50 years of Mother Teresa’s life to glisten on screen
Catholic nun and missionary Mother Teresa of Albanian descent, who devoted 17 years of her life to helping the needy, blind, aged and disabled, left millions in tears when she passed away in Kolkata...
View ArticleKBC 7th season launched with changes
MUMBAI: The popular game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati”, hosted by megastar Amitabh Bachchan, is back and this time it’s bigger and better. The jackpot prize in the “Kaun Banega Crorepati 2013″ will be...
View ArticleIshq Khuda put me under great risk: Shehzad Rafique
LAHORE: Despite being bashed by critics and overshadowed by the roaring success of Chennai Express at multiplexes, Shehzad Rafique’s Ishq Khuda managed to do decent business at single screens across...
View ArticleDid you know?: Zinda Bhaag gets delayed till September 20
Just when Main Hoon Shahid Afridi’s success had increased the anticipation of more Pakistani films, it seems that cinema enthusiasts will have to wait a bit longer for their wishes to come true. The...
View ArticleI will do comedy till the day I die: Sandra Bullock
VENICE: Sandra Bullock put in a call to the astronauts on the International Space Station for tips on how to play her latest role in space drama Gravity, but America’s Miss Congeniality says she will...
View ArticleA reticent Remo Fernandes turns to acting
NEW DELHI: Remo Fernandes has been in the film industry for over 25 years, but being an introvert has stood in his way to stardom. He was seen in ‘singing roles’ in Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha and David and...
View ArticleMadras Café: An engaging combo of fact and fiction
KARACHI: With a hard-hitting, dense and utterly different film, Madras Café director Shoojit Sircar has finally stepped into a domain that nobody else in Bollywood dared to. Madras Café is a bold,...
View ArticlePoverty and recession infuse Venice movies
VENICE: Nicolas Cage re-inhabits a low-life version of his Leaving Las Vegas alcoholic in the Southern gothic Joe, screened on Friday at the Venice Film Festival, while a German film explores the...
View ArticleBig B and Rekha reunite!
Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha haven’t been seen together for over three decades now ever since the controversies about their alleged affair abounded in the film industry. Their last movie together...
View ArticleDid you know?: Main Hoon Shahid Afridi box office stats are out!
Despite controversies, unnecessary delays and the overwhelming and continuing success of Chennai Express, Humayun Saeed’s Main Hoon Shahid Afridi has earned Rs22 million in its first week of release...
View ArticleOne Direction edges Butler, sings its way to box office win
LOS ANGELES: Concert film One Direction: This is Us, a Sony Pictures/TriStar release featuring the red-hot British boy band One Direction, won the weekend box office race with ticket sales of $17...
View ArticleMel Gibson would rather be the bad guy
NEW DELHI: Be it a cop, folk hero, journalist or a mentally challenged young man, Mel Gibson has probably done it all in his four-decade long acting career. But despite playing a myriad of roles,...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors: The 101 of television
KARACHI: The good news Pakistan can produce exceptional television. Most will look at Humsafar or the recently concluded Zindagi Gulzar Hai as an example. But there’s more to Pakistani television...
View ArticleBringing everyday heroes to film
KARACHI: New York-based investment banker and accidental entrepreneur Abbas Hashmi hopes to bring Pakistani heroes to the forefront with a project titled Heroes of Pakistan. With a film competition,...
View ArticleNew project: Meera set to star in Pashto film
PESHAWAR: Pakistani film actor Meera is to feature in an upcoming Pashto film, “Worbal” which will be shot in Murree and Islamabad. Producer of the film, Shahid Khan while talking to The Express...
View Article'We're The Millers': Above average, worthwhile adult road comedy
It’s a story of a group of losers who pose as a happy family in order to make their lives bearable. They look like a delightful family to everyone they meet, but in reality they are just the opposite...
View ArticleSatyagraha: Good intentions don’t make good movies
KARACHI: Fast forward from Anna Hazare’s real-life Jan Lokpal Andolan in 2011, and you will find Dwarka Anand (Amitabh Bachchan) replicating a similar movement, under the blanket of Jan Satyagraha on...
View ArticleKapoors to replace the Khans in Andaz Apna Apna 2?
Veteran film-maker Rajkumar Santoshi, who gave Bollywood some of the best movies such as Ghayal, Barsat and many others, is thinking of making the sequel to his hit comedy Andaz Apna Apna. Lead actors...
View ArticleJohansson alien film disappoints, Korean movie shocks at Venice
MILAN: Scarlett Johansson as a predatory alien in Scotland got a lukewarm reception and a film about mutilation and masochism that is banned in the director’s native South Korea, roused disbelieving...
View ArticleMeera boards a flight to the Pashto film industry
PESHAWAR: Actor Meera has been in the news quite a lot lately – for her failed Lollywood venture Ishq Khuda, her wrath against those who are hell-bent on defaming her and her retirement from the...
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