The newly available Indian films drew hundreds of thousands of viewers, and multiplexes were built to meet the demand. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut the film industry is still a long way from its peak. “Every two years, one film does really well,” said Hasan Zaidi, a filmmaker who helped establish the Kara Film Festival in 2001 in response to the declining state of the Pakistani film industry. “So the momentum that had been building since the mid-2000s was broken, and investors got scared again,” Mr. Zaidi said. “With no people to fill the cinemas, many Pakistani film projects were canned.

Source: New York Times December 25, 2017 08:15 UTC