{"id":65836,"date":"2022-12-17T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=65836"},"modified":"2022-12-17T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T08:57:06","slug":"interfaith-star-crossed-lovers-to-face-off-in-the-first-ever-unromantic-thriller-marya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-entertainment-news\/interfaith-star-crossed-lovers-to-face-off-in-the-first-ever-unromantic-thriller-marya\/","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith star-crossed lovers to face off in the first ever Unromantic Thriller, MARYA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi (PNI) The upcoming feature film, by award-wining filmmaker from Karachi will explore the theme of interfaith marriage between a poor Christian girl and a London-returned Muslim boy of a well-off family from Karachi. This is a story of a Goan origin, orphan daughter who lives with her mother and brother, settled in the port city of Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The director of Marya, Khalid Hasan Khan told \u201cI developed the screenplay as an Unromantic Thriller based on an original story by Shamim Ahmed Sherazi, a renowned poet\u201d. It is a tale of a Christian girl who marries a Muslim boy, after being surprisingly proposed by him. The girl finds herself in an unbelievable situation, when she refuses to accept the proposal. The fateful life of Marya is further rocked by a complicating development when she later on comes across a family experiencing gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>The feature film cast includes Danish Wakeel, Dania Khan, Hammad Hussain, Shamim Ahmed Sherazi, Omar Iqbal, Sumaira Khan, Bushra Nayyar, M. A. Shaikh and Sham. M.T. Shaheryar is the director of photography with Talal Farhat as the associate producer for the project. The film is being co-produced by Khalid Hasan Khan and Shamim Ahmed Sherazi with Imran Shaikh and Syed Ovais Ali as associate producers. Zafar Malik is the executive producer of MARYA.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid Hasan Khan has written the screenplay for the feature film MARYA, he is also directing the motion picture. The director is an award-winning filmmaker, a graduate from New York Film Academy, Los Angeles, California. His fiction and non-fiction projects have officially been screened in, well over seventy international film festivals, in countries, including Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Greece, France, India, Italy, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States. 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