Final Decision!

   We've taken our decision to make a documentary on "Palmistry in Pakistan". We want to make a documentary as we wanted to do something informative, and something that would grasp the viewer's attention. Secondly, we have the sources that we would need (e.g, palmists, doctors, psychologists etc). We wouldn't have to get in a mess of finding actors, writing a story etc. Documentary is much more logical and serious. Thirdly, i have a past experience with making a documentary so we thought that it was best to go with it.

   While deciding the topic, what we had in our minds is that we wanted to do something that has never been done before. We wanted to create something that is different and local at the same time. We wanted our topic to be related to Pakistan somehow. We wanted it to be local so that we could shoot and so that we could make sure that we can avail the resources that would be needed. Palmistry is something very common in Pakistan, especially among the people of a lower class. Growing poverty makes them very uncertain of their fortune, so they want to know what will happen in their future. But they cant afford to go to the palmists who charge very high so they end up showing their palms to local palmists who are not even educated enough. In our documentary we want to target these fraud people who are making fools out of the general public. They are playing with people's life just for some money. Secondly, we want to show those doctors and psychologists who do not believe in palmistry at all. They think that the concept of palmistry in just a myth. Opposite to these people, we'll show those high class palmists who can prove that palmistry is true. We plan to leave this contradict open ended and let people decide what is right and what is wrong.

Posted by Ifrah Khan