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Na Maloom Afraad is a Pakistanais film of genre Thriller with Javed Sheikh

Na Maloom Afraad (2014)

Na Maloom Afraad
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Length 2h17
OriginPakistan
Genres Thriller,    Comedy
Rating73% 3.697023.697023.697023.697023.69702

Na Maloom Afraad (Urdu: نا معلوم افراد‎; meaning Unknown People), is a 2014 Pakistani comedy thriller film co-written and directed by Nabeel Qureshi as his directorial debut. It stars Javed Sheikh, Fahad Mustafa, Mohsin Abbas Haider with supporting cast of Urwa Hocane, Kubra Khan and Salman Shahid. The story follows Shakeel (Sheikh), Farhaan (Mustafa) and Moon (Haider), three poor struggling individuals who chase every possible means of becoming rich, all getting into trouble as they struggle to fulfill their desires and ambitions through questionably moral ways.

Most of the Na Maloom Afrad shots were filmed in real locations of Saddar Town, maintaining the authenticity of scenes and staying true to actual content; many elements of post-production required consideration before principal photography. The script was written years before the shooting, the cast went through meticulous rehearsals, and it became the one of few films that is developed completely in Pakistan. The film was shot in Karachi during the January of 2014 with a budget of ₨9 crore (US$880 000) jointly franchised by Hum Films, Filmwala Pictures and Eveready Pictures. It premiered the following year in November where it closed the South Asian International Film Festival 2014.

Na Maloom Afraad had a wide theatrical release in Pakistan on October 6, 2014 at Eid al-adha, followed by a release in UK on May 22, 2015 which has grossed ₨14.0 crore (US$1 4 million) worldwide. The film garnered wide critical praise. At 3rd Hum Awards film was awarded Hum Honorary Special Recognition Award to Nabeel and Fizza. The film became the most nominated film of the Lux's 14th annual awards ceremony in film section with total of seven nominations in four categories, ultimately winning Best Film for Fizza, Best Director for Nabeel and Best Actor for Javed.

It became first Pakistani film since 2007 to make a milestone of longest running film for 165 days (22 weeks) breaking the record of Waar who previously held for 163 days.

Synopsis

Farhan (Fahad Mustafa), is a sales representative at IFU life insurance company in Karachi and is fired after he fails to materialize any deal in a year. Moon (Mohsin Abbas Haider), who hails from Punjab (Faisalabad), has a dream of going to Dubai, but ends up coming to Karachi while his family continues to believe he is living in Dubai and Shakeel bhai (Javed Shaikh), an honest man who works as a government servant and owner of homemade pickle business 'Shama Achar' is under pressure to get his younger sister Naina (Urwa Hocane) married, but can't manage to do so due to financial constraints. Farhan is a paying-guest of Shakeel and is in love with his sister.

Actors

Javed Sheikh

(Shakeel Ansari)Salman Shahid

(Gogi)Fahad Mustafa

(Farhan Ahmed)Urwa Hocane

(Naina)Mohsin Abbas Haider

(Moon, a call operator at Karachi Electricity)
And :
Nayyar Ejaz
Kubra Khan
Mehwish Hayat
Zaheen Tahira
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