New Delhi (IANS): Bollywood actress Preity Zinta believes that every scene in her forthcoming release “Videsh”, a film about a battered Punjabi housewife in Canada, is some woman’s story.
The movie deals with domestic violence and Ms. Zinta is confident that women will identify with her character.
“Every scene in this film is some woman’s story. It is intense and beautiful. I can’t talk enough of the film. I just want every woman, man and family to go and watch this film. It is very important for people to support films like …

Pakistani teenager Mohammed Salim joins the crowd waiting at one of Karachi’s cinemas to see the blockbuster Indian thriller Ghajini — Bollywood’s biggest grossing movie ever.
The action movie starring Aamir Khan and based on the Hollywood film Memento spins a complex tale of a man with amnesia who tattoos himself and takes Polaroid pictures to remember people and places.
“I loved this movie, not just because it was made in India but because we don’t produce such quality stuff here,” Salim said afterwards.
Just a year ago, the screening would not …

The issue of legalizing homosexuality has led to heated arguments in the corridors of power in New Delhi, but that hasn’t stopped a Pakistani gay from professing his love for an Indian man.
A middle-class accounting student from Lahore, who founded a website called ‘Pakistan Gays’ two years ago for homosexuals, says he is in love with an Indian man he met on the Internet.
Yet he harbours no hope of living in a gay relationship in either Pakistan or India where homosexuality is illegal and tolerance for gays low.
“It is difficult …

The city of Nawabs is hosting Pakistani food festival to give with the Lucknawis a taste of the sumptuous Lahori spread.
Began on Friday, the “Zaika-e-Pakistan” aims at familiarising the people of Lucknow with the delicacies of Pakistan. Pakistani chefs would fly down especially to Lucknow Pakistan to prepare the vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies.
Pakistani food festivals have been held in several cities in the country, but it is for the first time that it is being held in Lucknow.
The organisers are planning to hold a similar “Lucknow Food Festival” in Lahore …

The pioneers of Pakistani rock music, ‘Junoon’ have been invited to perform at the finale of the MTV Awards ceremony in Bombay in December (known as the ‘Immies’, conducted jointly as the Indian Music Industry Awards). The star-studded awards show will feature leading Western artists as well as the crËme of Asia and Europe. These awards are the Asian equivalent of the MTV VMA’s (Video Music Awards) held annually in New York and the EMA’s (European Music Awards) held by MTV Europe each year.
Junoon was previously invited to perform at …