Slackistan almost became that movie that people talked of so much that you no longer want to watch it. It's not like they talked about it; just how they weren't able to see it anywhere. The censor board apparently have their knickers in knots about a story of young people figuring out their lives and have banned the film in Pakistan. But if that Islamabadi girl I knew of from school could end up on the internet without her permission, why couldn't this movie too? I was under the impression that there was no sort of intellectual property that you can't pirate on the internet and I used to smirk thinking that when the grand time did come for I and all my ego to find the movie, we'd find it. The 15th page of "slackistan torrents" had me quitting and checking "dealing with failure" instead.
The incident reminded me of another time when I was looking for another desi movie that was proving itself hard to find. It was International Gorillay (1990) starring the who's who of Lollywood back in the day. The quest for this movie led me to the shadiest part of Rainbow Centre and even then I couldn't find it. It was available for $15 from a guy in Arkansas who dealt in cult but he would take cash only and that kinda killed it.
The premise was kept rather simple where a band of crooks and thieves reform themselves and then set out to kill ... Salman Rushdie. This Salman Rushdie is like a crime kingpin who is hell bent on destroying Islam as we know it ... by building casinos and making Babra Shareef dance. This Salman Rushdie also dies at the miraculous hands of ... the trinity of holy books ... that shoot lightning. Now this could be the work of opportunists who rushed to take advantage of the anti-Rushdie fervour that was spreading at that time OR I had acid and dreamt all that. Unfortunately for all of us, it's probably the former.
If anyone does have the film or would like to meet a paranoid dude in Arkansas for this brilliant cause, you know where to find me.
Next topic: Whatever happened to Babra Shareef? And can her dance really kill Islam? Stay tuned...
The incident reminded me of another time when I was looking for another desi movie that was proving itself hard to find. It was International Gorillay (1990) starring the who's who of Lollywood back in the day. The quest for this movie led me to the shadiest part of Rainbow Centre and even then I couldn't find it. It was available for $15 from a guy in Arkansas who dealt in cult but he would take cash only and that kinda killed it.
The premise was kept rather simple where a band of crooks and thieves reform themselves and then set out to kill ... Salman Rushdie. This Salman Rushdie is like a crime kingpin who is hell bent on destroying Islam as we know it ... by building casinos and making Babra Shareef dance. This Salman Rushdie also dies at the miraculous hands of ... the trinity of holy books ... that shoot lightning. Now this could be the work of opportunists who rushed to take advantage of the anti-Rushdie fervour that was spreading at that time OR I had acid and dreamt all that. Unfortunately for all of us, it's probably the former.
If anyone does have the film or would like to meet a paranoid dude in Arkansas for this brilliant cause, you know where to find me.
Next topic: Whatever happened to Babra Shareef? And can her dance really kill Islam? Stay tuned...
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