• Director(s)

    Saim Sadiq

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    127m

  • Cast

    Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan

Film

Joyland

very strong language, strong sex, discrimination, suicide

JOYLAND is an Urdu and Punjabi language drama in which a husband struggling in the confines of his extended family becomes enamoured of a transsexual dancer. …

JOYLAND is an Urdu and Punjabi language drama in which a husband struggling in the confines of his extended family becomes enamoured of a transsexual dancer.

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language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') and more frequent uses of strong language ('f**k', ‘motherf**ker’, 'behenchod'), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘piss’, ‘shit’, ‘dick’, ‘son of a bitch’ and ‘hell’.
sex
A man masturbates inside his pants as he engages in phone sex, and another man does the same in a different context as his wife watches him secretly and becomes aroused, rubbing herself against a shelf. There are also moderate verbal sex references.
discrimination
There is discriminatory behaviour and language centred on transsexuality and male homosexuality, including the use of terms such as ‘faggot’ and ‘tranny’, and crass comments about whether a transsexual woman still has male genitalia. The transsexual character, whose gender reorientation is not complete, objects when a man implores her to have gay sex with him because she regards herself as a woman. There is also culturally sexist behaviour demonstrating attitudes towards women in a patriarchal society. The various forms of discrimination are not endorsed by the work as a whole.
suicide and self-harm
A character takes their own life by drinking an unidentified substance, and a second suicide is implied as another character walks out into the sea.
additional issues
There is moderate threat and violence. There are moderate bloody images, including in a scene where a goat is killed in undetailed fashion during the course of food preparation. There is emotional upset in a funeral scene.

  • Director(s)

    Saim Sadiq

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    127m

  • Cast

    Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan

mild sex references, suicide references, mental health references
Classified Date:
26/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Soho Distribution Ltd
sex
There are mild sex references including to "having sex" and to intimacy co-ordinators on film sets. However, these are brief and undetailed.
suicide and self-harm
The interview contains brief undetailed verbal suicide references.
theme
There are brief undetailed references to mental health and depression.
very strong language, strong sex, discrimination, suicide
Classified Date:
09/01/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Soho Distribution Ltd
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') and more frequent uses of strong language ('f**k', ‘motherf**ker’, 'behenchod'), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘piss’, ‘shit’, ‘dick’, ‘son of a bitch’ and ‘hell’.
sex
A man masturbates inside his pants as he engages in phone sex, and another man does the same in a different context as his wife watches him secretly and becomes aroused, rubbing herself against a shelf. There are also moderate verbal sex references.
discrimination
There is discriminatory behaviour and language centred on transsexuality and male homosexuality, including the use of terms such as ‘faggot’ and ‘tranny’, and crass comments about whether a transsexual woman still has male genitalia. The transsexual character, whose gender reorientation is not complete, objects when a man implores her to have gay sex with him because she regards herself as a woman. There is also culturally sexist behaviour demonstrating attitudes towards women in a patriarchal society. The various forms of discrimination are not endorsed by the work as a whole.
suicide and self-harm
A character takes their own life by drinking an unidentified substance, and a second suicide is implied as another character walks out into the sea.
additional issues
There is moderate threat and violence. There are moderate bloody images, including in a scene where a goat is killed in undetailed fashion during the course of food preparation. There is emotional upset in a funeral scene.
very strong language, strong sex, discrimination, suicide
Classified Date:
23/06/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Studio Soho Distribution Ltd
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') and more frequent uses of strong language ('f**k', ‘motherf**ker’, 'behenchod'), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘piss’, ‘shit’, ‘dick’, ‘son of a bitch’ and ‘hell’.
sex
A man masturbates inside his pants as he engages in phone sex, and another man does the same in a different context as his wife watches him secretly and becomes aroused, rubbing herself against a shelf. There are also moderate verbal sex references.
discrimination
There is discriminatory behaviour and language centred on transsexuality and male homosexuality, including the use of terms such as ‘faggot’ and ‘tranny’, and crass comments about whether a transsexual woman still has male genitalia. The transsexual character, whose gender reorientation is not complete, objects when a man implores her to have gay sex with him because she regards herself as a woman. There is also culturally sexist behaviour demonstrating attitudes towards women in a patriarchal society. The various forms of discrimination are not endorsed by the work as a whole.
suicide and self-harm
A character takes their own life by drinking an unidentified substance, and a second suicide is implied as another character walks out into the sea.
additional issues
There is moderate threat and violence. There are moderate bloody images, including in a scene where a goat is killed in undetailed fashion during the course of food preparation. There is emotional upset in a funeral scene.
Classified Date:
09/01/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Soho Distribution Ltd
Classified Date:
07/11/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Soho Distribution Ltd
Classified Date:
26/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Soho Distribution Ltd

  • Classified date

    23/06/2023

  • Language

    Urdu