🏙 Towns & cities
Karachi
provincial capital of Sindh, Pakistan
🇵🇰 Pakistan · 24.8600, 67.0100
Karachi is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 4 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.
“A second delay happened in the 15-day shooting schedule on 8 January 2001, when the film's producer and financier Shah was arrested by the Mumbai Police; he was charged with receiving funding from the Karachi-based gangster Chhota Shakeel of the Mumbai underworld.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Karachi as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Devdas 2002
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
2015
“Nawazuddin Siddiqui's character Chand Nawab was inspired by a real character Chand Nawab, who was with Karachi-based Indus News in 2008.” Wikipedia
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Neerja
2016
“VCL produced a wide range of visual effects, including the creation of Karachi airport and buildings, and also helped in creating the 1986 period restoration for various locations.” Wikipedia
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Waar
2013
“Locations included Karachi (Pakistan), Rome (Italy), Istanbul (Turkey), Lahore (Pakistan), Islamabad, Swat Valley.” Wikipedia
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Karachi, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.
Other filming locations in Pakistan
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Karachi?
4 productions are recorded as filmed in Karachi, including Devdas (2002), Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) and Neerja (2016). 4 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Karachi?
Devdas (2002), covered by 48 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Karachi?
Karachi is in Pakistan, at 24.8600, 67.0100.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Bilalhassan88, CC BY-SA 3.0.