When Kahani Suno 2.0 -fame Kaifi Khalil's Coke Studio hit Kana Yaari broke onto the scene in 2022, a select few connoisseurs of Pakistani pop might have noticed how the Lyari-born Baloch singer painted the Karachi neighbourhood he was born in. Well, that could be attributed to it being a non-Hindi-Urdu song, especially belonging to a niche genre.

Three years later, after Aditya Dhar's multi-starrer Dhurandhar hit the screens, the world's (not literally) attention turned to Lyari and its gang wars in the wild west of Karachi. The three-and-a-half-hour spy thriller uses the Karachi ki maan (Mother of Karachi), Lyari, as its cinematic canvas. Its story kicks off at Afghanistan's Kandahar Airport in 1999, then lands in Lyari, and stays there to narrate the saga of the dark days. Wel

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