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Abid Hussain

Pakistani film to release in India after 11 years amid blowback

Fawad Khan, star of The Legend of Maula Jatt, in a scene from the film (Handout by Geo, the film's producers)

Islamabad, Pakistan – A blockbuster Pakistani movie, The Legend of Maula Jatt, is poised to become the first film from the country in more than a decade to be released in India on December 30, marking a tentative cultural breakthrough in the tense ties between the South Asian neighbours.

An adaptation of the 1979 cult classic Maula Jatt, 38-year-old director Bilal Lashari’s movie will be released in Indian Punjab and in select cinemas in Delhi, confirmed Rajender Singh Jyala, chief programming officer of INOX Leisure, an Indian multiplexes chain.

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