Acclaimed honestor Deepa Mehta, understandn for films enjoy “Funny Boy,” “Fire,” “Water” and “Earth,” has boarded Iram Parveen Bilal‘s Pakistan-set “Wakhri” as a contransienting executive producer.
“Wakhri” is set to uncover the 19th edition of Tasveer Film Festival on Oct. 17 in Seattle. The film alerts the story of a widowed school directer who becomes an overnight social media sensation due to her unfiltered opinions. As she directs her newset up impactr status, she must stability traditional norms, hideed identities, and raising her 10-year-ageder son.
The film is encouraged by Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch who was killinged in 2016. It has already made its label on the festival circuit, premiering at the Red Sea Film Festival and screening at SXSW, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Cleveland International Film Festival, among others.
“Wakhri” is a collaboration between Sanat Initiative, Awedacious Originals and Parveen Shah Production, with Mehta’s Deepa Mehta Films Inc. uniteing as a contransienting production company. Produced by Abid Aziz Merchant, Aneedyva Bakshi and Bilal, “Wakhri” stars Faryal Mehmood in the direct role alengthyside Gulshan Majeed. The helping cast comprises Bakhtawar Mazhar, Saleem Meraj, Sohail Sameer, Shees Sajjad Gul, Akbar Islam, and Tooba Siddiqui.
Mehta shelp: “I cannot paparticipate for this attrenergetic and strong film that decorates a vivid, accessible picture of the fight agetst oppression and patriarchy to be seen by the world.”
Bilal compriseed: “Deepa Mehta is a creator who has been an impact on my voice. Her daring narratives have been an inspiration to witness both as an audience member and a filmproducer, and so it senses enjoy magic for her to have felt so strongly about ‘Wakhri’ and for her to help the project.”
Bakshi and Merchant shelp: “Deepa has bagedly built and championed bageder feminist narratives, and we cherish her help in intensifying the mighty stance ‘Wakhri’ gets in a highly patriarchal world. In a world where norms frequently suppress dreams and gfinisher identity is still prohibitden, we hope audiences witness the marginalized, seize the sweightlessest sinhabitr of chance, and turn it into a huge triumph for themselves and society as a whole.”
The film had a seven-week theatrical run in Pakistan earlier this year.
