Struggling under an onslaught of Bollywood movies on black market DVDs, the owners of Pakistan's empty cinema halls are imploring their government to lift a ban on India's wildly popular masala flicks. Movie houses that once saw audiences queue for Pakistan's home-grown 'Lollywood' productions now say they need to screen films made by their once bitter rivals in glitzy Mumbai, the former Bombay, in order to survive. Agence France Presse reports.

