Lollywood film actresses of the ’90s and their grouse about contemporary Pakistani films not having a ‘story’ is getting a bit too much.

First it was Resham who cribbed that nowadays the films being made in the country don’t have a storyline, and now it’s the white-as-cream, heavy-duty adakara Saima who is complaining about the same thing.

I fail to understand what they mean by ‘kahani’ or story in a movie. If they feel that the film in which women jumping around in sugarcane fields had storylines then nobody’s going back to that era. Rest assured.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, August 4th, 2016

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