Fawad Khan on ‘The Legend of Maula Jatt,’ ‘Ms. Marvel’ and Bollywood (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The long awaited “The Legend of Maula Jatt,” starring Pakistani superstars Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan (no relation), is set to release theatrically worldwide on Oct.
13. The Punjabi-language film, which is one of the biggest budgeted in the history of Pakistani cinema, is a reboot of Yunus Malik’s 1979 cult classic “Maula Jatt.” The film focuses on the legendary rivalry between local hero Maula Jatt and Noori Natt, the leader of a brutal gang.
Director Bilal Lashari, whose debut feature “Waar” (2013) broke box office records in Pakistan, has reimagined the story for a global audience.
The original “Maula Jatt” was released before Fawad Khan was born and his exposure to it was limited as his family spent several years away from Pakistan at the time it was gaining cult status. ” ‘Maula Jatt’ always had a cult status in Pakistani media, and because of that, we’d obviously heard of it, and who had not heard of the dialog,” Khan told Variety.
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