Under these circumstances, distributors are willing to take the risk of investing in Zero Dark Thirty.
Yaseen said distributors were wary after their experiences with Tere bin Laden.
"That film was expected to do business worth 200,000 dollars in Pakistan and a lot of people lost money," he said.
Though Zero Dark Thirty will not be coming to the big screen, pirated DVDs of the film are easily available in most cities across Pakistan, including Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
The owner of a shop dealing in DVDs said there was a huge demand for the film.
"Everyone wants to watch it because the bin Laden episode is still fresh in people's minds," he said.
Others illegally downloaded the movie from the internet but some viewers complained about inaccuracies in its depiction of Pakistan.
Farrukh Khan Pitafi, a TV anchor, wrote on Twitter that he was "miffed" with the film's "conscious effort to show camels in big cities, obsession with rickshaws, burqas (and) men speaking in Arabic".
Some viewers also expressed concern about the CIA's use of torture to extract information from suspects as depicted in the movie.
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