PTV co-producing biopics with Uzbek and Iranian filmmakers

PTV will collaborate with Uzbek and Iranian filmmakers to produce biographical films, to revive Pakistani cinema.

The government has finally started taking measures to revive the spirit of Pakistani cinema and bring back its golden era. As part of this initiative, the upcoming productions will be biographical films based on Allama Iqbal, Tipu Sultan and Zahir-ud-din Babar.

Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhry, announced that the government is co-producing two “multi-million dollar” biopics. With Iran, PTV will make a film on Zaheer-ud- Din Babur and with Uzbekistan it will make a biopic on Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the poet of the East. Apart from this, Pakistan will also make a film on Tipu Sultan with the help of a private production house.

In an attempt, to support the cinema culture, “the government will offer industrial and domestic rates for the electricity consumption in cinema houses,” he mentioned. “We have slashed several taxes from cinemas.”