not have a chance to catch the film.