Comprehensive book on history of Pashto movies launched
Sher Alam Shinwari
PESHAWAR: Senior writer, Haji Aslam Khan has brought out a comprehensive book, titled ‘Pakhto Filmoona’ (Pashto movies) that covers the brief history of Pashto film industry.
The book is spread over 600 pages, mentions background information of the first ever Pashto movie ‘Laila Majnoon’ released in pre-partition era in 1941 in Mumbai followed by ‘Yousaf Khan Sher Bano’ released in 1971 and the list goes on to 782 Pashto films.
The author said he had documented the complete profiles of film actors/actresses, directors, playback singers, musicians, producers, financiers, choreographers, script writers, songwriters, promoters and even cinema theatres along with beautiful and rare photographs and makeup artists. Earlier, he had published a huge book ‘Tair Hair Awazoona’ (The Forgotten Voices) which was widely acclaimed by readers and researchers alike.
“The book took me several years to collect rare references, including photographers, film posters, storyboards, interviews with senior and surviving artists and suffering old archives for the scripts was indeed a tough job but I was able to put them together and I hope it will prove a crash course for the film critiques,” Mr Khan said.
The book he claimed was the first ever of its kind as it contained authentic information regarding Pashto cinema and almost everything related to Pashto film industry. “Also my book provides the reasons of the fall and rise of the Pashto cinema, its quality, music, contents, representation and reflection of Pakhtun cultural, social and political life,” the writer added.
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