Mohammed Rizwan
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/ 2 August 2005

Pakistan’s suffering cinemas want to lift celluloid curtain

Struggling under an onslaught of Bollywood movies on black market DVDs, the owners of Pakistan’s empty cinema halls are imploring their government to lift a ban on India’s wildly popular masala flicks. Movie houses that once saw audiences queue for Pakistan’s home-grown ”Lollywood” productions now say they need to screen films made by their once bitter rivals in glitzy Mumbai.