As Waar achieves one gigantic milestone after
another and creates history in Pakistani cinema; the Waar team, distributors,
film exhibitors and leading personalities of film fraternity jointly celebrated
the remarkable success by observing a cake cutting ceremony. Waar has broken
all past business records of Pakistani cinema and it is expected that the movie
will achieve even greater milestones by surpassing PKR 14 Crore in 15 days as
the growth momentum continues. Waar
has undoubtedly become a Pakistani movie that will go down in the history of
Pakistani cinema in golden words. Released under the banner of Mind Works Media
with a massive production budget of nearly US$ 2 million, ‘Waar’ is Pakistan’s
biggest budget movie to date. ‘Waar’ continues to shine on in every Pakistani
cinema as audience is all praises about the movie, raising this Unstoppable
Movie’s popularity every day.
Distributed by ARY Films & Mandviwalla
Entertainment, ‘Waar’ is written and produced by Dr. Hassan Waqas Rana while
the young and very talented Bilal Lashari has directed the movie. The star cast
of ‘Waar’ includes a mix of industry veterans and newcomers: Superstar Shaan
plays the lead role in the movie that becomes the last hope for Pakistan’s
security agencies to battle against the vicious opponent Shamoon Abbasi. Hamza Ali Abbasi, Aisha Khan, Ali Azmat,
Misha Shafi, Kamran Lashari and Nadeem
Abbas Rana make the rest of the cast of the movie.
“Waar
has definitely raised the bar at many different levels for Pakistan’s cinema
industry such as production values, direction, acting, music score, the action
and special effects etc. The audience have given their verdict, they loved the
movie! I believe that this is the start of an era where we will be making world
class movies and Pakistan’s talent will spread the positive image of the country
around the world.” said Salman Iqbal, President and Founder, ARY Digital
Network.
“All
the positive anticipations about ‘Waar’ are materializing and it is wonderful
to see that the Pakistani audience is appreciating a Pakistani movie made with
so much passion. For us, audience gives the final verdict on any movie and with
the ever-growing box office success of ‘Waar’, Pakistani audience has proved
that they have matured with time and have a taste for alternative genre of
movies that score high on the rest of the movie’s elements such as
cinematography and visualization.” said Mohammad Jerjees Seja, CEO, ARY Digital
Network.
“Pakistani
movies such as ‘Waar’ have breathed a new life into the rebuilding of Pakistani
cinema, and project a positive image of Pakistan against the forces working
against Pakistan; it is a story that every Pakistani will be proud of telling. We
also believe that ‘Waar’ will become a game changer in building confidence in
Pakistan’s growing cinema market and in time will become the biggest incentive
to produce films in Pakistan” said Nadeem H. Mandviwalla, Managing Director,
Mandviwalla Entertainment.
Pleased
with the success of his debut movie, Bilal Lashari, Director of the movie ‘Waar’ said, “I’m grateful to each and every person that made
the effort to go to the cinema and appreciate my movie. ‘Waar’ will always
remain close to my heart and it is motivating to see the kind of response that
my first movie is receiving. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie making experience
and will continue to make movies on issues that I believe should be brought to
the fore.”
“It is heartening to receive such
overwhelming response from the Pakistani audience,” said Dr. Hasan Waqas Rana
while sharing his thoughts on the box office success. “Waar is a movie made for
the Pakistanis, by the Pakistanis and of the Pakistanis. It is great to see
that people can see through that and are admiring the efforts put into this
movie by the entire team. This is for the dawn of new Pakistani cinema! And
it’s a dedication to all those brave men who sacrificed their lives to protect
the sovereignty of Pakistan.”
With
the phenomenal response that ‘Waar’ continues to receive from the audience,
there remains no doubt about the fact that ‘Waar’
is now officially the biggest Pakistani blockbuster of the decade and has been
rightly titled as “The Unstoppable Movie”.
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