Tag: Cinema

“What might it be like to live without cinema?” Pakistan has had a complex relationship with cinema and by beginning ...

The government of Punjab has stopped a new film by Abu Aleeha dead in its tracks, despite prior clearance from ...

India’s versatile Bollywood industry has not only entertained people but has also worked as a powerful medium to broadcast social ...

The global filmmaking landscape is fast evolving. Pakistan needs to overcome its self-defeatist paranoia and embrace new cinematic realities

Instead of coproducing films with Turkey, the government should support Pakistan’s new age filmmakers

An actor is one who leads viewers to believe that he is true to a character etched by an author. ...

Dilip Kumar has been fantasy’s gift to reality. An incredibly handsome individual, he had the daunting task of playing ordinary ...

Parvez Mahmood on the life and work of filmmaker and music composer Khwaja Khurshid Anwar

Mahim Maher on the subversion of patriarchy in Begum Jaan

Ishtiaq Ahmed on the ties that connect Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor to a small town in Pakistani Punjab

Maham Sajid talks to Atiya Zaidi, who wrote the script for Chalay Thay Saath, about the Pakistani film industry

Could Bollywood finally be rising above the moralistic, victim-blaming narrative around rape in South Asia? Reema Omer reviews Pink

Ishtiaq Ahmed explores the magical collaboration between music director Madan Mohan and song writer Raja Mehdi Ali Khan

Ishtiaq Ahmed examines the work of two prominent Punjabis in Bollywood, one from Chakwal and the other from Jhelum

Ishtiaq Ahmed examines the work of two of Punjab's most accomplished sons who graced the silver screen

Ishtiaq Ahmed on the role played in the Indian film industry by three directors produced by Lahore

Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed continues his examination of the historical factors which shaped Punjab's significant role in the music of South ...

Ishtiaq Ahmed chronicles the process by which artists and professionals of Punjabi birth established themselves in the Indian film industry

Ishtiaq Ahmed continues his discussion of the historical and cultural context in which  Punjabis participated in the film industry

In the first part of this series, Ishtiaq Ahmed explores themes in Punjab's history which shaped its music, popular consciousness ...

Does it, though? wonders Aneela Z. Babar, in a chin-wag with the makers of Masaan about the city that never ...