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Nayab Review: Missing the Sport

Shafiq Ul Hasan Siddiqui — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:48:04 +0000

In Pakistani cinema, sports-centric films are a rarity despite the nation’s fervent love for cricket. Unlike across the border, where movies like Awwal Number, Jersey, Azhar, M.S. Dhoni, and Iqbal have successfully intertwined sports excitement with compelling human stories, Pakistan’s offerings have been sparse in this genre. Umair Nasir Ali,

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NO MONEY BACK GUARANTEE FOR THIS SLAPSTICK MOVIE

Shafiq Ul Hasan Siddiqui — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:27:08 +0000

In a disappointing turn of events, the recent Eid releases in Pakistani cinema—’Money Back Guarantee’ (MBG), ‘Dor’, ‘Huwe Tum Ajnabi’ (HTA), and ‘Daadal’—reflect a trend where quantity over quality seems to be the prevailing strategy. It appears filmmakers are reluctant to forgo Eid as a prime release window, despite the

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Javed Sheikh – The Man With The Vision

Shafiq Ul Hasan Siddiqui — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:25:59 +0000

Pakistani Film Industry has seen many actors reaching their prime and then gradually facing the decline over the years, one actor who maintained his stature and proved his mettle time after time is Javed Sheikh. Javed Sheikh got in to the limelight from the drama serial Shama (1976) and then

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Betabiyan – Half-baked Script Spoiled the Broth

Shafiq Ul Hasan Siddiqui — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:14:01 +0000

Films, releasing under the umbrella of Pakistani cinema, are not doing much for the betterment of cinema, business, content etc. We have witnessed films with known names, celebrities, prominent directors and spellbinding storytellers miserably failing to entice audience to visit cinemas to watch their films. This is alarming for the

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Wrong No. 2 – All The Right Ingredients For A Brainless Entertainer

Shafiq Ul Hasan Siddiqui — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:12:42 +0000

Yasir Nawaz’s last venture Mehrunisa V Lub U was unanimously (apart from a few) declared as a disaster, this time the team is back with Wrong No. 2 (which isn’t a sequel) and features Sami Khan, Neelum Muneer, Javed Sheikh, Mehmood Aslam and Sana Fakhar in pivotal characters. Right from

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