Artistic Expression in Pakistan: Does the audience matter?
![Does the audience matter in the commercial success of artistic ventures [such as tv, film, fashion, music]?](https://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/12/54a139d548c4a.jpg "Does the audience matter in the commercial success of artistic ventures [such as tv, film, fashion, music]?")
It was a good year for Pakistan's art industry: Nabeel Qureshi's Na Maloom Afraad became a box-office hit; Pakistani dramas and actors made waves in India through television and film; and Bilal Tanweer won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for The Scatter Here is too Great, amongst many other feats.
The commercial success of artistic ventures revives the age-old question about the relationship between art and audience, which leads to the all-important question:
Does the audience matter?
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Their answers will be published in Herald’s January 2015 issue.
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