The 2022 Pakistani film “The Legend of Maula Jatt” broke the country’s box office records. It should be headed for screenings in India right now, but politics got in the way, keeping an ad hoc ban in place that prevents the two countries from sharing films. As we hear, the musical production values in “The Legend of Maula Jatt” are still what we’ve come to expect from either Bollywood or Pakistan’s equivalent, Lollywood.
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