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Pakistani filmmakers are adorning international screens. Director Shehrezad Maher’s recent film The Curfew took stage at Venice Biennale on 4 September. The film stars Sathya Sridharan, Balinder Johal, Sara Haider, Rajesh Bose, Chris Thorn and Salwa Khan. It is produced by Lindsay Blair Goeldner and Meetra Javed. Its cinematography has been done by Dustin Lane […]
The music scene in Pakistan is on the rise. Events and concerts are popping up more frequently across cities in the country. However, people in this space are concerned with the entitlement of crowds who refuse to pay for tickets or find loopholes in attending these events without actually contributing to the culture.This has been […]
Director François Ozon thinks the French classic still resonates with present day VENICE: Adapting a book for the screen is always “a betrayal”, French director François Ozon says, but in bringing Albert Camus’ The Stranger to the Venice Film Festival he hopes to generate fresh debate around a French classic. Shot in black and white, the film follows Meursault, […]
What if the Professor and his crew walked the streets of Karachi or Lahore? Fans of the Spanish hit TV show Money Heist have long wondered how the show’s adrenaline-fueled drama would unfold with a local cast. Would they be robbing the National Bank of Pakistan and name themselves as Sialkot, Hyderabad and Multan? The Life & […]
Singer Afusic is back with another single and it features Hasan Raheem. Afusic’s lyrics contain themes of romance and his vocals have a touch of vibrato. The middle of Hasan’s verse in the second half of the song has some triplet flows, offering a brief stylistic change that is more akin to rap than r&b. […]
Asim Azhar might only be twenty eight years old but he has proved himself in the music industry. The singer posted a childhood picture of himself on Sunday and asked his fans, “Can u imagine this boy will be completing 12 years in the industry tomorrow?” in the caption. The post also featured snippets from […]
How many times have you seen a fun idea on Instagram reels and wished you could recreate it in your own city? Three sisters did just that this weekend when they brought the Cake Picnic — an event born in the parks of San Francisco — to Karachi. The idea is for everyone to bring a […]
Mawra Hocane is all about female empowerment. The actor recently talked about the importance of young girls having financial autonomy in an Instagram video. “I was taught at a very young age that for girls, financial independence is very important,” she said. “You don’t understand that in your childhood,” she said while she reflected on […]
Veteran US Director Jim Jarmusch said on Sunday he was concerned that one of the distributors of his latest film had taken money from a company with ties to the Israeli military. However, Jarmusch, an independent filmmaker who made movies such as Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man and Broken Flowers, said he considered all corporate cash […]
VENICE: Jude Law said on Sunday he did not fear reprisals for playing Russian President Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin, a new film premiering at the Venice Film Festival that offers a chilling, fictionalised look at Putin’s rise to power. The Wizard of the Kremlin, directed by France’s Olivier Assayas and also […]
