Fahad Mustafa and Mahira Khan in a scene from ‘Aag Lagay Basti Mein’. Photograph: screengrab/Instagram
KARACHI:
Pakistani actors Fahad Mustafa and Mahira Khan have lastly lifted the curtain on their mysterious venture ‘ALBM’, confirming it stands for ‘Aag Lagay Basti Mein’ because the crime-tinged teaser arrived on-line forward of its Eidul Fitr 2026 launch.
Shared concurrently by the celebs on Instagram, the clip carries the road: “Disaster ignites. Confusion explodes. Chaos takes over…” Javed Sheikh and Tabish Hashmi additionally star within the movie.
The teaser opens with the fable of a woodcutter whose golden-egg-laying hen can’t fulfill rising greed. The parable shortly cuts to Khan and Mustafa as cleaners whose obvious probability at straightforward cash spirals right into a harmful heist.
From automobile chases to gangsters closing in, the montage hints at jars of hidden financial savings, fractured belief and flashes of violence, together with one scene the place Khan bites an attacker’s arm, whereas Sheikh’s looming presence suggests highly effective figures watching from above.
Hashmi seems to stalk by means of a blood-soaked setting within the closing shot, underscoring that the movie, although playful, will not be merely a light-hearted caper however a narrative about greed and unintended penalties when survival turns into one thing darker.
Directed and written by Bilal Atif Khan, ‘Aag Lagay Basti Mein’ additionally marks a big-screen transfer for Huge Bang Leisure, lengthy recognized for TV dramas, with the discharge scheduled for cinemas throughout Pakistan throughout Eidul Fitr 2026.
With each leads commanding enormous followings, the revealing of the venture’s full identify has ended weeks of hypothesis across the initials ‘ALBM’, and fuelled expectations that the pair will ignite the vacation field workplace when the movie opens.
