Tamanna (2014 film)

Tamanna
Main cast on poster: Salman Shahid (top), Mehreen Raheel (below left), Omair Rana (below film title)
Theatrical Poster
Directed bySteven Moore
Written bySteven Moore
Based onSleuth
by Anthony Shaffer
Produced bySarah Tareen and Syed Mujtaba Ali Kazmi
StarringMehreen Raheel
Omair Rana
Salman Shahid
Faryal Gohar
Music bySahir Ali Bagga
Arthur Rathbone Pullen
Production
company
Concordia Productions
Distributed bySummit Entertainment
ARY Films[1]
Release date
  • 13 June 2014 (2014-06-13) (Pakistan)[2]
Running time
82 minutes
CountriesPakistan
United Kingdom
LanguageUrdu
Box officeRs. 0.55 crore (US$19,000)

Tamanna (Urdu: تمنا; transl. Desire) is 2014 British-Pakistani film distributed by Royal Palm Group t/a Summit Entertainment (Pak) and Super Cinema and ARY Films and produced by Concordia Productions. A drama in the neo-noir genre[3] the film is directed by a British director Steven Moore and produced by Pakistani producer Sarah Tareen. The film stars Omair Rana, Salman Shahid, Mehreen Raheel and Faryal Gohar.[4]

Prior to release the film won an award at the London Asian Film Festival[5] for the first released song by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Other songs included in the film are sung by Ali Azmat and Amanat Ali. The original score for the film was written by Arthur Rathbone Pullen son of Booker Prize nominee and best selling English author Julian Rathbone.

  1. ^ "Another Pakistani production 'Tamanna' all set to release on June 13". ARY News. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference release was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Abro, Soonha. "Tamanna: Pakistan's first noir film". DAWN. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  4. ^ Khan, Sher. "For Mehreen Raheel, it's Pakistan first". Retrieved 24 December 2012.
  5. ^ Khan, Sher. "London Asian Film Festival: A big leap for Tamanna". Tribune. Retrieved 11 March 2012.