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The 15th Tehzeeb Festival packed the house this month — here’s why it matters KARACHI: Walk into the Zia Mohyeddin Theatre on festival night, and you’ll see it: a full house, heads swaying, phones tucked away, ears tuned in. For two evenings (Sept 13–14), the 15th Tehzeeb Festival at NAPA proved that classical music, with […]
KARACHI: Abdul Hannan, one of Pakistan’s most prominent young singers and songwriters, is set to perform live at the Aga Khan University Sports & Rehabilitation Center in Karachi on 28 September 2025. The concert is scheduled to begin at 8:30 pm and is being presented through Ticketwala, which is promoting the event and handling ticketing. […]
LOS ANGELES: Few Hollywood stars carry the weight of cultural expectation like Leonardo DiCaprio. Whenever he steps into a new project, the attention it draws is as much about the story on screen as it is about what the film might say about the moment we are living in. His latest collaboration with Paul Thomas […]
The singer lives out his fairytale dream with wife in latest Urdu-Punjabi love song Farhan Saeed and Urwa Hocane are well aware of the magic of their on-screen chemistry. The two are back to give the fans what they want in a dreamy music video for Farhan’s recent Urdu Punjabi song Andron Kha Jana, released […]
The crochet-heavy summer collection focuses on outerwear with a rock and roll edge LONDON: Burberry BRBY.L presented hippie-inspired crochet dresses, fringed jackets, and tailored suits in acid green, yellow and pink on Monday, drawing on counterculture fashions from the British music scene for its spring/summer 2026 collection. A Black Sabbath soundtrack gave a rock’n’roll edge to the […]
Farooq Ustad and Khalid Malik Haider remembered for their lasting contributions to Pashto and Urdu music In Peshawar, artists have urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to posthumously honour two recently deceased folk musicians, Farooq Ustad and Khalid Malik Haider, whose contributions to Pashto and Urdu music were remembered at a gathering this week. The Hunari […]
ICMP warns music income may drop as firms like OpenAI, Suno and Udio used unlicensed music to train models The global music industry has raised serious concerns over the practices of leading artificial intelligence companies, accusing them of large-scale copyright infringement. The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP), which represents music publishing rights worldwide, recently […]
It depicts ‘evil’ military research base Unit 731 in China that experimented on humans BEIJING: Evil Unbound, which depicts Japanese germ warfare during World War Two, set a first-day box office record among the war films released in China this year, as Beijing seeks to highlight Tokyo’s war-time actions and what it calls a lack […]
PARIS: JM Video, one of only two remaining DVD rental stores in Paris, is a focal point for film lovers and visited by actors like Brad Pitt when they are in the city, but the ever-growing competition of streaming platforms means this Paris institution is fighting for survival. Choice is not the problem: JM Video […]
Saudi authorities have recently ordered the closure of more than twenty music lounges in Riyadh and Jeddah. These venues, which became popular over the past few years, offered live performances, shisha, mixed gender spaces, and affordable entry. They symbolized the rapid social transformation taking place under the kingdom’s modernization agenda. Officials explained the closures by […]
