GupShup Forums - Showbiz Pakistan

Whattt? Ali Zafar married n divorced?

Maham S — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:20:11 GMT

OK is this for real? I just read on net that he married this june/july....and is now divorced? i m like shocked...howcome i never read abt it or saw on tv abt his wedding n now his divorce...is this for real?

Fariha Pervaiz's new music video....

ytsobe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:45:55 GMT

i was just watching aag radio 1 and navin said that there is a new music video of fariha pervez
i saw it but i couldnt get the songs name

it starts out with rabia butt dancing
and fariha has really short hair in it.....so can someone please give me a link to this video

it is a new one right cuz i havent seen it ever?

Mohib Mirza wints Pakistans FIRST INTERNATIONAL AWARD!

ytsobe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:02:47 GMT

Mohib Mirza became the first Pakistani to win an award at the International Filmmaker Festival held in Kent, England. Mirza won the award for the Best Supporting Actor for the film 'Insha Allah', which also won the award for the best foreign language film. Directed by Khurrum Mahmood, the film was shot in Karachi, Pakistan and released this year in the United Kingdom. Actors, directors and movie buffs from around the globe attended the event where films were given special screenings.

Mohib Mirza won an award!!!

subbo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:57:25 GMT

DAWN.COM | Media Gallery | Mohib wins Pakistan's first international award

I am soooooooooooo happy!!!! my fav actor from the new lot.... along with fahad mustafa!!! he is such a talented artist!!! well deserved!!!! i hope they release it in Pakistan as well!!!!

Actress: Parveen Akbar

paijee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:37:09 GMT

Anyone have any information about this gem of a performer?

Its scandalous that you cant find anything on the net about her.

She plays simiar types of role - and never fails to deliver!

Rabia Noreen & Abid Ali

tweetybird — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:51:25 GMT

Rabia Noreen and Abid Ali were on Nadia Khan Show today. The show was interesting but when they mentioned on the show that they were married I was really shocked to hear that. I mean getting married at this age is a little too late don't u think so.

...and the award of being the biggest losers goes to NKS team

yanzala — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:59:42 GMT

...this is almost too funny. seriously.
NKS team have a facebook profile where people go and talk about their show. they had a status after Friday about their anniversary show where a lot of people criticized about how pathetic that show was.
in response to our complains they just simply remove all of us who criticize from from their group.
can you guys believe that?
i am not sure if i should get offended (because they remove me) or laugh at it.

...and yes i know i spelled losers wrong. can the mod fix it please?

Javeria vs Javeria

tweetybird — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:21:34 GMT

Who do u think is attractive. Javeria Saud or Javeria Abbassi. I think they r both pretty but Javeria abbassi is much prettier than Javeria Saud.

Javeria ki shaadi

tweetybird — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:44:33 GMT

Yesterday was another amazing and funny episode of Yeh kaisi mohabbat hai. Kal kay episode mein Haseena ki shaadi bhai jee se dikha rahay thay. I really enjoyed watching yeh kaisi mohabbat hai yesterday. In bichaari actresses ki pata nahi kitni baar shadiyaan hoti hain. So who else watched Yeh kaisi MOHABBAT hai yesterday.

Malka aur Maasi on Geo

Fatso — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:21:42 GMT

who is watching this drama?

Pakistani actor Faran Tahir Does a Guest Appearance on Grey�s Anatomy

Shazl3cious — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:33:25 GMT

http://www.koolmuzone.com/main/wp-co...aran-Tahir.jpg

The popular medical drama � Grey�s Anatomy � had a desi flavour this season with a guest appearance by Pakistani actor Faran Tahir in one of the episodes. Faran, who has acted in films including Charlie Wilson�s War, Star Trek and Iron Man, has also done guest appearances on other shows including Lost, Monk, The Practice and 24. The son of the renowned theatre actress Yasmin Tahir, Faran has been working in Hollywood for the past 15 years. Last year, he told Instep in an exclusive interview that �As an ethnic actor � especially a Pakistani actor working in Hollywood � I feel I have a responsibility to fulfill more than an average American actor would need to.�
His appearance on Grey�s Anatomy had him playing the role of a staff member at the Seattle Grace Mercy West hospital, called Isaac, who has a seemingly inoperable brain tumour, which he pleads McDreamy (aka Dr Derek Shepherd) to operate on. However Tahir�s appearance was marred by a lot of over-acting that put one off. That said, it still was good to see Tahir on such a popular show � and one hopes to see more of a recurring role for him in the future. The LA Times wrote of his cameo, �I�m glad the writers finally gave Derek something to do other than shake his head at the Chief. I loved the case. Isaac (Faran Tahir) was an incredibly intriguing patient. I do wish that we had been introduced to him before this episode, as it might�ve added to the drama, but Isaac still made an impact. The brief life story he rattles off to Derek includes a war, the death of his family, a refugee camp � this guy is fascinating, and everyone in the hospital knows him and cares about him.�
Tahir will next be seen in the film Two Mothers which releases in October 2010.

Famed PTV Producer Nusrat Thakur passes away

DramayBazz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:45:13 GMT

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

DAWN.COM | Art & Culture | TV producer Nusrat Thakur is dead

LAHORE: Celebrated TV producer and radio artiste Nusrat Thakur passed away on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 72.
He was the son of M.J. Thakur, himself a well-known radio and TV artiste.
According to his younger brother Safdar Jang, Thakur had been ill for the last one week. He was a diabetic and diabetes had led to other complications. He was admitted to Doctors� Hospital on Friday night where he died at around 1:30am.
Born in Lahore in 1937, Thakur joined Radio Pakistan�s Lahore station in �60s and served as a drama artiste for many years. He joined television in the late �60s as duty officer. Later, he was appointed assistant producer.
In the early �70s, Thakur became a producer and had a number of plays and serials to his credit. But the drama serial that shot him to popularity was Waris, written by Amjad Islam Amjad.
Among his other prominent plays and serials were Waqt, Ghulam Gardish, Piyas, tele-theatres Khwaish and Raat Rail aur Khat. He also worked as an assistant to known TV producer Yawar Hayat.
Thakur also served PTV�s Lahore station as general manager and got retirement some 10 years ago.
He has left behind his wife, a son and a daughter. He had two brothers and eight sisters.
His funeral prayers were held at Sadar (Cantonment) Jamia Masjid. Qul will be held between Zuhar and Asr at Jamia Masjid, Delhi Road, Sadar (Cantt), on Sunday.

Pakistan's film industry is in collapse!

arjay — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:32:26 GMT

We should talk more on Pakistani Movies of past and present..err...recent present!

This thread would welcome thoughts that will be cascaded to Syed Noor, Sangeeta and some TV Directors.

Meanwhile...here's some lament on the current era of PAKISTANI FILM INDUSTRY.................:(

================================================

Pakistan's film industry is in collapse

Lollywood, a once-robust movie-making machine, has fallen victim to religious-based government policies, cable TV and DVD piracy.

EMPTY HOUSE:
The Odeon Cinema has been showing the same movie for three years.

By Alex Rodriguez
November 8, 2009

Lahore, Pakistan - The Odeon Cinema's creaky, ripped red vinyl seats are mostly empty except for a couple of back rows where a dozen Pakistani men sit slouched, their eyes half-open, legs slung over the seats in front of them. Along the hall's bubble-gum pink walls, rows of fans barely move the hot, dank air. The Odeon's loudspeakers crackle like a ham radio.

The feature on this recent evening is a Pakistani film called "Majajan," a love story. The barely breathing, Lahore-based Pakistani film industry produces less than a dozen movies each year, which explains why every day, three times a day for the last three years, the only movie screened at the Odeon has been "Majajan."

Welcome to Lollywood, or what's left of it. It wasn't always this way. Back in the 1960s and '70s, Lahore buzzed with movie shoots, red-carpet premieres and box-office hits. The Pakistani film industry has always been based here, and though it didn't have the girth or dazzle of Bombay's Bollywood, "Lollywood" thrived in a country staking out an identity distinct from its Indian neighbor.

In their heyday, theaters such as the Odeon had queues of Pakistanis snaking far beyond the box-office window and down Lahore's bustling sidewalks. Moviegoers dressed in their snazziest salwar kameezes and arrived two hours before a showing to secure tickets.

Today, Pakistani cinema has all but vanished, a victim of the VCR, cable television, President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq's Islamization of Pakistani society, and finally DVD piracy. In 1985, 1,100 movie houses operated in Pakistan; today, only 120 are in business. The few directors, producers and cinema owners often rely on second jobs to make ends meet.

Reviving the industry necessitates junking what's left of Pakistani cinema and starting from scratch, says Jahanzaib Baig, a Lahore cinema owner pushing for a revival of Pakistani film. Baig has been lobbying the government to clamp down on DVD piracy, a scourge that keeps Pakistanis from leaving their living rooms to head to cinemas. "We have hit rock bottom," says Baig. "We can only go up. Whatever we had before is not only destroyed but is obsolete in terms of technology and skills. So we're setting the foundation for a new film industry in Pakistan."

Sangeeta, a Lollywood mega-star during the 1970s and one of the few survivors still directing homegrown films, says a revival of the industry can happen only if the Pakistani government lends a hand.

"We need government support," says Sangeeta, now 52. "We need new cameras, new studios. Right now, producers aren't investing because the equipment isn't good."

On the set of a television drama she's shooting, the hardships Sangeeta faces are evident. The cameras are dead ringers for clunky 1980s camcorders. There are no trailers, no craft service, no security to keep Pakistani passers-by from wandering onto the set.

It all seems light years away from her glory days, when all of Lahore fawned over the curvy, vivacious movie star with the dark-eyed appeal. She got her start in show business after coming home from school one afternoon and finding her parents chatting with a Lollywood director looking for a lead actress in his new film, "Bangle."

"When he saw me he said, 'That's my heroine!' " she recalls. She was just 13.
Sangeeta went on to star in more than 100 movies and direct 80. Nowadays, she focuses on directing for television, though last year she directed a film for a producer who wanted a movie about himself.

"Back in the 1970s, our movie industry was in full bloom," Sangeeta says, her eyes beaming behind black-framed Givenchy glasses as she remembers. "It was a great period for us. Everyone felt at home in the studio, and the work was deep in our hearts. Not like today."

The advent of cable television and VCRs drew Pakistanis away from cinemas, but it was President Zia ul-Haq's religious-based policies that sped the industry's demise. Many cinemas were shut down, the rest were heavily taxed. New laws that required producers to have college degrees thinned the ranks of movie makers.

The message Zia ul-Haq's government was sending to society was clear, Baig says: "We were being told that filmmaking was a vulgar and bad business to be in."

As Lollywood's top-shelf creative talent dropped out of the flagging industry, scripts got worse and Pakistanis stopped going to movies. Bollywood filled the void; Indian movies flooded video stores and clogged cable channels. Pakistani filmmakers who stayed in the industry found themselves hamstrung by dwindling budgets.

"In India, they spend $12 million on a movie, and we can spend maybe about $120,000," says Pakistani film producer Jamshed Zafar, who sidelines as an exporter of South Asian spices. "How can we compete?"

One of the only directors still making movies, Syed Noor, has established a film school in Lahore to help seed a new generation of filmmakers. But most directors and producers gave up long ago. Sangeeta says a few went into television; most of the rest live off the incomes of their adult children. Every once in a while, some of them meet at Sangeeta's modest two-story home in a woody Lahore neighborhood to reminisce over tea and screenings of their old movies.

The salve of nostalgia seems to work. Her eyes brighten as she leafs through a pile of movie posters and press photos from her halcyon days: Sangeeta in a Mary Astor-style pillbox hat, Sangeeta in a sari merrily dancing barefoot in the grass, Sangeeta coyly turning away from her mustached lover.
Smiling, she sighs. "I wish I could go back there."

Leaked Video!!!!!!!!a must see

magnificent — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:07:52 GMT

Hadiqa Kiani sings tribute to our National Poet Allama Iqbal

ytsobe — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:14:39 GMT

my FUTURE-WIFE has done it again! ;) lol

" Hadiqa Kiani�s latest album Aasmaan features a predominantly �Pop/Bangrha� sound, and tends to be quite cheesy, thus not satisfying her more serious listeners, but it manages to have some fantastic numbers that prove Hadiqa�s strength as an artist. One of the songs that pop out automatically is the Kalama Iqbal titled �Az Chasme Saqi�. The song is sung in Persian with an English translation, which had many thinking that the song was just going to be a song on the album and not a single. But once again Hadiqa did the unpredictable and released a song in two languages which the average Pakistanis do not understand. Regardless, music is a universal language and Hadiqa has proven that in this Persian number. The song has an Arabic vibe, which probably comes from the experience Hadiqa has had performing in the Middle East during these past few years. Another surprise is Hadiqa�s almost perfect English accent which is a big improvement from her subtle Desi accent which flowed through the English album �Rough Cut� which she released in 2007. Now to the video, it starts off with scriptures of Allama Iqbal along with a few pictures of the legendary poet and his life; these images come and go throughout the video. Then Hadiqa comes to the screen with a full band behind her, she is wearing an eastern dress in a B&W setting, almost looking like a gypsy. The song features Coke Studio flutist Baqir Abbas clad like the others in a white collared shirt with a black vest, a very classic western look from an all Pakistani band supporting Hadiqa�s husky vocals. Overall the video manages to satisfy the viewers while giving a brief look into the life of Pakistan�s national poet Allama Iqbal. Recently the band Strings presented their video titled �Titliyaan� and the video featured the legends of Pakistani music everyone from Iqbal Bano to Assad Amanat Ali, maybe artists like Hadiqa and the Strings duo can inspire our youth to learn more about our legends and also just to respect the legends of Pakistan a little more�"

source : hadiqa news blogspot