Best cinema, from Peshawar This road has got a historical background ,mainly there use to be three cenimas,Picture House,Novelty & Tasveer Mahal,but now as mostly the cinema buildings in peshawar have been demolished due to financial crises and security threats. Cinema goers are loosing interest in cinemas due to availability of films on Internet. Some of the cinemas are centuries old. Cinemas in any society play a vital and important part in providing entertainment at less cost and that is easy to reach. But in Peshawar, the curtains has fallen to the cinema culture due to a number of reasons. These include changing of cinema houses into departmental stores, plaza’s and other buildings, increasing militancy and law and order situation in the provincial metropolis, popularity of cable in almost every house, easy access of movies through CDs, revealimages1s a survey done by The Frontier Post. The number of cinegoers have dropped almost 50 percent and similarly the quality of the films produced by Pakistan in any of its language have been on constant decline from the past two decades. There was a time when the city had almost 14 cinema houses but now it has only 10 in number. The owners of the four other cinema houses have razed the buildings to construct commercial plazas. The few of cinema theatres which are showing films are deprived of visitors due to a number of reasons which mainly include security concerns, lack of support from the government, poor quality of Pakistani films, poor quality of cinema houses and unfavourable environment, have prevented people to come out to enjoy movies on the 70 mm screen. Palwasha Cinema, Novelty Cinema, Metro Cinema and Falak Sair Cinema, all are now part of history. The remaining cinemas housesare Sabrina Cinema, Arshad Cinema (Khyber Bazaar), Tasweer Mehal and Picture House (Cinema Road), Naz Cinema (Hospital Road), Firdaus Cinema (GT Road), Capital Cinema (Saddar), Shama Cinema (Pajjagi Road) and PAF Cinema (Cantonment Area). The facilities provided in these cinema houses are not even near to the standards.[3] The owners of the four other - Back to the future Shinwari remembers the late 1970s as an amazing era for the emerging Pashto film industry. Eminent Pashto-language writers, producers, directors, actors and actresses had given Pashto films a prominent place in the world of cinema. These films were shown throughout the country before the industry crumbled due to terrorism and the lack of investment. As the situation deteriorated, so did the quality of the Pashto cinema. The journalist recalls that visitors from Afghanistan and other areas of Pakistan would never leave Peshawar without watching Pashto films. There was, he believes, a deliberate effort which aided the decline of the film industry while Ziaul Haq was in power. In the 1980s, he says, the standard of Pashto movies fell; soon obscenity became synonymous with Pashto cinema.

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