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FIRST PERSON: ‘Talent speaks for itself’ Had Munawwar Saeed’s family not migrated to Pakistan in 1960, we would have lost him to the Indian world of cinema and the performing arts. As a young student at the...		FRONT SEAT: New Sindhi music After the introduction of modern technology in acoustics, almost all aspects of music have undergone radical changes. Sindhi music is no exception. Despite the fact that its basic form has remained...
FOREIGN SEAT: The extraordinary Damian Lewis The middle-aged Italian waitress clearly does not recognise the actor she is shouting at or, if she does, she has had enough experience at being a sour-faced waitress not to show...		STAR BUZZ: The bard lives on Recently, Shakespeare’s birthday celebration was held at the British Council in collaboration with the Shakespeare Association of Pakistan. The greatest story teller of the English language was the focus of attention...
THEAT RICS: Plays galore The Community Works Society of IBA recently organized its three-day annual Drama Festival Artifice at its city campus, recently. Most of the theatre group’s performed well and the entire proceeds from...		REVIEWS PREVIEWS: A lost battle Watching Attila the Hun on film one was pretty disappointed. The acting was bad, the direction B-grade, and even though it was a war movie there were hardly any battle scenes,...
A minor with many majors Great things have already been written about the musical talents of this astonishing young vocalist with her remarkable vocal range, who took Pakistan by storm earlier this month during her all-too-brief...		SPOT LIGHT: An actor by default Nausheen Masud had already joined the television scene as assistant director when she was offered to play a part in a programme called, The Fringe Benefits. The offer came from the...
FOCAL POINT: The moon factor The prime time slot of PTV dramas is an important source of bread and butter for the organization. Once there was a time when streets would be deserted due to serials...		MUSIC BOX: Mostly the same A good live record is judged on it’s ability to catch the fury and vitriol of a band on stage, sans all adornments such as videos, digital audiotape and pretty girls....