‘Filmmaking for Social Change, 2010′ will provide 30 young filmmakers from Karachi and Lahore the opportunity to produce ten films that will be shown at the London International Documentary Film Festival (LIDF) in May this year.
The project will provide young Pakistani filmmakers with access to an international platform to showcase the voices and stories of ordinary Pakistanis and raise awareness in Pakistan and the UK.
According to a press release issued by the British High Commission on Thursday, the festival will provide a platform to highlight the real issues of people …

Sara Taseer Shoaib is bringing her finest collection of diamonds to Karachi on 11 August, 2009. The showing will have all her signature everyday pieces as well a full range of her sets which are limited editions for the upcoming wedding season. The jewellery is designed by Sara and is manufactured in Hong Kong and Singapore where she resides. Most pieces are limited. The event requires you to have an invitation. You can request one with an address on face book page.
Sara Taseer Shoaib is a trained gemologist qualified from …

Are you looking for some attractive evening handbags? You surely need to contact with Ali Fateh, leading evening bag designer in Pakistan Fashion Industry. Ali Fateh evening bags are Amazing! Gorgeous! Trendy! Each of his pieces is one of its kind – made of exotic skins and adorned with precious stones, Swarovski crystals and plumage.
His bags are regularly stocked in fashion stores in USA, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, London etc. While designing bags, he visualizes them as pieces of jewelry, to which clothes form the backdrop. Ali’s inspiration comes from …

Whether one accepts it or not, in today’s Bollywood child actors are as important as established heroes. Anyone can understand this untold truth by having a glance at the characters children are offered with nowadays. Let’s check out how Zain, the child star of upcoming film ‘Hari Puttar’, shares his opinion on this issue…
Q. You are the lead in Hari Puttar. How do you react to that?
A. I think it’s a great chance that I am offered with because there are many senior actors who are still struggling for their …

Mumbai (IANS): It is going to be a very busy year for Aishwarya Rai. She not only has Mani Ratnam’s gruelling “Ravan” with husband Abhishek Bachchan to complete, she also begins work on Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next movie, with Hrithik Roshan, to be shot in Goa.
But before that she goes into filmmaker Vipul Shah’s next film with Akshay Kumar in the lead. Both Vipul and Akshay, who are co-producing the film, were very keen to get Aishwarya for what they describe as a genre-breaking drama.
Aishwarya has also signed up Excel …

Nikhil Advani is busy globe trotting for multiple premiers of his film ‘Chandni Chowk To China’. Any film maker would be hassled with a 24X7 routine that would not just involve multiple Q&A sessions pre and post the screening but also ‘hazaar’ scribes who would be in line to get a byte about the film. Add to that the pressure of being at helm of a truly international film (Warner Bros. distributes ‘Chandni Chowk To China’) and it indeed is an exciting yet tense situation out there. As Nikhil catches …

Shahrukh Khan caught everyone’s attention for smoking at Amritsar’s Khalsa college during the shooting of Rab Ne Bana Di jodi, now Ajay Devgan is in the dock.
The actor was spotted smoking at the Chandigarh Airport on Monday. The following day, Hemant Goswami, a social activist and the chairperson of the Burning Brain Society moved a formal complaint against the actor for smoking.
And on Wednesday, Devgan was booked for smoking at a public place and a rupees 100 fine will be collected from him. Devgan is in Chandigarh, shooting for his …

Sheikh Amer Hassan is a fashion graduate from the prestigious London College of Fashion and Bournville College of Art in England. Now living between Karachi, Lahore and London, he is one of the pioneers of fashion in Pakistan and famous as a designer, socialite and a social worker

I learnt so much about Jinnah during the making of my film Jinnah, the man of style shown on Indus Television on August 14, as my special gift to Pakistan and to our nation on its 61st birthday. It took me exactly eleven …

LONDON: World famous British couture designer Bruce Oldfield has in collaboration with Crosley Diamonds of London created the world’s most expensive abaya (Islamic dress).
The abaya that Bruce has created is covered in 4,668 individual diamonds with a gold weight of 359.7 grams of white gold. The total carat weight of the diamonds is 85.13 carats, and the colour of the stones is g/h and clarity is vs quality.
Source: Geo

Spunk and bold moves. That’s the new mantra of the Pakistani ramp. Models from Lahore and Karachi are wooing the world of international fashion.
Meet Neha Ahmed. At 23, she’s already catwalked in Paris and Dubai. Next month, she’ll do a show in London for designer Hasan Sheriyar. “We’re getting a lot more international exposure now. I’m listed with agents in Paris and Dubai and keep going for shows there,” says Ahmed. But entry into modelling wasn’t easy. “My father, an armyman, was furious. But that was then. Now, he’s cool …