Time was when there were over 2500 cinema houses in Pakistan. It was the time when Lollywood was in full bloom. The films produced then competed well with the old Bollywood movies that used to be exhibited up to 1965 in our cinema houses. Censor board came down with a heavy hand on those films which were obscene which were banned for exhibition in cinema houses.
By Syed Mazhar Ali in shah
Today the number of cinema houses in the country has shrunk to about 100 ‘-thanks to the falling standards of Lollywood films with the result that cinema owners had to convert their cinema houses into either shopping plazas or wedding halls. With the closure of cinema houses thousands of persons employed in the cinema houses in various capacities were rendered job less. Besides, the common man was deprived of a monetarily cheap source of entertainment.
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The filthy rich in this country live in posh bungalows and farm houses worth crores of rupees. More than one costly cars and jeeps are parked in their car porchs. They travel abroad more than once every year. Their offsprings study in educational institutions in this country where tuition fee is charged in dollars or they study abroad. The expenditure incurred by them on their life style is documented. No further inquiry is needed on this score. One wonders why they aren’t brought under heavy tax net. If those govt officials whose job it is to levy tax and then recover it from them aren’t punished for dereliction of their duty and made an example of by hanging them from lamp post before public eye no filthy rich can be made to cough out the income or wealth tax. We had better follow the example of what Chinese government has been doing with the filthy rich if we are to make them pay their due taxes.
