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FIRST PERSON: Arrogance personified I do not give interviews and that is how it has been since the day I entered this field. I do not feel the need for interviews, neither do I go...		FOCAL POINT: Children of a lesser god The upscale environs of a local Karachi hotel hardly seem appropriate to launch a child welfare organization, but that is exactly where the inauguration of singer cum social worker Shehzad Roy’s...
OVER VIEW: The three Vs of Punjabi cinema — vengeance, violence and vulgarity They all start with a cause and the cause is invariably good. In Sher-e-Lahore released last December, it was a daughter’s honour. In a subsequent release Goonda Tax, it was an...		REVIEWS PREVIEWS: Faith and trust win The sequel to the Peter Pan movies, Return to Neverland, is in animation that has the story of Wendy and her kids in trouble....
RISING STAR: The anchor man Abbas T. Hashmi’s arrival in the world of television can be regarded as somewhat, controversial. “Nobody, and I mean nobody from my family was happy with my decision of going to...		STAR BUZZ: Business with pleasure Recently, a multi-national company launched a new brand of soap at a five-star hotel. To put a little pep into an ordinary event, the PR company arranging the programme came up...
FOREIGN SEAT: So, Nelly, what kind of bird are you? To her manager, Nelly Furtado is “the new Madonna”, to her record label “the female Beck”, while her languid singing style has been likened to that of fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell,...		SPOT LIGHT: A festival of culture Lahore has always been the hub of cultural activities but for the past few years, there have been so many festivals and carnivals scheduled between November and March that at the...
FOCAL POINT: Media women march on The month of March had activities focussing on women and their roles in various fields of life. Media Women Publishers and Journalists Organization too, paid, homage to media women by holding...		MUSIC BOX: A new concept Gone are those days when we had just three mainstream pop bands — Vital Signs, Awaz and Junoon who released their work annually. Our top vocalists, today, constantly survey new avenues...