ایک طرف جہاں متعدد پاکستانی ستارے بولی وڈ میں اپنی قسمت آزمانے میں مصروف ہیں وہیں بولی وڈ کے معروف اداکار اوم پوری ہندوستان کے بجائے پاکستان میں اپنے ساتھی اداکار فہد مصطفیٰ کے ساتھ بہترین وقت گزار رہے ہیں۔
اوم پوری پہلی مرتبہ پاکستانی فلم ’ایکٹر ان لا‘ میں کام کرتے نظر آئیں گے اور بقیہ کاسٹ کے ساتھ فلم کی پروموشنز کے دوران انھیں دیکھ کر اندازہ لگایا جاسکتا ہے کہ بولی وڈ اداکار کو فلم کی شوٹنگ کے دوران بھی کافی مزہ آیا ہوگا۔
فلم ’ایکٹر ان لا‘ میں فہد مصطفیٰ اور مہوش حیات خان مرکزی کردار ادا کرتی نظر آئیں گی۔
واضح رہے کہ ’ایکٹر ان لا‘ کی کہانی ایک ایسے نوجوان کے گرد گھومتی ہے جو وکیل کے بجائے اداکار بننے کی خواہش رکھتا ہے تاہم اس کے والد اسے وکیل بننے پر مجبور کرتے ہیں۔
نبیل قریشی کی ہدایات میں بننے والی فلم رواں سال عید الضحیٰ پر نمائش کے لیے پیش کی جائے گی۔
Muslim-Hindu love stories are complicated. Even when you simply want to tell the story.
Just ask writer/director Hamza Bangash, whose attempts to fund his short film Rang Raaz were met with refusal after refusal in Pakistan.
"We had approached some pretty prominent people in Pakistan who had vested interests in having a story about minorities told," shares Hamza with Images.
"But they all refused, saying the subject [of an interfaith marriage] is too controversial. I was shocked. Here were people who had prospered, people who were well-connected, but still too scared to make a political statement. They said it's a threat to their life and their family's life."
However, the project is not without its supporters.
Hamza had so far self-funded the shoot of Rang Raaz, but now needed help in financing its post-production. Through his Kickstarter campaign, he's raised 3,390 CAD out of the required 4000.
"We [also] have people like Deepak Perwani who's super-proud to put his name on our project," Hamza adds. "It's a huge stamp of approval for us to have him on board as the costume designer of our film."
About Rang Raaz
In Rang Raaz, a young couple - a Hindu man and a Muslim woman - decide to elope. Soon, "their journey takes a dark twist, as the full consequences of their wedding come into focus with hidden resetments, betrayals and emotions to the surface."
"We've got a lot of negative feedback," tells Hamza. "Our Facebook page is flooded with messages like 'How dare you make this film. It's totally against our culture?' My response to them is 'Who are you to dictate what our culture is?' If Jinnah, who founded our nation, believed in cultural pluralism, then who is anyone else to say otherwise?"
The film itself is inspired by the very delayed passing of the Hindu Marriage Bill.
"I was reading the papers when I came across news of the Hindu Marriage Bill. I had no idea that this had just happened. The Hindu community has been part of Sindh for generations before partition . Their temples have existed on this land before a lot of the infrastructure that we know as Karachi today. And yet they couldn't legally get married until recently. It's ridiculous."
Hamza hopes that through independently funded films, he and other like-minded filmmakers will be able to alter the course of Pakistani cinema.
"After an amazing first year, where films like Shah, Moor and Manto came out, Pak cinema has now reverted to Bollywood-inspired knock offs," laments Hamza. "We need our films to speak honestly about the issues our society faces. They should be engaging and with a conscious! That's what we tried to do with Rang Raaz, and I think that's why the trailer for the film has resonated with so many people. That's the direction our cinema needs to be headed towards. Bollywood creates some amazing movies, but we need to figure out our own identity."
Bollywood actress Preity Zinta got married to her longtime boyfriend Gene Goodenough on 29 Feburary in a private ceremony earlier this year. The actress kept the images of her wedding away from us. But the wait is finally over. For the first time, after 6 months of their marriage the pictures are finally out.
Preity is looking gorgeous in Red lehenga which is designed by Manish Malhotra, while Gene is looking handsome in golden Sherwani.
The actress who secretly got married in Los Angeles, host a grand reception party for all the film industry friends on 13 May. The Reception was also talked about for Salman Khan and alleged girlfriend Iulia Vantur made their first public appearance together there.
Earlier, it was reported that Preity would be donating proceeds generated from their wedding pictures to charity. It is believed that they will put out their private wedding images up for auction and the proceeds generated out of these will go towards the Preity Zinta Foundation.
The former Miss World and Quantico star tells us about pictures with The Rock, real armpits, New York City street food, and more.
Priyanka Chopra will be featured in the September issue of GQ, where the Bollywood-turned-Hollywood star discusses her transition onto American screens, how to act surprised, and much, much more. Chopra also took some time to explain to GQ the stories behind some of her more popular Instagrams. How exactly does one wish Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson a happy birthday? It's harder than you think—find out below:
In Kareena Kapoor's words, it's all about "good looks, good looks... and good looks" in Bollywood now, but in the 80s and 90s more focus was on one's talent than their face. Take, for example, Kajol and her unibrow.
According to NDTV, the actor chose not to get them done because a close friend of hers, Mickey Contractor, a professional make-up artist for Bollywood, suggested she stick to the unibrow look.
"Actually Mickey was the one who convinced everybody that I should go with this unibrow," said Kajol.
Ah, so that's why she sports her signature look.
On the professional front, the actor revealed why she chose to get married to Ajay Devgan during the peak of her career.
"It was the right thing for me to do at that point of time. I had been already working for around eight and a half to nine years. So, I was ready to kind of calm down on my work front and kind of take it easier," she said.
Kajol explains that she wanted to do less work and change her lifestyle which is why she felt she wanted to settle down. "I was doing four to five films a year. I didn't want to do only that and to only live like that. That wasn't what I had set out for. So I assumed that I would get married and do one film a year. I'll be happier and be more settled."
Kajol and Ajay tied the knot in 1999; they have two children together. Since her daughter's birth in 2003, the actor has worked in a few films, namelyFanaa, U Me Aur Hum, My Name Is Khan, We Are Family and Toonpur Ka Superrhero and Dilwale.
اسلام آباد: وفاقی وزیر برائے بین الصوبائی رابطہ میاں ریاض حسین پیرزادہ نے پاکستان کرکٹ ٹیم کی انگلینڈ کے خلاف ون ڈے میں بدترین کارکردگی پر تشویش کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے کارکردگی کو ناقابل برداشت قرار دے دیا۔
وفاقی وزیر ریاض حسین پیرزادہ نے قومی ٹیم کی کارکردگی پر نوٹس لیتے ہوئے اپنے دفتر میں ایک خصوصی اجلاس کی صدارت کی جس میں وفاقی سیکریٹری بین الصوبائی رابطہ اور ڈائریکٹرجنرل پاکستان اسپورٹس بورڈ نے شرکت کی۔
ان کا کہنا تھا کہ پاکستان کو ماضی میں اس طرح کی افسوس ناک صورت حال کا سامنا کرنا نہیں پڑا اور یہ کارکردگی پوری قوم کے لیے شرمندگی کا باعث ہے۔
وفاقی وزیر کا کہنا تھا کہ 'حکومت اس ذلت آمیز صورت حال کو خاموش تماشائی کی طرح برداشت نہیں کر سکتی'۔
انگلینڈ نے پاکستان کے خلاف ایک روزہ سیریز کے تیسرے میچ میں تاریخ کا سب سے بڑا مجموعہ 444 رنز ترتیب دیا تھا اور قومی ٹیم کو 169 رنز سے بدترین شکست کا سامنا کرنا پڑا تھا۔
انھوں نے اس عزم کا اظہار کیا ہے کہ ٹیم کی خامیوں کی نشان دہی کرکے کرکٹ کی دنیا میں اپنی برتری دوبارہ حاصل کرنے کے لیے اقدامات اٹھائے جائیں گے۔
ریاض حسین پیرزادہ نے اسپورٹس بورڈ کے اہلکاروں کو ہدایات جاری کیں کہ وہ ستمبر کے تیسرے ہفتے میں صوبائی دارالحکومتوں اور اسلام آباد میں سمینار کاانتظام کرے جس میں مسائل کے فوری تدارک کے لیے کھیلوں سے متعلقہ افراد کی مدد سے سفارشات مرتب کی جائیں۔
انھوں نے یقین دلایا کہ ان کی وزارت قلیل اور طویل مدتی منصوبہ بندی کے ذریعے ملک میں کھیلوں میں بہتری لائے گی۔
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