Lyari A Prison Without Wall (Film Screening)


Lyari, where is our main stream media that always show the negativity of Lyari. on the other side there are lots of activities which are going on in Lyari.Our Media is not showing that image of Lyari. Lyari is the Hub of creativity, Talent, artists and many more things.

Today my topic of discussion is about Lyari, Lyari is also called the Mini Brazil, They love  football  so deep and you will find  one footballer in every house, with more than 100 football clubs and 3 stadiums that’s why call Lyari a mini Brazil.
Another Name of it is the boxing hub of Pakistan where Lyari is creating boxers for Pakistan with the production of male boxer there are lots of Female boxers in Lyari and it was only  Lyari which provides us national boxing champions like Jan Mohammad Baloch and Syed Hussain Shah from Lyari.
So if i talk about the film makers which are making difference, Showing Lyari peaceful thorough their films and photography.





Now a female film maker’s also taking part to showing the positive image of Lyari, as we can see that the young generation of the Lyari is rising and inspiring others. Nazeen Baloch is one of them, a young film director, graduated in film and TV from Iqra University. Nazeen did a great job by coming forward to portray they true side of Lyari and also to aware people through film about the social issue with Lyari people.


The Screening of the film was held at Art council where the auditorium was full packed with audience and the audience enjoyed very much the Title song “Yeh Basti hai Lyari” of film and the music performance of Sami Amiri, People watched the movie and gave very much appreciation to them because the movie was well directed and produced, The team of “A Prison without wall” was happy because the guest and audience gave a stand up ovation to the whole team.


The Film Reveals the life in society of Lyari where a family who has stuck between problems of life like poverty, social injustice and needs. This film is all about the life of a young footballer to show his struggle throughout his journey. Film highlights the issues faced by every ordinary people of the society.
Nazeen talked about the name of this film that why we chosen this name because we have lots of talent but we are bound in the walls of poverty and social injustice, she said we have to give chance to every individual to showcase their talent in front of others. We all have to work together against the poverty and social injustice in the society.




She further said she will be working more through film making to show the positive side of Lyari that the Lyari people are not gangster they are peaceful and the real talent of Pakistan.
Ahsan Shah the Producer, Associate director and Co-writer of this film is an international Award winning Filmmaker and a Photographer, he was happy to see the audience supported them from all over Karachi, many great filmmakers, artists and journalist gave them good feedback about their hard work and film screening.
Nadir Shah Adil was senior journalist and well know experience writer from Lyari gave  the introduction about Lyari History, he said that it’s hard to introduce the Lyari talent in words because Lyari if full of talent and artists. He was also happy to see the Lyari youth is participating in different positive activities throughout the Pakistan.



So congrats to the team of Lyari A prison without wall, they did a tremendous job by showcasing the face of Lyari, hope to see more good work from Lyari film makers.