{"id":23252,"date":"2026-07-03T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/government-support-young-independent-filmmakers-ehteshamuddin\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:24:01","slug":"government-support-young-independent-filmmakers-ehteshamuddin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=23252","title":{"rendered":"The government should support young independent filmmakers, says director Ehteshamuddin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific actor, writer, and an established director, Mohammed Ehteshamuddin, has given us a hit film like <em>Superstar<\/em> and the next in line is <em>Dum Mastam. <\/em>The man of many talents has given critically acclaimed dramas like <em>Aseerzadi, Sadqay Tumhare<\/em><em>, Udaari <\/em>and<em> Aangan<\/em>. He has acted in several films like <em>Maalik <\/em>and <em>Actor in Law<\/em> but his character in drama serial <em>Yaqeen Ka Safar<\/em> left an everlasting impression. With this and so much more under his belt, he has enough experience to comment on the current state of the film industry of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The director took to Instagram and shared his thoughts on how government should help the film industry. This appears to be his response to the film\/entertainment policy that the government will soon be announcing, as promised by Senator Faisal Javed Khan and Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Established film producers are already investing their money in the film business. The government&#8217;s short-term investment with the same people (who are) already producing films is going to yield the same results,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a title=\"PIFF 2021 organizes a solution-driven seminar on growth of Pakistani films in global market\" href=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/piff-2021-organizes-a-solution-driven-seminar-on-growth-of-pakistani-films-in-global-market\/\">PIFF 2021 organizes a solution-driven seminar on growth of Pakistani films in global market<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ehteshamuddin believes that young filmmakers are the best target for investment to reap benefits in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the government wants to make a long-term investment, it should support young independent filmmakers who can tell their diverse stories. Short subject films on today&#8217;s topics. Through their stories, they can express their thoughts and feelings, with which they can relate,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload_inited aligncenter size-full wp-image-75136\" src=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/images\/2021\/06\/FotoJet-12.jpg\" alt=\"Ehteshamuddin\" width=\"961\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government should provide financial assistance to to young independent filmmakers to produce ten short films, instead of a big budget feature film so that we can get ten new young filmmakers who can be beneficial for our film industry in the future,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Fawad Chaudhry <a href=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/pakistan-to-offer-loans-worth-pkr-5-crore-to-filmmakers-says-fawad-chaudhry\/\">announced<\/a> that &#8220;a loan worth up to Rs 5 billion will be offered to budding drama and filmmakers under the Kamyab Jawan Programme.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director believes that young filmmakers are the best target for investment to reap benefits in the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-23252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-ehteshamuddin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}