Mohammad Kamran Jawaid
Sachh tries hard to be a Bollywood film but remains a Pakistani one with much room for improvement
Published 29 Dec, 2019 08:22am
Insecurity, egos and an absolute reluctance to raise the bar of storytelling in movies have all but killed the film
Published 29 Dec, 2019 08:12am
Actor Bilal Ashraf has seen lows in his career that beat the stuffing out of him. But the career-defining success of
Published 22 Dec, 2019 09:26am
Sacch, which opens in cinemas this Friday, is well described as a ‘family outing’ by its producer. The film brings
Published 15 Dec, 2019 07:03am
Pakistani cinemagoers and even filmmakers themselves constantly complain about poor scripts and dearth of good content
Published 08 Dec, 2019 08:42am
Woe is us having to find streaks of hope in a film that has glib characters, a trite premise and a screenplay that
Published 08 Dec, 2019 08:29am
Talash is a near-sighted attempt to weld together two barbarities into one confounding package
Published 24 Nov, 2019 07:08am
Why is infidelity in marriage the theme du jour on television screens? Are unhappy, spiteful women with malicious intent
Published 17 Nov, 2019 08:22am
Two Pakistani films just released. In Durj the characters eat people in an uncooked story. In Kaaf Kangana the
Published 03 Nov, 2019 07:53am
Domestically produced animated films have a far better batting average than live action feature films. Why then are
Published 03 Nov, 2019 07:43am
The newly rejuvenated Pakistan Film Producers’ Association is hoping to coax the government into implementing a film
Published 27 Oct, 2019 07:03am
Kaaf Kangna is a love story above everything else, and the film’s screenwriter, producer and director Khalil-ur-Rehman
Published 20 Oct, 2019 07:24am
Daal Chawal is a ho-hum public relations message for the police but we’ve seen shoddier endeavours in the name of
Published 13 Oct, 2019 07:36am
A documentary film on Pakistan’s first Nobel laureate, Dr Abdus Salam, that took 14 years to make, would be a shoo-in
Published 06 Oct, 2019 07:49am
Every film in the Rambo franchise is governed by the need of the times. And as the latest instalment, Last Blood, shows
Published 29 Sep, 2019 07:47am
He feels he was literally raised to do something for the film industry. He’s already been a producer, composer,
Published 22 Sep, 2019 07:59am
Increasingly in Pakistan, actors are becoming producers of their own films. But unlike in Hollywood or Bollywood, this
Published 15 Sep, 2019 07:03am
Despite the mushroom growth of television channels in Pakistan, indigenous children’s programming has all but
Published 08 Sep, 2019 07:32am
While there is a lot of talk about producing web-exclusive series, there has yet to be a bona fide platform established
Published 01 Sep, 2019 08:47am
Heer Maan Ja is quickie entertainment for the masses who don’t like to expend brain cells and a step up from the team’s
Published 25 Aug, 2019 08:10am
