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Amateur performances earn applause
Ek Thi Nani was staged last weekend at the Pak-American Cultural Centre by the drama society of Froebel.
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Edward vs Edmund
Summit Entertainment’s franchise The Twilight Saga is being spoofed yet again. This time by “The Simpsons.”
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Superstar Rajinikanth!
If you haven’t heard of Rajinikanth before, you will this month when his movie Enthiran (The Robot) opens.
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Bollywood wishes good health to Big B on b'day
The Indian film fraternity wishes Amitabh Bachchan on his 68th birthday.
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Robot paves way for more south Indian hits
The success of the Rajnikanth-starrer Robot in Hindi-speaking regions has opened doors for south India filmmakers.
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Anil Kapoor joins Mission Impossible 4
“Someone up there is looking out for me,” said the happy actor while talking to reporters.
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Driving out old advertisement techniques for films
Baba Ilyas’ business was placing advertisements of films on horse carts and taking them around Lahore.
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Ajmal Kasab’s former lawyer evicted
“Bigg Boss 4” may be stopped because of the law and order situation caused by protests against Pakistani contestants.
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No use crying over spilled oil
“Bigg Boss 4” may have reached new levels of inanity — in just the first week of the show’s new season.
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Ticketing theatre
After years of staging free plays for the public, Ajoka Theatre is aiming to introduce paid performances.
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Lights, camera, runway
India Couture Week is currently under way in Mumbai and there’s a sizeable Bollywood presence there.
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Endhiran sets box office record
Indian cinema’s most expensive movie Endhiran (Robot) had a record opening weekend at the box office.
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Bigg Boss: The show goes on...
Ali Saleem changes into Begum Nawazish and interviews house mates; not happy about working without script.
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Kangana Ranaut wants to direct a film
While Ranaut’s niche seems to be playing a manic, crazed woman in Bollywood films, the actor says she wants to direct.
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Veena Malik shares her sob story on "Bigg Boss 4"
Veena Malik wiped away tears as she shared the story of her relationship with cricketer Mohammad Asif.
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Pax romana
Centurion has neither the epic proportions nor the grand pretensions of Gladiator.
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Machete: Cuts both ways
Machete was born of popular demand, as an in-joke, and retains the playfulness that this sort of genesis dictates.
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Hitting the YouTube jackpot
Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are both approaching a major milestone of the new music industry: 1 billion Youtube views.
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Humayun Saeed’s Daag to kick off next year
Humayun Saeed’s talks to us about his new film venture, Daag, which is set to begin shooting in March 2011.
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What does it take to become a producer?
The film industry in Pakistan doesn't require educational qualifications or work experience as requirements.
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Deepika wants to do more films with Ranbir
Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor ended their relationship but the actor still wants to work with her ex-beau.
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A Pakistani reunion on an Indian reality TV show
It was, by all accounts, an engaging debut for Veena Malik and Ali Saleem aka Begum Nawazish Ali on “Bigg Boss.”
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Meera proclaims herself a champion of women’s rights
Meera addresses a press conference about her upcoming play titled “Husn Ara Kaun?”
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Veena Malik, Begum Nawazish make debut
Veena Malik and Begum Nawazish set to feature on Indian reality television show “Bigg Boss”.
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The name game
Films are often named after successful Indian flics or song lyrics, but registering a title is a complicated process.
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Ali Zafar: Mumbai calling
Ali Zafar says he’s having a ‘great experience’ in Mumbai but misses home.
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India’s biggest budget film releases
Rajinikanth's latest film, Endhiran, has a budget of $35 million making it the most expensive Indian film ever made.
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I want to do a hard-core action film, Rahul Bose
The actor says an emphatic no to typical Bollywood potboilers shows an interest in offbeat movies and world cinema.
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A foreign film invasion
Lahore may have been a hub of Pakistani films but this week the city remains in grip of the foreign film fever.
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‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ can change lives
Amitabh Bachchan is all set to host the fourth season of KBC which starts airing on October 11.
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Blunder on ‘Australia’s Next Top Model’
The showpiece finale of the show ends in a toe-curling blunder when the wrong winner is announced on live television.
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Ali Zafar starts shooting for Bollywood film
The Pakistani singer and actor Ali Zafar starts shooting for his first Bollywood venture, a Yash Raj Films production.
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Akshay talks up his first foreign film
Kumar’s first dip into foreign ventures starts with his ice-hockey-themed film Break Away, an English-Punjabi film.
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Russell Peters gives hope to desi comedians
Canadian comedy king of South Asian descent Russell Peters turns 40 today.
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Feo Aladag speaks about filmmaking
Filmmaker Feo Aladag speaks to The Express Tribune about her film 'When We Leave; and the art of filmmaking.
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Slackistan heads to Abu Dhabi and Goa
Slackistan director Hammad Khan announces that his debut feature film will premiere at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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Mommy dearest
We Are Family is solidly, consistently unentertaining. The local flavour in the film adds nothing to the remake.
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Aamir hopes Dabangg shatters records
Dabangg should make 10 times more money than 3 Idiots says Aamir Khan at a party thrown by his friend Salman Khan.
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Remembering Royal Park
The number of businesses related to the film industry has been reduced to a few from hundreds at Royal Park.
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The spirit of reconstruction
Feng Xiaogang’s moving film about the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, Aftershock, premiered in Islamabad.
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The bad cop routine
Lollywood filmmakers continue to stereotype Pakistani policemen as cruel and corrupt, with only a few exceptions.
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Alice in Wonderland through Burton’s eye
Like always, Burton has stretched his imagination to the extreme to create something unique.
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Wall Street sequel set to rally at box office
Wall Street, which came out at the end of 1987, finished up with about $87 million in current dollars.
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Doing something different makes acting fun, Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra loves challenges. Doing the same thing every day makes her bored.
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Tax waiver for foreign films demanded
PEA demands CM Punjab issue a notification for the abolishment of 65 per cent entertainment tax on foreign films.
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Go Clicking!
Today, photography can be a hobby for anyone who has a camera and wants freedom of expression.
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Tyler and J Lo join ‘American Idol’
Pop star and actor Jennifer Lopez and Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler are joining “American Idol” as judges.
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Life lessons from TV shows
Emotional dramas, envy, medical dramas, relationships, missions: are life lessons learnt from TV shows?
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The film’s alright
The drama-comedy The Kids Are All Right had passed me by until I was berated by a friend for not having seen it.
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Cinemas in Quetta face extinction
At least half of the cinemas in the provincial capital have been closed down because of the security conditions.