The Legend of Maula Jatt, the blockbuster Pakistani film starring Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi, has won two awards at the 7th Jackie Chan International Action Film Week.
Director Bilal Lashari made the announcement on Instagram with a post celebrating the team and the continued success of the 2022 film. The Jackie Chan Action Film Week, now an award show and celebration of its own, was originally part of Shanghai International Film Festival, started by Chan in 2015. The fifth edition was held in 2019. In 2021, the sixth edition celebrated the top 10 classic Chinese action films.
“Two awards, in the pouring rain, on a stage with Jackie Chan’s name on it. Still can’t quite believe this one,” he wrote.
“The Legend of Maula Jatt took home two honours at the closing ceremony of the 7th Jackie Chan International Action Film Week in Harbin, one of Asia’s biggest celebrations of action cinema. The Special Jury Award, and Best Art Direction,” he said, calling seeing his film alongside big names such as Mortal Kombat 2 and The Furious “wild”.
“An open air stage in Harbin, thousands in the crowd, and rain coming down through all of it. It had been on and off all evening, then my turn to go up, and of course that’s just when the sky really opened up. Soaked by the time I reached the mic, a stranger holding an umbrella overhead, trophy dripping, the whole arena lit up behind the rain. As a director you dream of building moments like that on set. This one just happened,” Lashari wrote in his caption.
