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The story of “We are the light of the world,” is based on Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poem that he wrote as a gesture of solidarity with the women of the world who were meeting at UN forum in Mexico City in 1975. With dramatic narration and impressions of girls who have undergone skill training through [...]

From a local street urchin to the businessman in the high rise, all fervently seem to hum that heart-rending track, ‘Woh lamhey’ in every nook and corner of this dynamic city. It’s the flavour of this season, the song on every radio station, the blare of every stereo-system in the fly-by-night cars and even forms [...]

Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) hopes to strike a blow for gender equality with its new course in gender and development studies and by starting Pakistan’s first FM radio station run by women. She said the course is being taught by qualified teachers and a Canadian professor is expected to join the university soon. [...]

The students at the National College of Arts‘ (NCA) Film and TV Department have made short documentaries on noted personalities of the Walled City as their first assignment at the new department. The department, the only one of its kind in Pakistan, was established in January this year and enrolled 16 students selected from all [...]

The long wait for Pakistani movie buffs to watch Mughal-e-Azam, one of the greatest of Indian films, is finally over. The film, released in 1960 in India, went on to become an all-time classic and catapulted its director, K. Asif, into the all-time greats of Bollywood. Pakistan president General Musharraf has given his approval for [...]

After cricket diplomacy, it’s now film diplomacy that appears to be at the forefront of Indo-Pak ties. With the first Indian film — ‘Bullet, Ek Dhamaka’ — running in theatres there, two other Indian distributors are negotiating with the Pakistan government to get approval for releases. Similarly, Bullet has been shot in Bulgaria and financed [...]

The film is currently at an advanced stage of pre-production. The producers say their production staff has done extensive research on Pakistan. One of the producers says, “We know exactly what is available for our production needs in Pakistan and how much we have to bring in. Simply put, our crew needs the production infrastructure [...]

A BRITON who held television viewers spellbound as he enthusiastically sampled every aspect of life in Pakistan, from dire poverty to the gun law of wild tribal areas, was given his reward yesterday — the promise of Pakistani citizenship. In one of the more challenging reality shows, George Fulton, a burly 26-year-old journalist from Cheshire, [...]

What happens when the cultures of two countries like Pakistan and America collide? A marriage. The movie, which Zee claims is the first made by a Pakistani-American, centers on arranged marriages, a common practice in South Asia, in which parents pick the wedding partners of their children. In doing so, Zee takes a serious topic, [...]

Nargis said she wanted to make Pakistani artistes and commercial theatre popular in the West. ‘After every 15 days we will stage a new play in Toronto,’ she said. She said that she would take a delegation of Pakistani artistes to Canada. She said that there were many Pakistani film and TV artistes living in [...]