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Channel 4 to screen first Urdu film

Channel 4 is to broadcast a stylish black and white comedy, ‘Adha Cup’, the first Urdu language original drama commission to be shown on the Channel.

The film will be shown part of the channel’s the forthcoming season of ‘Coming Up’, a scheme where emerging filmmakers have the opportunity to make an authored drama with a guaranteed network broadcast.

‘Adha Cup’ follows Ash (Rez Kempton) and Shahid (Ace Bhatti): 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. 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. But unless they can track down the elusive hero, Sajid Hussain, the show can�۪t go on��_

The film is written and directed by Sarmad Masud (Leeds International Film Festival winner, best short film in its section, for his 16min short, 6 & Out). It will air on 25 August 2009, at midnight.