Moving Closer, a 40-minute documentary by Serendip Productions, was screened at Alhamra Hall-II.
The documentary will also be shown in Bombay and Delhi and later screened on Pakistan Televison, Star Plus and Doordarshan.
Moving Closer is about Indian actress Urmila Matondkar and director Prahlad Kakar’s visit to Lahore earlier this year. The two joined Pakistani actors Resham and Shamyl Khan and video director Saqib Malik to make a music video for the Fuzon song Deewanay.
Serendip filmed the five-day video shoot to make the documentary, capturing the emotions of the creative cross-border crew …

A period movie is a daunting undertaking, even for experienced and accomplished directors and financially profitable production houses. In Laaj, former civil servant Rauf Khalid has ambitiously selected a true story from British India (1936) for his debut as a producer, writer and director. That made the production a multiple challenge. The film starts with love blossoming between a rich Hindu girl and a poor Muslim boy, which culminates in an armed clash between the British colonial rulers and the Pathans. How has he fared?

It is an offbeat movie, but …

From a gal who is giving up a promising silver screen career and limiting herself to only the small screen to one who is following the opposite path.
We are talking about the very successful and ravishing Natasha Hussain who is flapping her wings for a flight into the lofty horizon of filmdom. Initially Natty had agreed to make her Lollywood debut via Farooq Mengal’s maiden celluloid caper.
But she opted out, as she didn’t like the role that was offered to her – it is now being done by Resham.
Anyway, now …

The show got bigger this year. Not only did the organizers fly out to Dubai, giving the local entertainment industry much-needed international exposure, they also collaborated with a television network, ensuring a much wider audience than our local channels could ever pull off.
Indian talent, comprising professional dancers, stage designers and technical assistants, was flown in to fill the gaps, but this year’s Lux Style Awards could easily have been better executed than last year’s programme had the picture not been overexposed to the glitter and gaudiness of Bollywood. The India-based …

Film star Resham has recently declared that she is going to marry Mahmood Bhatti, a Pakistani designer in France. Mahmood Bhatti who had proposed to her couple of times before said he is deeply in love with Resham and has been completely overwhelmed by her love. Regarding their relationship Resham stated that they have liked each other for the past ‘ten years’.
Bhatti admitted that he was deeply in love with the actress, and that he had been “telling her to make an official announcement of our wedding plans, maybe in …

Karishma and Kareena Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Shushmita Sen, Sanjay Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor and Neeto Singh, Yash Chopra, Rakesh Roshan, Mahesh and Pooja Bhatt are just some of the Bollywood giants who have been invited by their Lollywood counterparts to spend this Basant in the city.
Most of these actors already have a Pakistani visa and others were in the process of getting one, said film director and writer Asif Ali Pota. He said the proposed programme includes a night at the Lahore Fort, which will be recorded by Prime …

Poor Resham is desperately trying to stay afloat in the topsy-turvy filmy seas. But it seems the efforts are not working.
Recently, the silken lass from Faisalabad invited a producer to her house on dawat She left no stone unturned to please and entertain the gent, who also thoroughly relished the attention and adulation showered on him.
Towards the end of the feast, upon seeing that the iron was hot, our lass implored the gent to take her in his films, promising that his every wish or should we say whim, would …