Are Pashto movies produced in Lahore true reflection of Pashtun culture?

[Shapur]

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[Shapur]

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[Kakar-Wardak]

no there not, also the pashtun actors in the film all look like shudras, probably pashtunized hindowkhans.

[Nekrofrost]

These ilaqai(they exist among the rest of pakistan as well) movies dont represent the cultures but mostly just the certain subcultures among pashtuns,punjabis,etc. These movies represent the charsian and malangan subculture going on with pashtuns. The mujras i know happen for sure as youtube is filled with it but the gun slinging is overexaggerated. Tbh these movies are for the most part just really bad attemps to make westerns(clint eastwood kinda cowboy movies) and end up becoming the abomination they are.

[Shapur]

These ilaqai(they exist among the rest of pakistan as well) movies dont represent the cultures but mostly just the certain subcultures among pashtuns,punjabis,etc. These movies represent the charsian and malangan subculture going on with pashtuns.

Please don't disrespect Malangan by putting them in same category as these people. Malangan have been part of Pashtun society since the dawn of Islam. Some people don't undrestand the meaning of Sufi poetry and take it literally.

The mujras i know happen for sure as youtube is filled with it but the gun slinging is overexaggerated. Tbh these movies are for the most part just really bad attemps to make westerns(clint eastwood kinda cowboy movies) and end up becoming the abomination they are.

Yeah, It might not be as sinister as some would suggest calling it a conspiracy against Pukhtun youth. It might be just a lack of creativity and bad attempt of combining Pashtun version of Westerns with a bollywood twist.

[dawn]

These movies are exaggerated. They got popular along with punjabi movies in 80's. Pashto movies are known for softcorn porn in Pakistan. But now as it happened with punjabi movies, pashto movies are also on decline. In fact I would say their era is basically over. Once Peshawar get modern multiplexes by next year, they will have to either adapt or loss market to urdu/bollywood/hollywood which are more family friendly.

BTW I had no idea pashto movies are produced in Lahore. It doesn't matter though because producers, directors, actors are all pakhtuns. Now Lahore industry is in decline and media houses have basically shifted to Karachi despite Punjab/KPK overall being way bigger market for movies then Karachi. I see pashto/punjabi movies surge but not right now, maybe in 5 years time or never and urdu will dominate from now on.

[Nekrofrost]

Please don't disrespect Malangan by putting them in same category as these people. Malangan have been part of Pashtun society since the dawn of Islam. Some people don't undrestand the meaning of Sufi poetry and take it literally.




Yeah, It might not be as sinister as some would suggest calling it a conspiracy against Pukhtun youth. It might be just a lack of creativity and bad attempt of combining Pashtun version of Westerns with a bollywood twist.

Sorry my bad. I guess that "charsiyan di ka malangan di atol zama yaran di" song was in my head during the time but yeah youre right.

[Iblis_Efreetzai]

Malang use chars for entheogenic purposes; the charsiyan, are just vagabonds and luchak

[Charsi Malang]

Some valid points in some of the videos but made by the actors. If people didn't watch and enjoy these films then they wouldn't be produced. It's more a representation of what cinema goers like watching. More of a reflection of the mindset of the public who go to the cinema. The host is taking a very lofty moral highground. Unbelievably patronising. I wonder why he couldn't secure an interview with the directors who make these films as opposed to the actors themselves who are just acting for money.