2017 was quite an eventful year for Pakistani music and film industry. Several movies were released and songs made quite an impact. These 12 months were perhaps the busiest for the industry in hindsight. While the movies have started experimenting a bit more with the storyline and plot of it, the songs of the movies…
RAWALPINDI: Watching too many movies landed a teenager and his friends in real trouble when they tried to fake a kidnapping to get ransom from his parents. Airport police said they have solved a kidnapping case registered on January 8 and rounded up four friends including the kidnaped boy. DSP Civil Lines Circle Kazim Naqvi…
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered authorities to ban all foreign movies violating Islamic teachings and the laws, moral values and culture of Pakistan. In the remarks made on Friday during hearing of the online blasphemy case, the IHC judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui said all the movies and video games responsible for promoting…
KARACHI: In times when home-based network subscriptions are all the rage, you can randomly put on a film and not expect much from it. If it turns out to be great, it’ll be two-hours well spent; if not, we move on to the next. Not much harm done. There’s always more. It’s a different case,…
DUBAI: There isn’t any millennial who has grown up in India or Pakistan and doesn’t know Govinda. He first appeared on the screens in the 80s and has starred in over 150 films since then. From the age of ‘the angry young man,’ the protagonist mindset of Bollywood has changed (and evolved, thankfully) a whole…
MUMBAI/KARACHI: Just a few days ago, Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar’s latest venture PadMan – a film propagating awareness of menstrual hygiene – was reported to have been banned here in Pakistan. According to members of the censor board, films on “taboo” topics such as menstruation should not be allowed to show in the country. In…
Just a few days ago, Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar’s latest venture PadMan – a film propagating awareness of menstrual hygiene – was reported to have been banned here in Pakistan. According to members of the censor board, films on “taboo” topics such as menstruation should not be allowed to be viewed in the country. In fact, the…
ISLAMABAD : It’s a pleasant winter afternoon in Islamabad as I head out to the sets of much-anticipated film, Sherdil at an exquisitely built mansion in what can be called the suburbs of the capital. Sherdil, by definition are the aerobatics display team of the Pakistani Air Force (PAF). The feature film, however, fuses much more than mere jet flying…
The one thing I often crib about is how fame gets to actors’ heads. Fame is fickle; respect isn’t. Attaining the latter today is much harder and for me, the Raza Mir ménage deny the popular fashion of stardom. While late film-maker Raza Mir was associated with the first ever Pakistani film, Teri Yaad (1948), his son and veteran actor, Asif Raza Mir, amongst the most prominent…
MUMBAI: In Shakti Samanta’s 1971 romantic classic “Amar Prem”, the lead pair Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore never get a chance to get intimate in the way men and women get in real and reel life. No songs, no exchange of affection. And yet the on-screen pair in the movie were an epitome of…
