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Zinda Bhaag is a Pakistanais film of genre Drama with Naseeruddin Shah
Zinda Bhaag (2013)
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Add to a movie listZinda 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 had a premiere show on September 19, 2013 and a wide release on September 20. 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.
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Zinda Bhaag 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 Lahore, 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.Actors
Naseeruddin Shah
(Puhlwan)
Amna Ilyas
(Rubina)
Khurram Patras
(Khaldi)
Zohaib Asghar
(Taambi)
Samiya Mumtaz
(Cameo)
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