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Urdu | بول |
Directed by | Shoaib Mansoor |
Written by | Shoaib Mansoor |
Screenplay by | Shoaib Mansoor |
Produced by | Shoaib Mansoor |
Starring | Humaima Malik Atif Aslam Iman Ali Mahira Khan Shafqat Cheema Manzar Sehbai |
Music by | Atif Aslam Shoaib Mansoor Sajjad Ali Jafiey Ahmed Jahanzeb Hadiqa Kiyani Ali Javed |
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Distributed by | Geo Films Eros International Ltd. |
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Country | Pakistan |
Language | Urdu |
Bol (Urdu: بول, lit. 'Speak') is a 2011 Pakistani Urdu-language social drama film written, directed, and produced by Shoaib Mansoor. The film stars Humaima Malik, Atif Aslam, Mahira Khan, Iman Ali, Shafqat Cheema, Amr Kashmiri, Manzar Sehbai, and Zaib Rehman in the lead roles. The film marks the debut of singer Atif Aslam and actress Mahira Khan. It concerns a family facing financial difficulties caused by too many children and changing times, with a major plot involving the father's desire to have a son and his rejection of his existing intersex child. Bol was a critical and commercial success and became one of the highest-grossing Pakistani films of all time.
This film was part of a maternal and child health project, PAIMAN (Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns), implemented by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs (JHU.CCP), which entered into a partnership with Shoaib Mansoor's Shoman Productions in 2009. The project's objective was to advocate for women's rights by bringing the focus of the media and the elite of Pakistan to family planning and gender issues. The PAIMAN Project Communications Advisor and country representative of JHU.CCP, Fayyaz Ahmad Khan, served as the executive producer of the film.[1] The film was reviewed by the Central Board of Film Censors in Lahore, on November 8, 2010 and received its approval the next day.[2] Bol is set in Lahore and many students from the National College of Arts' (NCA) filmmaking department assisted Shoaib Mansoor on it.[3]