My mother tells me they had to reprint her cousin’s wedding cards to include the message that television screens would be put up at the marriage hall. The last episode of the epic drama “Waris” was due to be aired that night and who in their right minds would want to miss it?
Such was the zeal and aura of a Pakistani dramas back in the 80s and 90s. “Roads would clear up and there would be absolute silence in homes from 8 to 9pm, when the dramas aired,” recalls my …

In last one month Pakistan has lost its several Big Actors and Comedians like Babu Baral, Liaquat Soldier and Mastana and latest shocking news is that legendary Actor, Iconic compere  and a great entertainer  Moin Akhtar has also died due to heart attack .  He was a comedian par excellence, but his last act left an entire nation in tears. He was 60. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and three sons.
Born in 1950, Moin Akhtar joined show business in the ’60s as a comedian. His remarkable impersonations …

Music has a greater influence than cricket, when it comes to improving Indo-Pak relations, believes Faisal Kapadia, lead vocalist of Pakistani band Strings. “In cricket one team wins and the other loses, while in the exchange of music concerts, it’s the audience that wins ultimately,” says he. Faisal alongwith Bilal, the lead guitarist, make up the band. Many a time they have performed live in India.
What’s the band’s take on the controversies of lip syncing, of late doing the rounds in India recently? “Often we are asked to do so …

Actors bring to mind a degenerate breed, who can do anything that shock you. Because everything about their lifestyle is meant to be shocking, so you kind of get blasé and immunized about it all. But meeting Adnan Siddiqui is like a collapse of all these illusions and preconceived notions about actors as hangin-loose dudes all about wine and women. I was completely thrown off-guard when Adnan took off on a completely different tangent from what actors were supposed to (in my limited knowledge) and revealed his true side to …

Indus Music (IM) will hold the first pop music awards ceremony in Pakistan at the Alhamra Arts Centre on July 24.
The channel has also signed an agreement with MTV whereby IM will broadcast old English songs in a show called ‘MTV Classics’, presented and produced in Pakistan.daily Times reported.
The IM music awards focus exclusively on the popular music scene in Pakistan. The awards target two specific areas of Pakistani music: the history of pop music in Pakistan and the new groups and singers that have performed on IM and new …

Within a rush of releasing albums from pop gigs, there is one that really banged the pop music scene of Pakistan during a short interval of time. Yes, this is Ahmed Jhanzeb, soft looking chubby guy.
Parastish, Ahmed Jehanzeb’s long awaited debut album is haunted by the success of his debut hit song ‘Aik Baar Kaho’. Curiously almost the whole album lyrically mines the same vein as ‘Aik Baar Kaho’ and musically fumbles around the same formula of a lovelorn hit.
For the lyrics of Parastish, AJ mostly stays close to home, …