Films

Farha is a difficult but worthwhile watch

Set against the harrowing backdrop of the 1948 Nakba—the Palestinian exodus—Farha tells the poignant story of a 14-year-old...

Mindy Kaling and the Complexities of Brown Representation

In 2025, the landscape of South Asian representation in mainstream media is more visible than ever. One of the leaders of...

Kattar Karachi: Mafia, Music, and Mixed Reviews

So Kattar Karachi dropped on December 20, 2024, and it’s making all the right kinds of noise. But, is it the action-packed...

Can Deemak Elevate Pakistani Horror to Global Standards?

Horror has long struggled to find its footing in Pakistani cinema. Despite a rich tradition of ghost stories and supernatural...

We All Really Need to Talk About PECA

On January 27, 2025, amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) were approved by Senate Standing Committee on Interior. Why should this matter to you? Because these changes threaten the way we get our news. If passed, they give the government the power to control what information we

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Pakistani Cinema

Mein Hoon Shahid Afridi Review

Let’s get one thing straight: You haven’t watched anything so opulent, so magnificent like this in a long, long time on the Pakistani Movie Screen. It’s not just body beautiful, but there’s soul as well. It requires courage, prowess, patience, aptitude, knowledge,...

Pakistani Cinema

Behadd - Telefilm

When the promos for Behadd first came out, I was seriously intrigued by it. It’s been a while since a good drama has come out, but behadd looked like a different story overall, and it was just really fun to watch. The hour and a half was time well spent as far as the telefilm went. The story is...

Pakistani Cinema

Ishq Khuda Movie Review

Written by Syed Zain Raza Masjid Dhaade, Mandir Dhaade, (Tear down the Mosque, tear down the temple) Dhaade Joh Kuch Dainda… (Tear down everything in sight) Par Kisse Da Dil Naa Dhaween, (But don’t break anyone’s heart) Rub Dilaan Wich Wasda… (Because God lives there) ~ Bulleh Shah I don’t...

Pakistani Cinema

Armaan 2013-Telefilm Review

The problem with remakes is that they are never quite good enough . It’s like your mother’s cooking , she may have been the worst cook in the world but eating her food made you feel good . I deliberately avoided watching the original to see if this tele film could stand on its own , after...

Pakistani Cinema

Telefilm: Anjuman 2013 Review

The magic of cinema is making the audience empathise with the character, no matter how unique the circumstances.If you can reach this level, you have made a great movie. This was a golden rule I learned many years back and when the credits rolled up for Anjuman, I was merely surprised at how it surpassed...

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Pakistani Cinema

Devar Bhabi - Review

I was expecting this telefilm to be very filmi because it has been written, directed and produced by Syed Noor. I have never watched a Pakistani commercial movie so I had no idea what kind of an actress Saima was but I assumed she would be great since she ruled over the industry for a very long time;...

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Pakistani Cinema

Dil Mera Dhadkhan Teri - Review

Let me start by saying that I had enormous expectations from this telefilm in particular because I expected nothing short of a masterpiece from a talented writer like Muhammad Ahmed, a gifted director like Mehreen Jabbar and a stellar cast. Unfortunately I was extremely disappointed after watching the...

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Pakistani Cinema

Telefilm: Abhi To Mein Jawaan Hoon - A Review

I have been really sick for past few days and I received a call from one my best friends whose advise of getting over a fever is to make yourself feel better and smile all day. How do you do that? Well her theory goes that you watch a Bollywood movie, 3 hours, a happily ever after ending, and leave your...

Hollywood

My top 10 Hollywood Movies

Sunday ka din, matlab aram ka din. Matlab bed mein paray rahoo… TV on keroo.. channel switch keroo, get bored then turn to laptop, turn on fb. Browse the status of others. View couples of pictures then switch back to TV and do the regular routine. The same is happening to me. So all of a sudden I thought....

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Pakistani Cinema

London Paris Newyork Review

“In TERE BIN LADEN, Ali Zafar made the spectator break into guffaws and in his subsequent outing MERE BROTHER KI DULHAN, he made you grin and beam. Perceptibly, one would imagine Ali Zafar to get into the jocular and frivolous zone yet again in LONDON PARIS NEW YORK. Ali gets to depict a character...

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