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Johnny Depp to star as gangster in ‘Black Mass’
LOS ANGELES: US star Johnny Depp will play notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in the film “Black Mass”, to be directed by Barry Levinson, the producers announced Saturday. The film recounts the...
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Remo D’Souza uses Aa Re Pritam Pyaare in ABCD
MUMBAI: Choreographer-director Remo D’Souza has used the chartbuster track Aa Re Pritam Pyaare from the film Rowdy Rathore, in his new film ABCD – AnyBody Can Dance. He says it will be shown in the...
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I never left this industry: Ameesha Patel
MUMBAI: Comebacks are for actors who get married, have kids and then plan to come back, says Bollywood actor Ameesha Patel, insisting that she had never left the industry and Race 2 does not signal a...
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Popular news show: BBC Urdu , Express News collaborate to air Sairbeen
KARACHI: For the first time ever BBC World Service is making a mark on Pakistan’s national television with its flagship programme, Sairbeen. The live show is going to start from February 11 on...
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Affleck wins directors award as Argo hurtles to Oscars
LOS ANGELES: Actor-turned-film-maker Ben Affleck won the top honour from his peers at the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for the movie Argo, cementing the Iran hostage drama’s frontrunner...
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Hasaan’s Vishwaroopam becomes “controversial”
MUMBAI: The controversy regarding Kamal Hasaan’s Tamil-Telugu film Vishwaroopam is coming to a peaceful end as its date of release in Tamil Nadu has finally been set — February 7. The film has faced...
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Pakistani artists plus Bollywood equals drama and politics
LAHORE: Indian cinema no longer restricts itself to Indian talent as globalisation has allowed numerous Pakistani artists to enter the main stream music industry in Bollywood. The influx of artists...
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Movie review: Argo - taking centre stage
Set around the US embassy hostage crisis in Tehran on November 4th 1979, Argo is a skillfully made and engrossing espionage film. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck (Tony Mendez), this is a...
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I was nursing this silent ambition to turn director: Arbaaz Khan
Actor-turned-producer Arbaaz Khan made his debut into films with Daraar. He produced Dabangg and made his directorial debut with Dabangg 2. Khan is confident about his latest venture that stars his...
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Big B, Farhan Akhtar come together in a musical
Director Sameer Sharma of Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana fame is all set to make a musical and megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar are in his wish list for lead roles. Currently, the film titled...
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Good Morning Karachi team goes to Sweden
GOTEBORG: The 36th Goteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in Sweden gave the team of Pakistani film Good Morning Karachi (GMK) a reason to visit their brutally cold city this time of year. Why...
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Movie review: Hitchcock against all odds
Can a movie, even a standard biopic about Alfred Hitchcock, possibly do justice to such a legendary master of the same medium? It’s hard to say for sure. But if we can leave aside overwhelming...
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Outlawed in Pakistan — Kainat Soomro’s story on film
Amid the media storm that broke after the gang rape and death of a 23-year-old Delhi girl Jyoti Pandey, two journalists have made a short film that follows the story of a teenage girl allegedly raped...
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Movie review: Les Miserables - cry me a river
Some may argue that nothing can come close to actually watching the play live. But Oscar winning director Tom Hooper’s treatment of Les Miserables offers a fresh, new perspective on the subject...
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First trailer of Ali Zafar’s Chashme Baddoor goes live
Singer-turned-actor Ali Zafar is all set for the release of his film Chashme Buddoor, which is director David Dhawan’s remake of the ’80s classic of the same name. The teaser, which was released on...
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FiLUMS workshop: ‘The key is to be creative within your resources’
LAHORE: Two emerging artists on the national music and film scene held workshops on the second day of the LUMS International Film Festival, FiLUMS on Saturday. Syed Noor Hussain, a student of...
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Glee’s Principal Figgins comes to Karachi!
KARACHI: What can you expect other than earsplitting shrieks of adoration when teenaged Glee fans meet the loveable Principal Figgins of the fictitious William McKinley High School from the popular...
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Short film about Zia regime earns recognition in India
LAHORE: Assad Zulfiqar Khan’s short film, Haal, earned the title of Best Upcoming Star Film at the Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) in India earlier this week. The London-based film-maker,...
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Now I will go for treatment: Salman Khan
MUMBAI: Bollywood star Salman Khan has said that he would undertake a long-delayed trip abroad for treatment of a painful condition, which he had put off because of his acting schedule and the...
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Low-budget Special 26 gets the vote
KARACHI: Thriller Special 26 is a well-paced, smartly-written and brilliantly-performed film with the exception of needless music — a chronic disease in most Indian films. The plot involves a set of...
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