Films that bond Asia

by wunder | April 24, 2008 at 03:53 am | 214 views | 3 comments

Of all the flattering headlines that greeted the release this month of the first Pakistani film shown in India in four decades, one stuck in the mind of its director, Shoaib Mansoor.

“We didn’t know that Pakistan had such good houses,” the headline said, Mr. Mansoor recalled in an interview here.

It was a striking reminder of how little people in India know about their neighbors across the border.

For 43 years no Pakistan-made film had been distributed commercially tomovie theaters in India until the opening here of Mr. Mansoor’s movie,“Khuda Kay Liye” (“In the Name of God”). That absence has contributedto widespread ignorance in India about contemporary Pakistan, a countryset apart by such entrenched political hostility that few Indians havevisited it.

The release of the film, which broke all boxoffice records in Pakistan last year, was hailed here as a significantmoment in the slowly

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wunder, please use the Highlight Tool. I notice that several editors have used the "wrench" flag on your submissions. Check out the Newsroom to learn how to use the site. Thanks.

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good stuff:

wunder, I like this story. It's good stuff.

wunder

Thanks azzay India

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