He made comedy look and sound like serious business. He was one of those rare actors who didn`t just learn and understand their lines, but could read what was written between the lines.
Many knew Moin Akhtar, who died of cardiac arrest on Friday, as an impersonator par excellence, as a mimic who could copy any dialect spoken in the subcontinent with effortless ease.
Today is the 77th birthday of versatile playback singer Ahmed Rushdi (April 24, 1934 – April 11, 1983) who was an important contributor to the Golden Age of Pakistani film music.
He is acclaimed as one of the greatest singers ever lived in South Asia and was a natural baritone, yet could sing high tenor notes with ease. Born in Hyderabad Deccan (India), he migrated to Pakistan and became a leading singer in the Pakistan film industry.
He is considered to be one of the most versatile vocalists of the subcontinent and was capable of singing variety of songs. He is
It seems like Pakistani film director Syed Faisal Bukhari has realised the fact that local film fans are now ready to go and watch films in cinemas, but the only condition is that the film should be of quality and maybe that’s the reason why he not only announced two of the quality films but in fact both of them are very much complete.
One of these films is named as Saltanat, of which we some months back also posted a detailed overview, today we have got some more updates related to it.
Maybe not latest but still very much unknown news related to the film is that Indian actress Shweta Tiwari of drama serial Kasauti Zindagi Ki and Indian reality show Big Boss 4 fame will also be
Award-winning South Asian documentaries were screened on the last day of Vasaakh Film Festival at the Forman Christian College (FCC) that concluded on Wednesday with a cultural evening.
The cultural evening commenced with activities of drum beating, traditional gidda and bhangra. Guests were also treated to buggie rides and were welcomed by students clad in shalwar kurta, laacha, saris and other traditional dresses.
You would have seen Noor Bukhari with Shaan in some of the decent movies lollywood has ever produced, such as Mujhe Chand Chahiye, Zill-e-Shah or even Moosa Khan, but now both will be again on screen together but most probably for only 30 seconds to a minute commercial.
THE fourth annual Vasaakh Film and Documentary Festival began at the FC College University here on Monday.
As many as 23 teams from different universities of the country and abroad have sent their documentaries for their screening at the festival.
On the opening day of the three-day festival, four of South Asia s best documentaries were screened followed by a panel discussion highlighting the importance of documentary making and the techniques involved.
We some days back reported about director Bilal Lashari’s upcoming action packed thriller feature film Waar starring Shaan and Shamoon Abbasi, and gave you the information related to its distribution rights which are given to American entertainment company Warner Bros.
Waar is actually a project of ISPR (Inter Service Public Relations) which is an Army organisation that deals with coordinating military information with the civil society and media, and has made a collaboration with Pakistani based entertainment company named “Mindworks Media” for this project, where as it is also heard that Hollywood film producer Hunt Lowry is also a part of the production gang of the film.
You might or might not have heard that Humayun-Meera based upcoming Pakistani film Victim is now closed. Yes! It’s the same film that was opened with a grand launching party in PC Lahore which was attended by many of the famous faces of the industry and most importantly the project was launched with a great hope of its makers to give Pakistanis a real quality entertainment, but unfortunately got closed due to some reasons.
But along with this upsetting update, we have got good news for the fans too; the production company of Victim named “Blue Venice Pictures” has now announced a new film which will hit the cinemas of the country very soon.
To know more about the actual facts, the team of Galaxy Lollywood contacted the producer of the film Mr. Wajaht Abbas Kazmi and recorded his opinion regarding both of these news in a great detail. Let’s check how he replied to the questions.
Gol Chakkar, the sequel to Aisha Linnea Akhtar and Shahbaz Hamid Shigri’s short film, Sole Search promises to be entertaining if nothing else. “Though my main goal was to make a movie that everyone can watch and be entertained by, I wouldn’t say its a film for the sake of film,” says Shahbaz, “(the audience) want to see more than just suffering, poverty, and terrorism in movies. We get to see all that on the news every day. I want to give them their entertainment.”
Shahbaz and Aisha had worked together in Slackistan after which Aisha helped Shahbaz with his thesis for New York Film Academy where he studied Filmmaking. Since then they have done a couple of short films, a music video for The Kominas, a public service announcement and Gol Chakkar. The two are setting
Love of Mein Gum is part of those upcoming films which failed to get their cinema release on time, director of the film Reema Khan, clearing her position in this regard said, “My film got delayed due to the wedding of my youngest sister, and as it has been over now, I will soon release the film.”
