Zinda Bhaag
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| Directed by |
Meenu Gaur Farjad Nabi |
| Produced by | Mazhar Zaidi |
| Starring |
Naseeruddin Shah Amna Ilyas Khurram Patras Salman Ahmad Khan Zohaib Asghar Samiya Mumtaz Rahat Fateh Ali Khan |
| Music by | Sahir Ali Bagga |
| Cinematography | Satya Rai Nagpaul |
| Edited by |
Shan Muhammed (India) Fahad Bajwa (Pakistan) Faizan Yousuf (Pakistan) |
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| Distributed by |
ARY Films Footprint Entertainment |
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Running time
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120 minutes |
| Country | Pakistan |
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Punjabi Urdu |
| Box office |
₨7.5 million (US$72,000) first week from Pakistan ₨2 crore (US$190,000) total gross from Pakistan |
Shan Muhammed (India) Fahad Bajwa (Pakistan)
₨7.5 million (US$72,000) first week from Pakistan
Zinda Bhaag (Urdu: زندہ بھاگ) is a 2013 Pakistani Punjabi-language drama film co-directed by Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi, and produced by Mazhar Zaidi. The film focuses on the issue of illegal migration. The film had a premiere show on 19 September 2013 and a wide release on 20 September. The film was selected as the Pakistani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, the first in over 50 years, but it was not nominated.
Zinda Bhaag unravels the theme of illegal immigration highlighting the issue and the epicentre of this trend within Punjab. The story of Zinda Bhaag unravels the theme of illegal immigration, called ‘dunky’. This involves inhuman and dangerous methods of crossing borders into foreign lands. It is a film about three young men trying to escape the reality of their everyday lives and succeeding in ways they had least expected. In a nondescript neighbourhood of a city within Punjab, three friends are desperate to get on to the fast track to success. Khaldi, Taambi and Chitta, all in their early twenties, believe that the only way out is to the West. The journey that unfolds through the story of this film gives us a peep into what constitutes the everyday in the lives of many young men and women in Pakistan - a sense of entitlement that cannot be fulfilled, desperation to somehow prove themselves in the face of all legitimate doors being locked and an ennui from which they feel there is no getaway.
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