Tag: Hameed Sheikh

Moor's is a beautiful story set in the backdrop of the eventual fall of Pakistan Railways, most specifically in the Zhob-Bostan areas of Balochistan province, due to the rising corruption in the department and the subsequent birth of land and route-bus mafias; spiralling and entangling the common local lives of the area and those with honest attachment to their land and Railways.

The O21 gang; from the very first day, from the very first brush of the film with the media and headlines, has propagated it to be an intelligent film, a 'brainer', perhaps the Syriana of Pakistan film industry, and well, that is exactly what I was served with.

By: Aayan Mirza If you thought Waar was a big film, this one is huge, if you thought Waar was the smartest film to come...

By Aayan Mirza Feature Image by: Zeeshan Mahmood For years the province of Balochistan has remained culturally invisible for majority of the country. Most of us...

The film mainly stars three American actors, namely, Wendy Haines, James Hallet and Joe Towne. While you will see Haines and Hallet in this episode giving their views on the different aspects of the film, also see Joe Towne and Hameed Sheikh along with other cast and crew members dancing it away and enjoying their time behind the scenes.

The storyline is based on the closure of the Zhob Valley railways in 1984. The film shows how a family is affected by growing corruption in the system. “If you start walking on the railway track in Bostan, you will see that as the tracks eventually start to disappear, so does the population in the surrounding areas,” says Jami, who co-wrote the story with Nazira Ali. (Read More)