While we still don’t know the mystery man playing the male lead in Mira Nair’s upcoming film, based on Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid’s second book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, it has been announced that Meesha Shafi has been cast in the film. “One singer Meesha Shafi has been cast in Mira Nair’s next film The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” reported Rediff News. When contacted by The Express Tribune, Shafi’s representative refused to comment, saying she has been refrained to give details to the press at the moment.
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After making his mark in Bollywood, singer, songwriter and actor, Ali Zafar could now be starring in Hollywood films.
Speaking to the media at the launch ceremony of a salon in Lahore, Zafar said he has signed on for two more Indian films and also has an offer for a Hollywood film.
He also announced that the shooting of his new movie, “Meray Brother Ki Dulhan” has taken place.
Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif is due to visit Pakistan in September for the premiere of his film.
Kaif and …

In the Ice Candy Man, written in the backdrop of 1947′s Partition, Bapsi Sidhwa wrote: “And the gramophones and speakers mounted on tongas and lorries scratchily, endlessly pouring out the melody of Noor Jehan’s popular film song that is now so strangely apt,” Mere bachpan ke sathi mujhe bhool na jana, dekho, dekho hanse na zamana, hanse na zamana. When director Deepa Mehta made the novel into the movie Earth, she chose the same voice from the same 1946 hit Anmol ghari, but a different song: Jawan hai mohabbat, haseen …