{"id":8726,"date":"2009-08-20T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/20\/channel-4-to-screen-urdu-film\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:42:35","slug":"channel-4-to-screen-urdu-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/20\/channel-4-to-screen-urdu-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 to screen Urdu film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>25-minute drama Adha Cup is first for broadcaster<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"232\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/AdhaCup_232x180.jpg\"\/>CHANNEL 4 will screen its first Urdu film next week.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The black and white comedy, called Adha Cup, is written and directed by Nottingham filmmakerSarmad Masud \u2013 a Leeds International Film Festival winner. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The film is part of Channel 4\u2019s \u2018Coming Up\u2019 season which offers emerging filmmakers the opportunity to make an authored drama with a guaranteed network broadcast. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><em>Adha Cup <\/em>follows Ash, played by Rez Kempton, and Shahid, played by Ace Bhatti, who are two lazy and bored social workers who reluctantly agree to reunite the cast of a legendary amateur Bollywood musical, Pappa Kehte Hain to be restaged at the Pakistan Centre where they work. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>In their search for the old cast members, they encounter a singing barber, a villainous butcher and an over-acting taxi driver, and along the way they reconnect with their enthusiasm for life, love and family.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe film will air on 25 August at midnight.&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25-minute drama Adha Cup is first for broadcaster CHANNEL 4 will screen its first Urdu film next week. &#13; The black and white comedy, called Adha Cup, is written and directed by Nottingham filmmakerSarmad Masud \u2013 a Leeds International Film Festival winner. &#13; The film is part of Channel 4\u2019s \u2018Coming Up\u2019 season which offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}