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Look at my hands,

do you think they can’t earn

or cannot pay off a debt?

Then why should I take money from you?

But you don’t earn through your hands.

How do I earn?

Showing your face and body.

Look Momina, today you are doing TV, tomorrow you will do films,

you know better than me how men see women on screen.

I am not that liberal to tolerate all this.

Momina, I will take the responsibility of you and your father,

with all my heart.

I love you

and there are no favors in love,

just rights. Say something.

What can I say?

You left me nothing to say.

I don’t want to hurt you,

but I am not saying this, the world is and they will continue to.

What is wrong with you,

you always said you don’t want to act,

you are doing it out of helplessness.

Your feet are not in my shoes. So you have no idea.

Give me some time,

I will pay all the loan

and come to you.

Not a film Momina,

I cannot accept you doing a movie.

and TV?

Even if I spend my life doing the TV roles as an extra, I wont be able to pay the loan.

Why do you mention the loan again and again.

I said I will handle it,

then why don’t you listen to me

or should I also think

that you are in the habit of fame.

My parents say that a girl who comes on TV will not handle the house after marriage.

Habit of fame?

I didn’t get anything else, but Jahangir’s treatment from this work.

You know me, still you say this?

Not me, my parents are saying this.

Look I have convinced them, but it’s a difficult task.

Listen to me, mama is upset hearing you are doing a film.

Please Momina.

Ok fix your mood.

Listen, thank you.

What for?

For this decision.

I will come pick you up to select a ring tomorrow.

Momina, I will care for you and your family,

with all my love. I love you.

Komal says hello.

When I am saying I am willing to do it all why don’t you listen to me

or should I also think that you are in the habit of fame.

Look Momina, today you are doing TV, tomorrow you will do films,

you know better than me how men see women on screen.

I am not that liberal to tolerate all this.

Hello. Hello, son, how are you?

Fine.

Come inside,

why are you standing here. Come.

No actually had to take Momina for some shopping,

please send her.

Momina?

She went to America,

she said she told you.

Yes, I remember, she left a letter for you,

she told me to give it to you. You wait I will get it.

Here you go son.

Fine, I will leave now.

Hey son, you should have come and had water.

No actually, I am in a hurry,

have to take mama to the clinic.

Okay.

Bye. Say hello to mama for me. Sure.

Bye son.

Look at my hands,

do you think they can’t earn

or cannot pay off a debt? Then why should I take money from you?

But you don’t earn through your hands.

How do I earn?

Showing your face and body.

Look Momina, today you are doing TV, tomorrow you will do films,

you know better than me how men see women on screen.

I am not that liberal to tolerate all this.

Are you having fun? You must be flying high.

I am higher than that.

Higher?

There is no ground under my feet.

I wish sister has her birthday daily,

we eat so much daily. Wow.

What happened? All ok? you are not eating.

The spice is too much. Its spicy.

What?

In life.

What happened to you?

You always said you didn’t want to act,

you are doing it out of helplessness.

Your feet are not in my shoes,

you just give me some time,

I will pay off all the loan and come to you.

Not a film Momina.

I cannot accept you doing a film.

And TV?

Even if I spend my whole life working as an extra on TV, I won’t be able to pay the loan.

Why do you mention the loan again and again.

I said I will handle it,

then why don’t you listen to me

or should I also think

that you are in the habit of fame.

Hey, whats up? Hey.

I am so happy to see you coming back from Turkey.

Same here, you look nice.

You look fresh,

let me guess,

you partied a lot with Recce.

I will give you a details later, right now I have a huge surprise for you.

Surprise?

Yeah. Let me guess,

I already know.

I am the lead of this film too.

I cannot trust you, you ruined the surprise.

I am too good. Lets sit.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

I can’t believe I am doing movies with you in the same year,

I am privileged.

I have full faith in you, best of luck.

Okay listen…

Sir, how are you?

I am fine.

Ok, I wanted to ask, you did two movies this year, how does it feel?

It feels great, he is my favorite director.

I am telling you clearly Tina,

if this film doesn’t take my company as a partner,

I will end our friendship.

Ok, don’t blackmail me,

I have spoken to boss,

no brand has been finalized till yet,

you do one thing, come for a meeting after the press conference.

That’s great. Sounds good.

Yes, to start off, I am thankful to you all that

you came on a short notice for this press conference.

I am sure you must be all very curious about the film,

that I have not talked about much, so I want to tell you the details.

Firstly this film is the biggest challenge of my career.

This film is the highest budget film till date.

For the first time in his lifetime Momin is bringing two movies in one year.

He will create a storm on box office.

This year, he will rule.

Did you people talk to Momin on this movie?

Look, I don’t need to talk,

we are onboard all of his projects.

We have that kind of relationship with him.

This film is different from all other films I made,

it will be based on spirituality.

Excuse me, can you repeat the topic?

I am sure

you think you heard wrong, but the topic of the film will be spirituality.

I am often blamed that I objectify women,

and my movies are hit cause of item number and locations.

This time

I won’t make a movie about the spirit, instead of body. This time,

I will use my heroine’s body for soul searching. Food for thought.

He is under the influence, right?

For sure. Don’t know what drug.

Anyway,

I am very thankful to Shelly and Abbas,

who will be my lead for this movie.

The remaining team will be the same.

I feel dizzy,

there will be no item number, the film won’t be a hit.

He told you something,

I don’t know what I will do in a movie about spirituality.

A film on spirituality,

after so many scandals on social media.

So will the film

be an attempt on improving your image after the scandals?

Look, I am not deciding to make a film on rumors and social media scandals.

Anyway, next one.

Why do you want to make such a movie,

are you becoming a born again Muslim like the rest.

Nothing like that,

I am still a Momin in name.

The reason for making a movie on spirituality is that if I am a good film maker,

then I should be able to make a successful movie on a noncommercial topic.

Who will be the financer for the movie?

Yes, the brands have not been decided,

but this is a situation i faced in my first film too.

Then I had a line of financers,

everyone wanted to be onboard,

then we had a meeting to shortlist the financers,

so this time will be the same. As soon as we meet the brands and finalize then,

we finalize the financer, we will definitely let you know. Next one.

What will be the name of the film?

The name is not final.

and the story?

Look, like I said the theme has been finalized,

the story needs to be written, we have renowned writers in our team,

we will give a chance to the writer who fulfills the merit.

As you all know now, the films topic will be spirituality.

The story will revolve on it.

I think this is all for now, thank you all for coming.

Have a good time.

Abbas, I have a question for you.

Abbas. Excuse me. Yes..

What wardrobe will I choose in a spiritual film?

I mean, I have no scope in this.

No, let me find out the story,

there will be a scope.

Let me find out the characters.

No matter what, it’s a spiritual theme, what glamor will be there?

It’s a stupid project,

I am sorry Tina, I am not keen on doing this.

Please do it. Please.

Yes Momin, when will you start shooting Sanam?

As I told you as soon as the movie is shot, 8-10 months after that.

8-10 months,

it’s a long time.

I love that story

and my brand was keen that if the movie comes sooner.

I know.

I know. It will come when its time,

but you are more than welcome to be a part of this film.

Yes, we would love to do a project

for you but the thing is where will my brand fit in to your spiritual film.

You know we sell cellphones, there is no aspect of spirituality in this.

You do this project, for the next project, we are game.

You are saying you don’t want to be a part of this project?

No Momin,

we are interested in every project you do,

but obviously, we cannot come on-board for all projects,

we need to pick and choose.

Sanam is our type of project,

we will come on-board for that.

Fine,

okay,

I will find another brand for this movie,

there are a lot of cell phone manufacturers in the market, okay. If you will excuse me.

Take care.

What was the response of the media and brands.

Why are we doing this project?

I mean there was another project we were supposed to do.

We should focus on that, we have worked a lot on its pre-production.

Its my decision,

I will do whatever project I want, when I want.

Keep your suggestions to yourself.

Brother Momin, the interaction with the media gave weird vibes.

Everyone was asking what sort of a project are we doing?

Okay,

what else?

The brands had worse reaction,

there was a clear cut no-no on spirituality.

Shelly and Abbas had reservations,

Sophia wasn’t happy either.

Kalb-e-Momin’s biggest project has been launched

and you are saying that brands are not interested, media doesn’t like it, the actors are not interested.

Nonsense.

Absolute nonsense.

Media?

You can tell the media go away.

These brands, they need proposal

for the understanding of the project, that’s all they need.

Actors?

Actors just need money.

They will get money, they are getting the film, why would they mind?

I would still suggest that we don’t do such an ambitious project and wrap up Sanam first.

I will do this project before Sanam at all cost.

Is that understood?

You took permission from Faisal, right?

Mama, you ask me the same question,

I say yes.

I don’t know

he didn’t come back from that day,

nor did his parents contact.

Momina, is all ok?

Everyone is busy mama,

I don’t get time to talk to you guys,

why would he?

That is so weird?

Whenever you call you ask about Faisal,

nothing else.

What else?

About my film, America.

It would have been better had you not done the film.

How would we have paid the loan then?

Did you people see the headlines?

The media gave a bad response on the press conference.

Major channels ignored it.

In the news they are making fun.

I know, I have seen it.

I have another bad news for you.

What?

Telefine has said no to sponsoring Sanam.

What?

They have finalized I deal with Ahsan.

How can they do that?

Let me talk to them.

They are saying they want to do a major project in the next 4 months,

if not Sanam, then they are backing out.

This is a major project. This has it all.

They don’t want anything related to religion.

It’s a no no for them.

Religion?

This is spirituality. That is universal.

For them it’s the same thing.

What same thing?

Fundamentalism. You have to be kidding me.

Its not me, its them.

They don’t want to do anything with religion and spirituality,

it’s a no-go-area for them.

Fine.

Telefine can go to hell,

if they want to backout from the movie, I don’t want to work with them again.

All brands that contacted us for Sanam, email them,

it’s a Kalb-e-Momin film.

Any brand will come on-board.

Sir think about it once. I have.

Do what I tell you to.

Ok sir.

Are you interested in theater?

Theater?

Yes, there is a theatre in newyork doing a theater on ABCs.

American Born confused Desis,

they want some Pakistani actors too.

I have never done it.

You will do it. Its casting director asked me about you,

I said I will ask you and tell him.

What are the commercials of the project?

Negotiable.

If they pay well I will do it.

What do you mean well?

An amount that I can get a good home and pay the advance for it.

I need to empty the home.

Momina.

Don’t say I am weird, I am a weird.

I want to manage you.

I think it’s a win win situation for us.

You have a lot of potential and my connections

are with Hollywood and Bollywood.

I can make you a global star in a few years.

Are you not excited?

I am thinking.

You think too much,

that is the flaw of your character.

I am trying to tell you the potential and you are thinking something.

Stop thinking, you have to progress, become a big star,

do something for yourself,

too much of doing for others.

Do something for yourself, move ahead,

do it, don’t think,

you have everything, trust me, take a chance.

No, this is not an Indian actress,

in fact this is a Pakistani actress Momina.

Momina Sultan is a new actress so the Pakistani media has not got a lot on her…

Yes, Dawood,

are you in office? Come over quick.

Hello brother Momin.

Yes,

you got one actress for an audition,

what was her name?

Momina Sultan.

She has gone to do a film with cliff hanger.

She is in the US right now.

I saw the news.

Here she was not willing to take off her veil,

I think her rules changed when she went there.

She is doing a role of a mute Pakistani woman,

whose husband is blamed for terrorism and he commits suicide,

after that his life tries to prove him innocent.

Lame.

Anyway, go and share the schedule for tomorrow.

I will get the laptop.

Damn this man. He took my earrings. I earned hard to get it.

Find a job for me Jhumar.

There is no function right now,

when there is something,

I will come to get my makeup done.

My earrings were 1.5 tolas.

Not makeup,

some other work.

Salesman, guard.

For salesman you need to stand,

for guard you need to run.

You cannot do both,

why don’t you do what God has gifted you with.

Momina’s in-laws are really rich.

They don’t like this work,

I promised the boy I will quit it.

if you are doing this for sister Momina, then its right.

I have just one child,

I think their future is good.

If Jahangir was there,

it would be my back but… Wont you feel hurt

closing the makeup box

that has Noor Jahan’s picture.

It will hurt,

I will suffer like Husn e Jahan suffered for her child.

But being so beautiful,

she had to send him away from her.

Can I say something Jhumar.

Yes, go ahead.

After Husn e Jahan, I never wanted to open the box,

if I didn’t have to earn money, I would never have opened that box.

After Jahangir, that box has memories.

Be strong brother, look at me,

I lost my earrings. I got them from Juna Market,

worth 1.5 tolas.

I am just saying that lets work on Sanam,

then we can definitely move on to this subject,

Momin if you think of it, it’s a sensitive topic,

spirituality.

We have not pre-production, its an experiment. Shelly,

it will all be done,

I will shoot you in the time I took for Sanam.

That’s not an issue.

If there is a delay,

it will 1-2 weeks, it won’t take months.

Right,

but just a question,

what is the objection in completing Sanam before.

I told you I want to finish this project before Sanam.

I don’t get it, what issue do you have?

Everyone has issues,

look Momin,

don’t mind,

everyone is asking what is wrong with Momin,

he trying to put Sanam on hold

and make a film on spirituality.

Its not like you,

why do you experiment.

You know what,

fine.

If Abbas has an objection tell him to quit the project, same goes for you,

if you have an issue, quit.

I am tired of justifications.

Fine, it is a movie on spirituality, but it’s a Kalb-e-Momin film,

anyone will be ready to do it, you know that.

Momin,

what’s wrong with you, why are you getting so upset?

Its not like you. That’s not what I meant.

I am with you, its just that we don’t have a script

and no storyline so other people were confused,

I am with you.

Listen,

I am working on the script from tomorrow,

so don’t worry about it, ok?

Perfect,

lets have coffee.

Okay guys, I think Tina told you about the subject of the movie.

Absolutely. Yes.

I am sure you got some ideas.

I needed some reference.

What reference?

Some movie or book reference of the type of movie you want.

If that’s possible, then great.

Sir, I got some ideas

but if you can give us some reference.

Tell me. Sir, this is a spiritual story,

totally commercial.

Okay.

Starts off from a brothel.

Two prostitutes fall for a man from a syed family…Next one please.

Sir, I thought you would like it, but one second.

Another one.

At a shrine,

there is a qawali

and a girl

is there to ask for her love. The girls lover…

I am talking about making a movie on spirituality

and you people are giving me the same old shrine, girl, love.

Sorry Mr. Momin, if you tell us what you exactly want in the movie,

then it will be easy.

What do you mean what I exactly want? Spirituality.

What is spirituality?

The relation with God.

I want a story on the relatiojn with God.

If you can clarify the relation with God, it will be easier.

Relation with God.

Yes, but what is the relation with God

and what is the spirituality you want to focus on in this story.

I am not the writer, you are writers,

you should know what the director wants from you.

You are right Mr. Momin,

but directors have references.

They tell us that the character they like in a particular movie

or a real life character,

so if you can clarify spirituality and the relation with God you want to highlight.

Okay. Okay, fine.

Okay,

spirituality. Spirituality,

is relation with God,

like…

like…

like…

I am sorry. I need some time to think about this.

Okay sir.

Sure.

Lets talk on the next sitting.

Okay boss.

I am sorry.

What is spirituality?

I want a story on the relation with God.

If you clarify relation with God, it will be easy for us.

is relation with God,

like…

like…

You show bodies, your character has never touched anyone’s spirit.

Is grandfather right that I know

nothing about the spirit and spirituality

and I don’t recognize God

but how is it possible.

Can you justify the relation with God, it will be easier for us.

Relation with God…its like…its like… Why didn’t I have an answer?

Its not a difficult question.

Or maybe

its got difficult cause I have no relation with God.

Brother Momin…

Yes?

Grandfather sent this,

it came in the cargo today,

he told me to give it to you.

What’s in it?

I don’t know, should I open it.

No let it be.

These are your letters, Kalb-e-Momin.

Yes,

I used to be so stupid as a kid,

I used to write letters to God and I thought He would reply.

What answer didn’t God give you?

After these letters I met you.

I used to think

that God told you to reply to me,

so I have a lot of your letters with me.

You were really innocent back then Momin.

You wrote these letters

and did a great good, you have no idea.

These letters came and I thought the questions in my heart,

God gave me the answer for them through you.

Grandpa,

you are crying?

No, just…

I kept this for you.

I wanted to give this to you.

Keep them with you. What will I do with them?

Reading them maybe

you have another question for God.

I have no question now.

Life gave me all the answers.