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The romance and the Kalashnikov: Pashtun cinema reborn
Pashto cinema may have survived attacks but it will take longer for a day at the movies to be a family activity again
In this photograph taken on June 9, 2015, Pakistani actor Shahid Khan (C) takes part in the filming of a scene with actresses during the shooting of Pashto film "Ma Chera Gharib Sara" (Don't Pester the Poor) in Murree, some 65kms north of Islamabad.
PHOTO: AFP
PESHAWAR: Their tunics drenched in sweat, hundreds gather by the big screen, shouting and dancing their pride in being Pashtun amid clouds of hashish. In Peshawar, devastated by a decade of terrorism, this is how cinema is done now the local film industry is enjoying a renaissance.
In the packed, concrete Arshad Cinema in Peshawar, the air conditioning has failed rendering the darkened room a kind of bathhouse filled with the steam of hashish smoke.
No matter -- the spectators have fallen silent -- gripped by a turnin