The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
Sharmeen Obaid-ChinoyBut the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.
Sharmeen Obaid-ChinoyI grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy