Cinemas in Pakistan will start screening Indian movies from December 19, media reported.
The cinema houses’ owners said that they had only suspended the screening of Indian films but had not banned completely.
“The suspension that was in place will be lifted on December 19,” confirmed Nadeem Mandviwala of Atrium cinemas.
He explained that the movies which were missed and could not be screened due to the suspension will be screened first.
“We lifted the ban as a cinema guild. We took this decision because we would like to support them and expect them to support us,” said Aadil Mandviwala.
The first film to be screened will be actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Freaky Ali.
On September 30, the management of Pakistani cinemas, Lahore’s Super Cinemas and Karachi’s Nueplex and Atrium cinemas, announced their decision to indefinitely cease the screening of all Indian films as a protest against the ban of Pakistani artists in India and to show solidarity with the armed forces of Pakistan.
The move to suspend screening of Indian movies came as a tit for tat move after the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association (IMPPA) banned Pakistani actors, singers and technicians from working in India till “normalcy” returns.
