The event which was organised to launch the music of the film Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai on Aug 10 in Karachi turned out to be a little litmus test for its director Anjum Shahzad’s patience with the media.

When a journalist asked him about the box office performance of his previous offering Mah-i-Mir, he first tried to be flippant with him, saying the audience was not intelligent enough to understand it, and then a little later requested another pen-pusher to ask questions unrelated to Mah-i-Mir.

I understand the kind of pressures that directors have to work under, but Anjum S should realise that film-making is essentially an art meant for public consumption. And if the public doesn’t like it, one has to be prepared to face all kinds of queries. This means, he should also be ready to receive questions on Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai’s box office report on Eidul Azha.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine August 21st, 2016