Archive for the ‘Lollywood’ Category
Maula Jatt (1979)
There is no need to go into the story, a gandasa, a howling musical note, fits of staccato laughter and the dialogue are the only things you need to savour the very essence of Maula Jatt. Memorably scripted by Nasir Adib, and directed with a contagiously maddening, no-holds-barred approach by Yunus Malik, Maula Jatt was ...
Zinda Laash (1967)
In a day and age where even the mere mention of Lollywood elicits shudders of contempt, it is a relief to watch a resurrected classic Zinda Laash. Horror film buff and filmmaker Omar Khan decided to bring this desi gothic classic to life to show what Pakistani cinema was once capable of – and this ...
Kaun Bane Ga Crorepati (2002)
Synopsis Kaun Bane Ga Crorepati is based on Dabir ul Hasan’s (Shamim Ara’s husband) shamelessly plagiarized script that has two young men trying to woo a rich girl who exchanges personal status with a girlfriend to test the sincerity of people professing love and find out if they were attracted to her person or her wealth. Once ...
Khamosh Pani – Silent Waters (2003)
Khamosh Pani / Silent Waters (2003), a Pakistani film made mostly with European money, is focused on religious intolerance. Sabiha Sumar has previously made several documentaries on the plight of women in her country. Silent Waters takes place in 1979 during the regime of Zia, at the height of fundamentalism. However, the film is ...
Aina (1977)
Aina, a musical love story with a tinge of social comment, created history for having the longest combined run in Karachi—almost 250 weeks. The record for the business that it grossed at the box-office was surpassed in 1995, almost twenty-two years later, by Munda Bigra Jaey. Starring Shabnam, Nadeem, Rehan, Qavi, Bahar, Hanif and Shahzeb ...
Asiya (1960)
Clearly influenced by Satyajit Ray’s “Panther Panchali”, the director Fateh Lohani tried vainly to capture the lyrical beauty of Bengal’s countryside in sequences lingering unnecessarily. Fateh Lohani did not seem to have a clear idea about the exact moment when one episode should take over from another, making each either too long or too short. ...
Kancher Deyal (1963)
Apart from Jago Hua Savera, Zahir Raihan’s Kancher Deyal was probably the neatest film from the point of view of film making. Unusual camera angles, imaginative lighting, ‘involved’ direction and some crisp editing spoke highly of the young director’s promise as a film maker. The principal reason for its failure seems to be an over-confidence ...
Roopban (1965)
In the commercially successful film “Roopban” we find a glorification of the fantastic sacrifices of an (ideal) oriental woman. Roopban, a girl aged twelve (in old times a girl over ten used to be considered too old for marriage) burdened with a flourishing youth is told to marry a new-born prince aged 12 days which ...
Yeh Dil Aapka Hoa (2002)
The wait is finally over and more than the crew of Yeh Dil Aapka Hoa, it’s the audience who was waiting to see the film. They aren’t disappointed but aren’t smiling on their way back home either. Yes it is different, but the only difference is that now the same old wine is in ...
Pyaar Hi Pyaar Mein (2003)
Fahim Burney’s debut directorial venture Pyaar Hi Pyaar Mein was the second most anticipated release of 2003, the first being Samina Peerzada’s Shararat. Though the film successfully evoked curiosity for its sophisticated imagery and lifted scenes before its release, expectations from it weren’t sky high, since the element of originality was missing even ...
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