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Website review: Incredibles 2
Omair Alavi|Published July 14, 2018 The Parr family from The Incredibles is back! They are the only ones who can save the world where superheroes are illegal, where being part of a superhero family is considered as an...
Jackpot pushes the industry back by decades
Gone are the days when toilet humor, spontaneous one-liners and lost-and-found theme used to appease the audience; with the passage of time, they have grown up while our filmmakers have chosen to stay inside their cocoon which...
Smaller in size, bigger in impact
They may be small but Ant-Man and The Wasp are as big a threat to bad guys as any other Marvel superheroes. In the sequel to Ant-Man, they share the title, the action sequences and the credits when it comes to bringing back the...
Parwaaz Hai Junoon’s trailer takes flight
Omair Alavi|Published July 8, 2018 HAMZA Ali Abbasi, the star of the film, at the trailer launch on Friday evening. KARACHI: The trailer of upcoming film Parwaaz Hai Junoon was launched in a local multiplex on Friday evening. The...
Pakistan’s film industry is immature, says Jawed Sheikh on four film releases this Eid
UPDATED 03 JUL, 2018 12:55PM In this latest interview, veteran director/actor vents his anger at distributors, producers and the government “Ours is an immature industry, otherwise, we would not have released four films on the...
The agony and ecstasy of success
BOOK REVIEW Did you know that Amitabh Bachchan is hardly late on a film set, even now in his 70s? Or that before becoming Mr. Perfectionist, Aamir Khan delivered a series of flops in the 90s? Or that Shah Rukh Khan was...
Ranbir’s best will make you fall in love with Sanjay Dutt
He may not have been an ideal son, an outstanding actor, a super husband or a caring father but as Ranbir Kapoor points out in the theatrical trailer, ‘he leads a life full of variety.’ The film Sanju glorifies that ‘variety wala...
NON-FICTION: THE MAD WORLD OF SANJU BABA
Omair Alavi|Published July 1, 2018 Kumar Gaurav, Sunil Dutt and Sanjay Dutt at the shooting of Naam which was Sanjay’s first hit film | Photos from the book Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt may have been upset over the release of...
THE ICON INTERVIEW: WHAT’S BOTHERING JAWED SHEIKH?
Omair Alavi|Published July 1, 2018 Photography: Mohammad Ali/White Star He featured prominently in the cast of two of the four Pakistani film releases on Eid — 7 Din Mohabbat In (7DMI) and Wajood — has another potential...