Karachi Lahore (2015)

Directed by

Wajahat Rauf

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

Pakistan

How it feels

A young man from Karachi travels to Lahore to stop his arranged marriage. He ends up on a funny journey with a group of people from different backgrounds.

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What happens

Karachi Lahore is a series of Pakistani road comedy romantic films directed by Wajahat Rauf and written by Yasir Hussain. The first film of the series was released in 2015. Karachi Se Lahore, featured an ensemble cast including Shehzad Sheikh and Ayesha Omer playing lead roles. Whereas Javed Sheikh, Yasir Hussain, Ahmed Ali Akbar, Eshita Syed, Aashir Wajahat, Mantaha Tareen Maqsood and Rasheed Naz all played supporting roles. In its opening weekend, the film collected Rs. 2 crores at the local box office and at the end of its run, film reached the benchmark of Rs. 10.30 crores. It became the first Pakistani film to be premiered in Hollywood. After the success of the first film the spin-off sequel titled Lahore Se Aagey was released in 2016. With Yasir playing as a lead, alongside Saba Qamar, the film did well at the box office, earning more than Rs. 21 crores at the box office and became the 4th highest-grossing film of 2016. After the success of first two films, director Wajahat Rauf announced that a third film titled, Karachi-Lahore-Karachi would sometime around 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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