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Completed Projects

Threadbare A film about Canada's War on Terror. 40 minutes.
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Road to Shangri-La Written, directed and edited by Arshad Khan

Road to Shangri-La is a powerful documentary short about the misery and mayhem caused by the October 2005 earthquake upon the children of Kashmir. Narrated by Arshad Khan to the poetic writing of Salman Rushdie, the film uses the story of the Pied Piper as an analogy for the earthquake killer that took away the children of Kashmir. It  documents the travels of plastic surgeon Talat Chughtai as he treats children with severe head injuries and
limb amputations.

Road to Shangri la is an emotional journey through the mountains and devastated landscapes of Kashmir, Pakistan. It documents the beauty of the land and the people and the plight of the poor and downtrodden in that country.

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[Zidi Larki]
(Stubborn Girl)

Running time: 5:45 minutes
Written, edited and directed by Arshad Khan
Co-editor: Nabil Mehchi

On December 10th 2007 sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez's father strangled her to death. The Pakistani community newspapers in Toronto labelled her "ziddi larki"- stubborn girl. This shocking lack of recognition of domestic violence is the inspiration for this experimental short film. Atif Siddiqi (a Pakistani male) portrays a female character that leads a seemingly ordinary life with a tragic ending. The use of a trans-gender Pakistani male in this film is symbolic of our dual nature as human beings. The gender-bending places the male under scrutiny and attempts to expose the fear of the heterosexual male; the fear of female power and deep seeded
homophobia that leads men to commit acts of violence often against the women in their lives.
The peacock is a creature in nature that is more vibrant and flamboyant than the female and as protector of paradise is said to have allowed Satan into the Garden of Eden.

Would Aqsa deserve this fate if she was mislead by the "evil of modernity"?

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Projects Under Development

Faultline - Daraar

A Film about the line that divides

Brief Synopsis: A devastating earthquake forms the figurative and literal metaphor for the lives of the characters in Fault line (Daraar). It is a film about the formation of an unlikely friendship between two people: a wealthy, introverted Canadian plastic surgeon and a poor, young, adventurous, Pakistani taxi driver. Set to the backdrop of a country reeling from a natural disaster and wrapped in ethno-religious turmoil, Fault line is a poetic tale of romance, beauty and transformation.

Format: Feature Film

Duration: 100 minutes

Language: English, Urdu and Punjabi (less than 40% in subtitles)

Production Budget: $3,000,000

Current Stage: Development

Production Schedule:
Development:  March, 2008- August 2008
Pre-Production: September, 2008- December, 2008
Production: January, 2009-  March, 2009
Post- Production: April, 2009- August, 2009


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