6 Films & TV Shows Set In Pakistan During The 1970s
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Romeo Akbar Walter
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sOur Hero. Their Spy. — Prior to the India-Pakistan war of 1971, the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) trains an Indian banker in espionage and martial arts, and sends him to Pakistan for an undercover operation where he finds himself sinking between emotions and violence.
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1971: Beyond Borders
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sSet against the backdrop of 1971 Indo-Pak war, the movie is inspired by real incidents and the protagonists are inspired by Param Vir Chakra recipients. The movie shows what consequences of war are on the lives of soldiers on either side of the border.
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Nanga Parbat
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sDrama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
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West Is West
England 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sSame family. Different country. A lot more baggage. — Comedy sequel to "East Is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
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The Kite Runner
🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThere is a way to be good again. — After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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Ghazi Shaheed
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sThe film covers a story of mysterious loss of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. She has participated in second and third Indo-Pakistani wars (1965 and 1971) and has been sunk in December 1971 nearby Indian coast.
