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Saturday, December 11th, 2010 by admin
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Dastan (1950)

Musical Pictures Limited’s presentation Dastan directed by Mr. A.R. Kardar from a story by Mr. Bannerji with music by Mr. Naushad, is a veritable dynamo of pulse pounding, heart throbbing drama. In comparison to the weak, feeble and semi-tottering results of cramped intelligence and doddering minds, as evident in some recent pictures Mr. Kardar’s Dastan ...

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Sunday, September 5th, 2010 by admin
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Lollywood – Here goes Veena again

You instinctively knew that as soon as Mohammad Asif’s name came up in the spot-fixing scam during the England-Pakistan Test series, Veena Malik would (re)surface with a comment or two. So there she was on Kamran Shahid’s show in great nick, saying all the bad things about the rangy fast bowler that she could think ...

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Sunday, May 30th, 2010 by admin
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Veena

Veena was a famous character actress.  She was born as Tajour Sultana on July 4, 1926 in Quetta, Balochistan (present day Pakistan). At some point in time, her family shifted to Lahore’s Chuna Mandi. She made her debut in Punjabi film made in Lahore – Gawandhi (1942) – opposite Shyam. The film was a hit ...

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 by admin
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Pakeezah (1971)

While courtesans feature in many films, mostly in minor roles, the two great films in which they are the main heroines are set in the nineteenth- century Avadhi court of Lucknow (Umrao Jaan), and in Delhi and the Punjabi princely state of Patiala in the early years of the twentieth century (Pakeezah), as these were ...

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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 by admin
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Kaagaz ke phool (1959)

This is often said to the be the film that marked Guru Dutt’s mental decline towards suicide, as its failure at the box office led to his refusal to direct another film. Many believe that he actually directed Sahib bibi our ghulam (1961) and Chaudhvin ka chand (1960), in which he starred, but that he ...

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Phool (1944)

Phool is not yet available on DVD or VCD but it is the first of the very few movies made by one of India’s great directors, K. Asif, whose Mughal-e Azam is rightly regarded as one of the best Indian films ever made. Phool is fascinating, as it mixes several ‘Islamicate’ genres, being partly a ...

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