Film
The Prince of Nothingwood
- Director
- Sonia Kronlund
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 86 mins
We’ve had Bollywood, Nollywood and even Tollywood and Kollywood (look ’em up). Now here’s Nothingwood – the Afghan film industry.
You didn’t know there was one? Well, he’s just one bloke, actually: the portly, likeable, illiterate yet extraordinarily productive Salim Shaheen, who’s been described as “the Ed Wood of Aghanistan” and churns out dozens of Bollywood-style crowd-pleasers with song’n’dance routines that screen in Kabul’s four remaining cinemas. Sonia Kronlund‘s eye-opening documentary reveals how he’s become something of a superstar in a country where just about everyone craves a distraction from war.
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