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Long live Lollywood!
Lollywood originates from my hometown of Lahore. My childhood consists of vivid memories of Royal Park – unique as a glittering place – mesmerising me each time and offering escape from reality....
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Old movies and how cool they are
Call me old-school, call me outdated, but one of my ideas of fun family entertainment is watching classic movies. My sheer fondness for these movies is both appreciated and made fun of by people my...
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Alpha male, Beta female: Which one are you?
In the animal kingdom, it’s the aggressive Alpha male of the pack that entices females in heat for procreation purposes. In other words, the rest of the males just don’t get any. Among humans, however,...
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Bollywood, give us something new!
The Indian film industry just copies ideas from wherever it can. Be it from China, Arab countries, Pakistan or the USA, Bollywood has turned in to mere replica. This is why I had to stop watching...
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Shabnam: A bright star of a bygone era
In the 60s, Shabab and Evernew studios were considered the two best film studios in Lollywood. Any director in Lahore would want to shoot his films there. Like many legends of that era, the beautiful...
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Naach: Lollywood dancing to the beat of success
I am a big fan of Pakistani movies, and I am not embarrassed in the slightest to admit to this. However, for the past few years - like a decade or so - I have not come across many quality movies in...
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Oh summer, thou art fabulous!
With the scorching heat and indefinite amounts of loadshedding hours, summer is not exactly the best of seasons here in Pakistan. However, there is always a silver lining and in spite of such gruesome...
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When even videogames target Muslims, you know you live in an age of hate
I love gaming. We gamers don’t just play games for the sake of venting our frustration on remote control buttons and enjoying the graphics of a particular game; we follow the storylines as well and the...
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Pakistan’s film industry is not dead… yet
I don’t remember watching a Pakistani film growing up. I was way too busy being smothered by Shahrukh Khan’s movies that everyone back then just had to watch — with the entire family. People would...
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Lootera: A magical ode to true love
Lootera is one Bollywood flick that seems to have drawn very strong reactions for people – they either love it or hate it – and both situations are actually understandable! As per the synopsis, the...
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Pashto films are destroying Pashtun culture
“Khandani Badmaash, Bewaqoof, Sharabi, Wehshi Badmaash, Ujrati, Charsi, Dama, Mastay Jenakai, Gandagir!” No, I am not abusing you. I am only naming a few of the famous films Pashto cinema has produced...
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My favourite movies of 2013
Having seen this world up close and personal, I decided to reject it and build my own reality – a reality that was filled with movies, funny pictures of cats and a pinch of tobacco. These have been my...
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Why are we being cut off from independent Pakistani films?
In the last few months, screenings of movies with a strong Pakistani connection has surged in the United States. It has been culturally very exciting and rewarding to watch these fantastic films and...
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Predicting the winners: And the Oscar goes to…
When we talk about the Oscars, we mean good, quality films. During the previous year, we have seen some of the best cinema ever made. Topics that had not been dared to be produced before have admirably...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past is the best X-Men movie yet!
Many people are comparing the newly released X-Men: Days of Future Past to Bryan Singer’s previous trilogy, which had hit the screens almost a decade ago. This comparison is kind of unfair, since the...
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Why Godzilla (2014) is one of the best summer blockbuster movies yet
This movie has been a long time coming. Brought to you by Legendary Pictures – the same studio that brought another monster-kaiju movie last year, Pacific Rim – Godzilla hits all the right chords for...
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Go ahead, beat up the woman, they do it in Indian movies too!
The incident, in which a female bus conductor in India was beaten up, on June 6, only proves that the country has learnt from history that it has learnt nothing from history. Even after the global hue...
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4 reasons “Edge of Tomorrow” was such a… fail
From the day that the trailer for Edge of Tomorrow was revealed, it was surrounded by a buzz. With Tom Cruise playing the lead and the amazing visual effects, I was sure we were in for a mega summer...
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Humpty Sharma ki Dulhania, another DDLJ in the making?
Young at heart and seasoned with emotions is how one would best describe the ingredients of the movie Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. There are films that cine-fans want to watch over and over again, and...
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Hercules: Out with the demigods and in with the mortals
Director Brett Ratner, who has previously directed the Rush Hour trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Horrible Bosses, brings Hercules, an action-packed movie with Greek muscles written all over it....
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