Ismail Production

1st Logo (June 12, 1981-April 3, 1987)
Nicknames: "Horse From Hell", "The Thunderstorm Horse", "Rotating Horse Statue With Thunderstorm", "Ramsay Films of Pakistan", "Horse Statue of Doom", "The Horse Statue"

Logo: We see a dark sky with yellow clouds and a thunderstorm. Then, on a black background, we see a strange blueish structure. (looks like a space background) turning to the right to see barely a statue of a white horse on a pedestal and two yellow circles in the top of it. It zooms out and rotates rapidly to see clearly which happened earlier, the text "ISMAIL" in the top and "PRODUCTION" in the bottom, all blue and with their first letters being red and some Urdu script in the two circles.

Variant: On Duniya, there is a shorter version in which the thunderstorm is omitted.

FX/SFX: The thunderstorm, the statue turning and the lights. All done in live-action.

Music/Sounds: A spooky sounding tune is heard, followed by rumbles.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * On Athra Puttar (where the logo was seen for the first time), the tune is replaced with a loud rumble, and two extremely loud thunderclaps at the beginning and a discordant stock piece plays throughout the logo.
 * On Duniya, same as the Athra Puttar variant, but we only hear the loud rumble and the thunderclaps.

Music/Sounds Trivia: The versions with the thunderclaps are stock, since they are from the BBC sound effect library. The same thunder is heard in the Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia and Lightning Video logos, alongside a few other Pakistani and Indian film logos. You can even hear snippets of the thunder on the 101 Dalmatian Street episodes "Walkies on the Wild Side" and "Flea-Mageddon".

Availability: Seen on Duniya, Dhi Rani, Athra Puttar and Rustam Te Khan.

Editor's Note: The darkness, rapid pace, in addition of the thunderstorm and ominous jingle (and also the rumbles) would definitely scare a lot of people. However, the Athra Puttar and Duniya variants are more tame, since both don't have the jingle, but the loud thunder and inharmonious music in the Athra Puttar variant would get to a lot of people. Luckily, the Duniya variant does lack the thunderstorm, making that variant more tame than the other variants.

2nd Logo (October 14, 1994)


Nicknames: "Horse From Hell II", "The Unique Horse", "Zooming Horse Statue With Smoke", "The Rare Ismail"

Logo: On a black background with red smoke, see a statue of a horse up close. The camera zooms our and the image (outside of the smoke) brightens. The statue is in grey, and is around a curve with yellow stars on the ends. Inside the curve is the company name, "ISMAIL" on the left and "PRODUCTION" on the right. In the middle is the entire company name in Urdu. Ismail Productions in English and Urdu. The camera zooms out and brightens the statue. Flowers are seen around the statue, with some green and blue smoke at the top of the screen.

FX/SFX: All in live-action.

Music/Sounds: The audio from the Duniya variant of the previous logo, and then a short three note trumpet fanfare.

Availability: Extremely rare. It's only known to be seen on Laila.

Editor's Note: The thunder sounds are still scary, and the up-close at the beginning may be off-putting to many. Otherwise, a very unique and rare find.