Film
Joyland
The ground-breaking debut feature from writer-director Saim Sadiq follows a gentle and timid married man in Lahore named Haider who secretly works as a backup dancer in a Bollywood style burlesque club. Haider becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman Biba who runs the show, complicating the steadfast traditional dynamics of his household and expanding his worldview in unexpected ways.
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