PAKISTAN TRUCK ART - 1 x 38 minutes
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It started in the days of the Raj as a display of wealth, today it is the symbol of a country’s passion.
Pakistani truck and bus art is famous worldwide for its beautiful painting. These trucks and buses have also been used as a medium of expression in terms of painting poetry. From some intricate paintings to romantic verses, film heroes to portraits of Allama Iqbal.
It was in the 1980’s when not a single truck or bus was seen without the name of the uncrowned legend of cricket Kafeel Bhai. Kafeel Bhai’s small native town of Ghotki became famous because of his signed and hand-painted freight trucks.
It’s a story of painting, verses of legendary Urdu poets and smartly articulated sentences which evoke humor while on long routes, bored by monotony of the road.
This documentary focuses and celebrates the adroitness of this rare calligraphic art. Another side of truck art is the director’s look into the life of a painter, long route drivers and those who painted their commercial vehicles into the most outrageous, fresco of emotionally charged poetry and humorous local inventive proverbs.
Anything could be seen on these vehicles.
1 x 38 minutes
