AMTUL SHAHIDA PRESENTS
BAITHAK
Three generations of a Lahore household share one courtyard, one secret, and one last summer before the house is sold.
SECOND DRAFT
FOR THE ROOM
FOR THE ROOM
FADE IN:
Every great story has one author
‸ more than one author.
one voice,
many hands —
many hands —
Amtul Shahida is Pakistan's first collaborative scriptwriting company. We bring writers together in one room to craft dramas and films that stay with audiences long after the screen goes dark.
امتل شاہدہ
1 INT. A MOTHER'S KITCHEN — NIGHT1
Named after two mothers. Built for every storyteller.
Amtul Shahida carries the names of our founders' mothers: the first storytellers Adeel Afzal and Saad Azhar ever knew. For decades, Pakistani scripts have been written in solitude. One writer, one desk, one deadline. We asked a simple question: what happens when you put the best storytellers in the same room? Amtul Shahida is the answer. A company where scripts are debated, tested, and sharpened by many minds before a single scene reaches the screen.
THE STORY BEHIND THE NAME →2 INT. THE WRITERS' ROOM — DAY2
The room does what no single writer can.
Every project at Amtul Shahida moves through our writers' room. Ideas are pitched, characters are challenged, plot holes are found before producers ever see them. The result is a script with the voice of one writer and the rigor of many. Our process is our promise: nothing leaves the room until the room believes in it.
SEE THE FIVE STAGES →3 INT. A LIVING ROOM, TV ON — PRIME TIME3
Stories in motion.
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A widowed schoolteacher answers the knock she has spent twenty years dreading.
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SHIMAL
Two estranged brothers drive their father home to the mountains, one argument at a time.
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