Pakistan banned its official Oscar 2023 entry ‘Joyland’

Pakistan has banned Saim Sadiq’s critically-acclaimed film Joyland, saying that it contains “highly objectionable material”, Associated Press reported. Joyland is a fictional story set in Lahore about a middle-class family in which a wheelchair-bound yet severe patriarch rules over his two sons and daughters-in-law.

Nov 15, 2022, 23:14 PM IST