London, Feb. 7 (TNS): Azfar Jafri’s latest offering, Parchi, broke taboos with Hareem Farooq playing the badass Eman, who dominates the movie with her acting prowess.
Parchi became the first Pakistani movie to be screened in Saudi Arabia after the government lift ban on cinemas after 30 years. Apart from Saudi Arabia, the movie released in the UK, the US and Canada.
While the movie nears Rs20 crore worldwide, Parchi fared better at the box office among other local winter releases in Pakistan.
In a recent interview with BBC Asian Network, Hareem opened up about how Parchi managed to break, not just box office records, but stereotypes as well.
“It’s an action, comedy movie. We’ve tried to experiment a bit. We’ve tried to introduce a lot of new faces. We’ve tried to introduce a new kind of comedy which hasn’t been done in Pakistani cinema recently, which is situational comedy,” says Hareem.
Praising her co-stars, the starlet said, “Parchi a lot of fun, full of amazing actors like Ali Rehman Khan, Usman Mukhtar, Ahmed Ali Afzal who definitely deserve to be on big screen. They’ve done a brilliant job.”
