The Train Journeys of yesteryears!!!!!!!
*Raju Jamil*

I remember my first ever rail journey from Karachi to Rawalpindi in 1958 enroute to Murree for our summer vacations with grand-mother (Dadee Amaan) my mother, brothers and sisters and our family servant Farid Khan by Tezrao in that inter-class bogey which had wooden seating for eight and sleepers (upper berth) for two each side. The bogey had fans with control knobs, adequate roof lights with switches, a sizeable toilet well...

AAH...THE CINEMA HALLS OF KARACHI (I MAY NEVER FORGET)
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*RAJU JAMIL*


I talk of 1960 the first ever time I was allowed to go to a cinema hall but only the Sunday Morning Special or Matinee or at best--1st show i.e. 6 to 9 but rarely! and never the late till 1968!

I lived in Garden Road Officers Colony when I started going to the movies alone. I mean from home. joined by my close (neighborhood) fiends like Hafeez and Puppoo or my Dadi Amaan...

ALL THE NAMES YOU ARE TO READ IN THIS SUBMISSION...COMES FROM MY MEMORYOF YESTER-YEARS AT PTV. IF I MISS OUT ANY NAME..PLEASE REVERT WITH CONVICTION.------Regards, Raju Jamil

(PTV Debut-2nd December, 1967 from Karachi Centre in Amir Imam's play "Jahan Baraff Girti Hai" with Neelofer Alim, Agha Sajjad and Mehmood Ali)

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Pakistan Television Corporation...has come a long way since it first started its transmission in Pakistan on 27 November-1964...

THIS IS NOT MY WORK--OBVIOUSLY--BUT I FIND IT WORTH A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD--TO PLACE IT ON MY BLOG--FOR THE READING PLEASURE OF MY GOOD FRIENDS ON THIS FORUM--------------Raju Jamil, Karachi
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The Softer Side of Mr. Jinnah
Darwaish

More than 61 years have passed since the death of founder of Pakistan , Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. But even today, nothing about Jinnah seems ordinary —not his legal career, politics, personal...

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HEERA AUR PATTHAR under FilmArts of Waheed Murad's Dad Nisar Murad...was perhaps the 3rd of their production..which had the newly debuted WAHEED MURAD (having done a side role as Sabiha's son in 'AULAD'-1961).

Directed by Pervez Malik, HAP became the first ever platinum jubilee (B&W) movie of Pakistan..which was wholly made in Karachi at Saeed A. Haroon's Eastern Studios and about 65% on location at some guava farms of Malir and nearby Goths..a few odd miles from Karachi Airport....

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ARMAN (1966)
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FILMARTS....'ARMAAN' was yet another blockbuster--right after HEERA AUR PATTHAR--which also did PLATINUM JUBILEE--at NAZ Cinema, Karachi.
The cast was quite an ordinary apart from Waheed Murad and Zeba, most belonged to Radio Pakistan-Karachi and Karachi Stage artiste' like;
ZAHOOR AHMED (NIAZ of KHUDA KI BASTI) as Waheed's dad, BIBBO (the famous visitor/betor at Karachi's famous horse race club), the then charming Rozina..(who...

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YE JO PTV “WARD” HAI…DESIGN ISSKA ODD HAI! by Raju Jamil….for The News (2003)

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated man, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world reality.

Many whom I met a day after the PTV 12th Award ceremony was shown live from Convention Centre-Islamabad, thought that it is high time PTV must come out of it’s shell by recognizing the fact that talent persists or (now) exists globally in Pakistan...

"ASHIANA" produced under the banner of F&Y MOVIES was released in 1966. Typical family drama involving SAAS-BAHU enemity and a joint family getting bereft--the movie was SUPER DUPER HIT. I saw it 6 times at the famous NISHAT cinema-Karachi. The movie had BEST songs, scenerios (murree) and enjoyable comedy by the henpecked husband played by LEHRI opp; Asha Posley. The cast : Kamal, Zeba, Rukhsana, Habib, Lehri, Asha Posley, Faizee, Samia Naz (playing a vamp!), Asad Jaffery and the sinsiter...

"ASHIANA" produced under the banner of F&Y MOVIES was released in 1966. Typical family drama involving SAAS-BAHU enemity and a joint family getting bereft--the movie was SUPER DUPER HIT. I saw it 6 times at the famous NISHAT cinema-Karachi. The movie had BEST songs, scenerios (murree) and enjoyable comedy by the henpecked husband played by LEHRI opp; Asha Posley. The cast : Kamal, Zeba, Rukhsana, Habib, Lehri, Asha Posley, Faizee, Samia Naz (playing a vamp!), Asad Jaffery and the sinsiter...

MUGHAL-e-AZAM ( Now a full length color movie ) By Raju Jamil (Published in IMAGES - 2005)

WHENEVER ONE SPEAKS of grandeur, extravagance and opulence in Indian movies, the name that comes foremost to one’s mind is ‘Mughal-e-Azam” which, after 44 years of its release, has been converted into a full length color film.. the progress of I.T and Science hailed !

There’s something so imposing about the film even now, that all other costume dramas we can think of simple pale...