Rescued and revamped: 'Project Ghazi' to finally release on March 22

KARACHI:

Project Ghazi, billed as Pakistan’s first superhero film, is finally releasing after a year and half of it's premiere night back in July 2017.

The film was postponed right after its premiere in July 2017. Now, the film is all set to release on March 22 this year.

Project Ghazi received harsh criticism on premier night after technical issues such as sound design forced the producers to delay the release.

 

 

 

 

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Speaking with The Express Tribune, lead actor Humayun Saeed admitted that the film was incomplete. “I have worked in the film so I knew the dialogues but even I couldn’t understand anything. Project Ghazi relies heavily on dialogues to explain the storyline and if it’s inexplicable, there is no point. The film cannot be judged right now.”

 

The actor said he had been telling the producers to postpone it for about a month.

 

 

 

 

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“Project Ghazi has potential as a film, so why not wait and deliver a better product to the masses? I don’t know but maybe the producers were under some pressure from the brands or something that made them continue with the premiere,” Saeed noted. “He said it wasn’t that bad but I literally walked out halfway because I knew I’d have to stop it from releasing.”

Saeed shared that most local films suffered from bad sound because “we are not good at it.” That’s why, we go abroad to fix our sound. “We dub the dialogues usually. Even India does, because we don’t have the equipment and expertise to sync it on location. For Project Ghazi, we didn’t do dubbing so I knew something was going to go wrong.”

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