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Venus rising The petite and charming Sonya Khan started off as a model, later becoming an anchor person and then graduated to acting. She was going great guns in her career when she suddenly disappeared for a year or so, giving rise to a lot of speculation. Why the lean phase?...		The dying concept of live entertainment One Friday night, I fell asleep with my ears buzzing into my pillow like there was a dead radio hissing underneath the bed. The adrenaline from the preceding hours had dissolved and I drifted into sleep...
So close, yet so far If Kubrick hadn’t blown the budget, if Orson Welles had been more organised, if Hitchock’s hero hadn’t been ‘too ugly’ ... Fergal Byrne on the great unfinished films we’ll never see...		The new face in fashion As an over-achiever from the Asian Institute of Fashion Design, Aziz Ali remarkably displays no airs. Whether this approach will fare him well in this cut-throat field this writer cannot be...
Humming to a new tune At long last Hum TV celebrated a gala event with much fanfare recently, marking the celebrations with an impressive guest list comprising the who’s who of the fashion and entertainment industry....		New singer on the block A lucky break is what many great crooning talents have yearned for before making it to the dizzy heights of stardom and success. Shazia Manzoor, a phenomenal success in our otherwise...
Viva – Las Vegas! It rises from the rocky remains of the Nevada desert like a distant mirage aglow in searing tints of neon. Its unreality manifests in the fact that even in the prosperous...		The debate continues Now that the Pakistan government has given its indulgent nod to screen Mughal-i-Azam in the country, it remains to be seen whether it could prove to be the first step in...
Things to learn from modern plays The faithful TV viewer is absorbed in watching his/her favourite play, looking at the sprawling interior of a supposedly huge mansion (with a default red-carpeted spiral staircase) so big that you...		ReviewsPreviews: XXX: State of the Union The United States faces a brand new threat in XXX: State of the Union, one which could prove to be the deadliest yet. August Gibbons (Samuel L....
MusicBox: Intothebigtop Ali Azmat’s eagerly awaited debut solo album away from the Junoon mothership, Social Circus, has kept true to the tradition of his music; the more you listen to it the more it grows on you....		MusicBox: The flowers or romance Ajab Gul moves in mysterious ways. He claims to have helped music composer Zain in creating the memorable, hummable and above all, listenable songs for Khoay Ho Tum Kahan, his debut directorial venture four years ago....