Khel Khel Mein (2021 film)
Khel Khel Mein () is a 2021 Pakistani coming-of-age drama film directed and written by Nabeel Qureshi and produced by Fizza Ali Meerza. It stars Bilal Abbas Khan and Sajal Aly. The story of the movie is related to the Liberation War of Bangladesh, the country which was formerly known as East Pakistan. The film was theatrically released on 19 November 2021. The film revolves around a drama club in a university taking its production based on 1971 war event to a drama festival in Dhaka. Plot. Khel Khel Mein revolves around the ever  growing myths, mystery and mistrust after the Surrender of Pakistan. The film is a projection of the existing mindset and curiosity around the subject, which is interestingly knit into a journey of students exploring the history and making history by doing not the so obvious and expected. Instead following the path of mutual respect, love and peace for all. Cast. Additionally, Ali Zafar makes a cameo appearance in the film. Release. The teaser of the film was released on 30 October 2021. The teaser received poor reviews due to the resemblance of the storyline with Bollywood's 2006 coming-of -age drama "Rang De Basanti". The offical trailer was released on 8 November 2021. The film was theatrically released nationwide on 19 November 2021 and was the first film to be released in the country after the COVID-19 Lockdown. Box office. The film collected a total of 2.5 crore worldwide in its first week of release. Production. On 26 February 2021, Sajal Aly and Bilal Abbas Khan shared on their social media handles to be aprt of the film as leading actors. Besides, Aly and Khan Sheheryar Munawar joined the cast for an extended cameo appearance. The cast also includes  veterans such as Samina Ahmed, Manzar Sehbai (who played the younger version of Munawar), Marina Khan, Javed Sheikh and Farhan Ally Agha. Qureshi revelaed about the genre of the film that it will be a historical/ drama, much different to his previous films. On 11 July 2021, Qureshi shared on his social media handle that shooting of film has been completed and it has taken 50 days to complete.