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FIRST PERSON: ‘I fit into the slot of director’ It was on the sets of Arzoo that these love birds met. It was purely fate that brought them together on this platform for the project was canned later on....		IN MEMORIAM: An actor par excellence: Farid Nawaz Baloch Seldom do our artists breathe their last with a contented heart. Farid Nawaz Baloch was an exception. An artist of the small and big screen, a gentle and humane figure, who...
FOREIGN FRONT: Ian McKellen, into the ‘Ring’ Ian McKellen is 62 now, and the years are visible on his face. A little tummy has formed on his lanky frame, and the thick shock of hair is of no...		STAR BUZZ: Situation on hold And just when we thought that Strings had yet again gone back to sleep (trying to accomplish a whole decade, or so we thought) news came buzzing in (irritatingly) that the...
FRONT SEAT: Bluntly yours Farah Shah exudes finesse and charm on and off the screen. Unlike her compeers, she gives lengthy answers if she feels like explicating. However, when she prefers to keep mum one...		REVIEWS PREVIEWS: Facing the enemy As expected, Gene Hackman’s latest starrer, Behind Enemy Lines is a concoction of the American military whose supremacy we have already seen in our daily lives — that is bombing civilians...
TUBE TIME: Portraying issues through TV Television is by far the most powerful and effective medium at present. It is estimated that the number of television sets in the country at present is approximately nine million. “BBC...		Suraiya, the singing star I had the privilege of meeting actress Suraiya and having lengthy conversations with her on several occasions during my tenure as chief representative of our national airline in Bombay, in the...
SPOT LIGHT: A long night of music It was in the last ten days of December, that Karachi reawoke to the deafening sounds of concerts. The city’s music chords had been shut down the whole of November due...		MUSIC BOX: Highly addictive! Until a few years ago, there were very few pop singers and those at the top were not regular with their releases. With the success of pop music and a host...