Being locked down, worried and anxious about everything at present and also about what lies before...
Category - Features
Two To Tango: Noor Jehan & Shamim Ara
Noor Jehan officially turned ‘playback singer’ in Pakistan beginning with the song...
Take 5: Viewing In The Time Of Corona
Being awash with films or various web series is one way of keeping busy in these times, but one...
Director’s Note: Bamfaad
I had made a short film titled Jaan Jigar, which won for the Best Director Award at the 2018...
Take 5: Noor Jehan Across the Border
I’ve always maintained that one of the biggest losses to Indian cinema at the time of the...
Dracula In Pakistan: A Gentleman And A Friend
Pakistani cinema lost one of its unsung diamonds on the 21st of March, 2020. Personally, I lost a...
First Person: Body
The image of a naked man in public. That was the starting point of my script for my intended film...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on Celluloid
Indian filmmakers have generally shied away from making biographical films on national leaders...
Incomplete Films: Rano
In LV Prasad’s Raj Kapoor-Meena Kumari starrer Sharada (1957), lovers Raj Kapoor and Meena...
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja
Attempts being made create a new genre called ‘slow cinema’ could well be unfair to...