Film star Reema talks sense, well, most of the time. But her recent grouse about cinemas in the country is a bit baffling.

The former Lollywood leading lady believes Pakistan does not have cinema houses where films of ‘international standard’ could be screened. She deems it important that a policy be made to rectify the problem.

Seriously, Reema? I wonder what all those Hollywood film distributors whose films screen in multiplexes make of this.

Published in Dawn, ICON, April 16th, 2017

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