Asim Abbasi’s directorial debut Cake starring Sanam Saeed, Aamina Sheikh and Adnan Malik in lead roles has been winning the hearts of critics and fans worldwide.
It has now emerged that Cake has found a fan across the border and that too in filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who has several critically acclaimed films including Gangs of Wasseypur and Dev D to his credit.
In a Twitter post, Kashyap wrote, “Asim Abbasi’s “Cake” is such a powerful film…so happy that I am in a country and city that it was playing on screen. Went to see it because Aarti Bajaj edited it and read about it in Sight and Sound…but wow Asim Abbasi, Aamina Sheikh, Sanam Saeed, Adnan Malik…just everyone.”
Asim Abbasi’s “Cake” is such a powerful film .. so happy that I am in a country and city that it was playing on screen. Went to see it because Aarti Bajaj edited it and read about it in Sight and Sound..but wow Asim Abbasi, @aaminasheikh @SanamSaeed_FP @adnanmalik .. just every1
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) May 13, 2018
Kashyap was also wowed by the casts acting which includes Aamina Sheikh, Sanam Saeed and Adnan Malik.
Abbasi’s directorial garnered a lot of attention even before its release, especially after the world premiere held at Leicester Square in London. He also bagged the Best Director award at the UK Asian Film Festival.
Not even a week into the release, Cake was making waves already. On the first weekend, multiplexes such as Nueplex, Cinepax and Atrium Cinemas in Karachi and Cineplex Centaurus in Islamabad had sold out shows for three consecutive days. Cake opened to a weekend business of Rs30 million from Pakistan and selected international territories too.
