Topic > The Miscreants of Taliwood - 1941

While filming on location, the actors and crew are threatened by the Taliban to stop filming or they will be shot. The director decides to stop production rather than risk the lives of everyone involved. Gittoes decides that the cost of financing a Taliwood film, $4,000 for one film and $7,000 for two, while a large capital investment for the locals, is an amount that as a Westerner can easily find, and so it becomes a financier. for two films. As a financier, he has power over the film, cast and crew in a film industry that sees fewer and fewer productions. Gittoes can decide the plot, the screenplay and, above all, the locations of the film, which he uses to push into the tribal areas on the fringes of the northwestern frontier provinces near Afghanistan. The locations he admits are the most dangerous not only for himself, but also for the film crew, who later refuse to film in the tribal areas but are eventually persuaded to do so by Gittoes. Since this is done by voiceover, the viewer cannot tell how much was real feeling and how much excitement was added to create the aura of risk and danger. One of the participants in the film, an actress called No-No, is aware of Gittoes' power and sees him as a