Producer Omer Paracha wants to bring Hollywood to Pakistan

Omer Paracha walks over to his garden, where I’ve been seated by the house’s security. “I hope you don’t mind,” he says, telling me that with elders in the family, they’re taking every precaution possible regarding Covid-19. Of course, I don’t mind. Omer, a young producer from Hollywood, whose debut film — Echo Boomers starring Alex Pettyfer, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Michael Shannon came out last year — seems nothing like your average showbiz producer. He doesn’t walk the walk, or talk the talk of a know-it-all bigshot who’s got it made. There’s a sense of untarnished innocence in the way he explains himself, that’s not really there in the industry. His simplicity, mind you, does not mean that there’s a lack of perspicacity. A graduate of Lynn University, Florida, where he did his Bachelors and Masters in multimedia and design, Omer learned filmmaking before venturing into production. Like his elder brother, Habib Paracha, who has produced several films in Hollywood, and whose interview Icon carried last year, Omer doesn’t want to just do films. He has a bigger plan in the works.

by: Ramish ALI