From 2021’s movie ‘Khel Khel Mein’, the Pakistani film industry witnessed its revival mode.Â
Even last month on Eid-ul-Fitr, Pakistani films saw a severe competition with 5 films releasing together. However, things got messy when Dr. Strange was released and it took most of the business away from the Pakistani movies.
This debate brought forward the question that how much was being utilized as budgets for Pakistani films that an international film can affect badly as many producers protested against the release of Dr. Starnge.
As budgets are generally hidden from the public eye and not shared in Pakistan unlike in Hollywood and Bollywood. A question was asked by YouTuber Mooroo from leading filmmakers Fizza Ali Meerza and Nabeel Qureshi on what budget typically a Pakistani movie is made of?
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Fizza Ali Meerza and Nabeel Qureshi revealed that budgets are not announced as people who are not connected to filmmaking cannot understand the maths behind it and they would generally pass off negative comments.
According to them, a film has to make thrice what its budget was to actually be in profit. “Making twice takes to break even,” Ali said. Nabeel Qureshi also shared that a movie’s business is not only ticket sales and a lot more including television and music rights need to be added.
