SHOWGIRLS OF PAKISTAN

By Saad Khan

OTHER MEMORY MEDIA - as PROD / FIN

unknown - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2020
First Appearance competiton
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • unknown
    • Countries
    • CANADA, PAKISTAN, USA
    • Languages
    • URDU
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Saad Khan
    • Producer(s)
    • Anam Abbas
    • Synopsis
    • This film follows the lives of three working class dancers living on the fringes of Pakistani society.
      In Lahore, Afreen Khan dances under state censorship in a theater, moving from one controversy to the next as she tries to catapult herself to stardom.
      In Multan, Uzma is a small-town showgirl controlled by her manager and boyfriend, Imran. We see Uzma face betrayal from Imran and lash back with a vengeance.
      Reema Jaan, an aging transwoman, and once a stage star, is now broke and torn between dependency on her boyfriend or on her third gender community. She longs for the glory of her past.