Today, I give 'The Legend of Maula Jatt' to the audiences of the world: Bilal Lashari

Filmmaker finally closes a memorable chapter as he pens down a fitting note to bid his dream project farewell

It's taken a decade of filmmaker Bilal Lashari's life and today, he's handing his fruit of labour to the world. The Legend of Maula Jatt is releasing in cinemas today and as Lashari finally closes a memorable chapter in his book, he penned down a fitting note to bid his dream project farewell. 

"An impossible dream, that is who you were a decade ago," the 38-year-old director shared on his Instagram story ahead of the star-studded premiere of his reinvention of the 1979 classic. "Today, you are real, no more a figment of my imagination or a project of a dreamer. What a journey it has been!"

 

He added, "How do I describe you? My mentor, my dearest friend, the one who brought to me binding friendships, a dream team and a lifetime of stories that will outlive life itself? But every storyteller, every dreamer has to part with the story told, the dream realised, so my friend, today I give you to the audiences of the world. You belong to them now, so live your life among them."

Lashari concluded, "Tonight, it's finally time for me to let you go. And you have to let me go to go dream again an untold story of another realm."

Earlier, in an interview with The Express Tribune, the director spoke about his upcoming ventures. "I didn't want to take another job unless this film has been released. Maula Jatt has consumed me and has been my focus from the get-go. There were a lot of reasons for this," he had shared. 

"Apart from being the director, I was wearing a lot of other hats for this film; from the screenplay writer to director of photography to editing and adding on to the visual effects. I'm feeling the burnout. I need to get closure on this before I commit myself to another project," Lashari had commented.