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STARBUZZ: Tragedy strikes
Actress Meera has undergone a profound change after the sad death of her younger brother, Murtaza Abbas, who was only 22. He died in a car accident in New York on the second day of Eid. She received the news in Karachi where she had come to attend a function and left straight away for Lahore, very distraught. His body arrived in Lahore after five days, and was laid to rest in a local graveyard the next morning.
Nearly all the big names of the film industry participated in the last rites. Meera had just bought the car for her brother and was very distressed that it was the same car in which he had died. She said that her life now had totally changed, as this was the first time she had gone through such a painful experience. She says she will work for the uplift of the poor and needy for the sake of her brother’s soul, and that she has changed the name of her charity trust from Shafqat to Murtaza.
The actress said that the last time she talked to her brother was on Eid day, adding that he sounded very happy. Meera says she is grateful to her colleagues for rallying around her in such a trying time.—M.J
Fit for a queen
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Too many cooks spoil Dubya. George W. Bush has allegedly offended Queen Elizabeth II by bringing no fewer than five of his personal chefs to Buckingham Palace.“Her Majesty greeted the news that Bush was coming with his own chefs in absolute silence,” a snitch told London’s Daily Telegraph. “That’s her general way of expressing disapproval. When you consider that she has excellent cooks herself, you can see why this would be taken as a bit of an insult.”
Bushy, who doesn’t like to travel abroad, may have been afraid the queen’s cooks wouldn’t fry pork rinds the way he likes them. The White House didn’t return calls. But the Telegraph quoted one Bush source saying, “He’s the president of the United States — maybe he needs a late-night snack.”
Hold the pretzels.—Rush and Molloy
Saving the day
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To say that 2003 was a bad year for Lollywood would be an understatement. Not a single flick released this year made any kind of mark on the scene, as most were formulaic bombs. The tinseltown people awaited Eid anxiously to see if the negative trend could be broken.Out of the four movies released, it was Syed Noor’s Commando, which emerged as the winner of the day. According to estimates, this movie has created a new box office record by doing Rs13.5 million business in five days. After Commando’s success, a new wave of activity has taken hold of the studios. There was a prediction that the Pakistan-New Zealand one-day cricket series would affect box office returns, but that was not the case. For Syed Noor, there is another reason to celebrate. His film Larki Punjaban has already been released in the UK and is doing good business there. It is set to release, until further notice of course, in Pakistan on December 25. In a press conference, when a journalist asked Shah Ji why he always casts Saima in his movies, he replied that he didn’t have any other choice, and that there was no other heroine in Lollywood of her calibre!—-MJ
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