Films

Mera Lyari Is Actually About How Girls Survive Misogyny

Sometimes Pakistani films are slotted into one of two lanes: the raucous crowd pleaser or the grim award contender. “Mera...

How Neelofar Romanticises Male Self-Absorption

It took me a while to muster the energy to watch Neelofar, and even longer to write about it because, much like the film...

Sohail Javed Tells TV Critics to ‘Get a Real Job’

Director Sohail Javed has called out television critics, telling them to “get a real job.” In a post shared online, Javed...

Why don't you know these global Pakistani stars?

Pakistani talent travels far…just not home. Across Hollywood, Europe, and Asia, performers of Pakistani origin are...

From Iran to India: Five AI Film Stories Shaping Cinema Across Asia

Asian screens have adapted fast to AI-driven entertainment, from China’s billion-dollar short-drama machine to India’s corporate AI cinema experiments. With tight budgets and strict censorship, AI is offering opportunities to indie directors. Ash Koosha made a $2000 film for the Tribecca Film Festival. Not surprisingly, Hollywood institutions are drawing clearer

Hollywood Music

Love Language: Ali Sethi escapes expectations again

Ali Sethi’s debut solo album Love Language has arrived to rave reviews, confirming his position as one of the most daring and inventive voices in contemporary South Asian music. For a global audience that first encountered him through Pasoori, the runaway hit that became a diasporic anthem, Love Language...

Pakistani Cinema

Intezar Farmaiye: Being Pakistani is a spectator sport (short film)

Intezar Farmaiye is a funny, painfully accurate time loop of Pakistani living rooms through the years. Load shedding persists, political grumbling gets louder, but maybe self-awareness is starting to grow. What makes the short film engaging isn’t just the sharp writing and careful art direction (though...

Pakistani Cinema

Smart Rabbit Momo is Just Dull

From the Turkish broadcaster that gave Pakistan Ertugrul Ghazi fever, TRT returns to our cinemas – this time with an animated rabbit saving the world, not an Ottoman warrior. Smart Rabbit Momo: The Big Chase, a computer-animated feature produced by TRT and 9D Medya, is now showing in cinemas across...

Opinions Pakistani Cinema

Are Pakistani Films (and Audiences) Ready for AI?

Pakistan’s film industry is a click away from artificial intelligence. So how do we use it? So far, generative AI in Pakistan has been restricted to the commercial space. Brands like Zong, Olivia, Ufone, and Zero have proudly announced the use of AI-generated visuals in advertising campaigns. These experiments...

Pakistani Cinema

Deemak Review: The Real Monsters Aren’t Ghosts

Pakistani horror has always thrived in whispered stories. We share them at sleepovers, recite them at family gatherings, and pass them down as folk tales layered with warnings and fear. Deemak takes these stories and places them in a beautiful Karachi mansion, where mosaic-tiled floors and crystal chandeliers...

Pakistani Cinema

HunDan Brings Endangered Burushaski Language to Film

If you watch one film this year, let it be HunDan. Premiering this week at the Pakistan International Film Festival (PIFF) in Karachi, HunDan – An Echo of a Dirge isn’t your usual festival darling. It’s the first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, spoken by only around 50,000 people...

Opinions Pakistani Cinema

A Rom-Com Addict’s Review of Love Guru

If you love romantic comedies, you’ll spot the references in Love Guru instantly — from Hitch to Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, the film plays like a mixtape of your favorite love stories. Nadeem Baig’s Love Guru has a self-awareness that may look like cynicism but grows into a gentle exploration of love and...

Global Hollywood

Rung Breaks Ground for Pakistani American Voices

Houston, We Have a Story Houston isn’t the first place you’d expect a film festival dedicated to Pakistani American stories—but that’s exactly why Rung works. Held on April 19–20, 2025, at the MATCH theater, the Rung Film Festival broke new ground as North America’s first festival focused entirely on...

Hollywood

Must Listen: Mrs. Bibi Turns the ‘Aunty’ Trope Inside Out

While screens dominate our lives and visual content floods every feed, audio remains an intimate, raw, and wildly underexplored medium—perfect for the kind of stories that don’t need spectacle to hit hard. Enter Mrs. Bibi. Starring the powerhouse Nimra Bucha and created by award-winning writer-director...

Hollywood

Cooking Isn’t Oppression, But Gender Roles Are—The Mrs. Debate Explained

It’s that time of year again: when pundits argue over the discourse on domestic labor, gender roles, and so-called ‘toxic feminism’. Most of us are used to the backlash that comes with demanding basic rights—especially when it comes to domestic labor. Every year, posters advocating...

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