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Truly, Madly, Deeply —Om Puri On his maiden trip to Pakistan for the screening of his films at the KaraFilm Festival, Om Puri, like most Indian celebrities visiting our country for the first time, finds himself...		Toons ’r us Though cartoons are already shown in Pakistan through the Cartoon Network (CN), the Turner Entertainment Network Asia (TENA) has decided to do a lot more keeping in view the sensitivities of...
‘I was spat at and called a traitor’ —Khaled In his black jeans and striped shirt, Khaled resembles the stocky boss of some Algerian trucking company. You’d never guess that he is “the king of rai”, and one of the...		Misery manifest Mental illness is part and parcel of rapid, haphazard urbanization the world over. Pakistan, particularly Karachi, is not immune from this global pandemic. Though the indigenous factors affecting each metropolis might...
‘Ta ra ra rum’ Fashion is all about personal interpretation. And this is how even the most outrageous outfit escapes with top billing, though opinions may vary on a large scale. Beauty, in this case,...		The Salim-Anarkali love story “Mohe pan ghat pe nandlal ched gayo re....’ flirted a delightfully mischievous looking Madhubala with the aanchal of her ghungat held between her pearly white teeth. Her ghagra was black, her...
STARBUZZ Celebrating two-and-a-half decades of success in the beauty business, Depilex held a get-together for friends, well-wishers, stylists, designers, celebrities and media personnel in both Karachi and Lahore....		Power of three A ghazal evening that took place recently in Karachi had everything in terms of salees Urdu, brilliant poetry, nostalgic location and Mughlai ambience. The grandeur of the Mohatta Palace served as...
STATIC All hail the mighty Black Sabbath. These four gentlemen from Birmingham, England who practically invented heavy metal, delivered this hard-driving gem, the title track from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, their 1973 masterstroke....		REVIEWSPREVIEWS Alexander Hampered by the flow of narrative epilepsy forced by Anthony Hopkins’ aged Ptolemy, Oliver Stones’ Alexander suffers from the fatal slash of historical preamble:...