As the dispute between Shahid Rafiq and Reema remains unsettled, Rafiq is planning to move matters to trial despite Film Distributors Association’s effort to resolve the issue amicably.

Legal advisor for Shahid Rafiq, Amjad Pervaiz told The Express Tribune that they were considering ‘several options’ including filing a civil or a criminal case against the actor. However, Film Distributors Association’s Chairman, Ijaz Kamran said that Rafiq didn’t show enough evidence to prove his claim of sharing investment in Reema’s next directorial project. “We decided to merit in favour of Reema. If Rafiq wants to move the court this is his legal right, ” he said.

Shahid Rafiq, a businessman, had filed an application with Film Distributors Association alleging Reema borrowed Rs17.5 million from him in 2008 and promised to return the money on the release of her film. The film’s name is not mentioned in the agreement which shows the signature of Reema and Rafiq along with two other witnesses.

Celebrated film actress-turned-director Shamim Ara is hospitalised after suffering brain haemorrhage on Tuesday.

She had got settled in UK and was on a visit to Lahore where she was staying at singer Ghulam Ali’s Defense residence.

Victim was a movie announced earlier this year, to be produced and co-produced by Wajahat Abbas Kazmi, Umar Wahidi and Ehtisham Siddiqui and directed by Aamir Zafar. Humayun Saeed and Meera were casted in film for the lead roles and story was based on post 9/11 situation and atmosphere of the world.

With the announcement of the movie, an official fan page was created on famous social networking site “Facebook”, to keep the fans updated with all the latest happenings and developments of the movie, but it now seems like the authorities have turned down the page as it is not appearing in any of the Facebook search results.

The Ministry of Culture’s recent effort to force cinema-goers to watch Pakistani films was bound to fail. Directives were issued to cinemas to put up Pakistani films only for the weeks preceding and following Eidul Fitr, despite the objection of cinema managements.

However, the ministry conceded recently to a Senate standing committee on culture that the four Punjabi films screened in major cities had seen an “embarrassing attendance”. Obviously, audiences

This would be the biggest setback for the fans of Lollywood and Shoaib Mansoor’s films, that his second directorial movie “Bol”, which was suppose to be released at the end of November 2010, is now out of the race and not going to be released at least in year 2010.

We previously saw Shaan doing ad campaigns for giant International companies in Pakistab such as Mobilink, Pampers and Lux, but this new ad of Shaan, in which he has shown his acting diversity very well and has convinced the audience to praise his talent, Acting and to accept him as the ‘Biggest Star” of Pakistan Film Industry.

We have also seen the advertisements of other big stars of the entertainment world such as Reema (Warid & Lux), Ali Zafar (Jazz & Telenor), Fawad Khan (Clear Shampoo and Sprite) and many more but no one was as successful as Shaan, surely because of his immense acting talent, which was never utilized

Devdas which was completed almost 3 years back, is now in doldrums and can be delayed further.

Devdas which is made with estimated budget of almost 2 crore Rupees, now needs almost 75 lac Rupees more to be released, which the producer according to reports can’t afford currently.

Shaan Shahid (Actor/Director), almost 2 years back announced a movie called ‘Cup’ which was supposed to be released last year or maybe this year, is not even started yet.

Shaan himself is directing and producing the movie and he also signed famous TV actress/Model “Juggan Kazim” as his co-star for the film.

But the news is, that the movie which is on the release list from 2 years has not even been started and actor/director Shaan is still busy in its pre – production work.