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FOCALPOINT: The lights have dimmed Karachi has been called the ‘city of lights.’ Perhaps it flaunts this title for its well-lit boulevards, streets and alleys. At another level, despite its statistics for robberies, homicides, suicides, guns,...		FRONTSEAT: Terror on the sets In movies one usually sees him beating up 24 armed men single-handedly. Unfortunately, the scene witnessed recently was a real one when Moammar Rana, one of Lollywood’s top heroes, was...
‘I play black classical music’ So insisted, with confident certainty, an honorary doctor of humanities and doctor of music, known world-wide as Nina Simone, in an interview in January 1997. Born in 1933 as Eunice Kathleen...		STARBUZZ: Goodbye to films? A few years back, there was an impression that Noor would be the next number one heroine of Lollywood. She certainly had the looks and style, which is essential for a heroine, but one thing she didn’t have was the proper planning and temperament...
TUBETIME: PTV: changes in the air? With the departure of Yousuf Beg Mirza and the arrival of Akhtar Viqar Azeem at the helm of PTV’s ship, major changes are in the offing for the national network. The...		Entertainment at the mall The closure of the British Council to the public has been a source of disappointment to many as they have been deprived of its excellent library facilities and as a venue...
THEATRICS: A farewell to arms When discussing social commentary in the context of the arts, all the finely worded and ably acted critiques of tyranny and oppression don’t really amount to much if they cannot mobilize...		REVIEWSPREVIEWS: House of 1000 Corpses House of 1000 Corpses is a chaotic, cluttered ride till the very last frame. There is enough gushing and spurting blood in the movie to fill a tanker....
SPOTLIGHT: A new venture A name that has emerged on the horizon of Pakistani cinema as a film personality is that of Shahzad Gul. He is not an amateur churning out absurd odysseys, but a...		MUSICBOX: Bhangra ‘pao’ On average, Pakistani music albums don’t really occupy more than one shelf in music stores. Other than a handful of singers, none seem to satisfy the local music buffs’ demands. Fakhr-e-Alam’s...