Instant karma
Ten years from now, they will still be known as the musicians from Peshawar who sang in English — an identity they will find very hard to shrug off. When Sajid and Zeeshan first came onto the Pakistani music scene, the idea of desi musicians singing in a foreign language was relatively unheard of....
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Daughters of Eve
Necessary Targets, a play written by Eve Ensler (of The Vagina Monologues fame) was staged in Karachi last week at the Commune Artist Colony. The play tells the story of two...
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Calling on Call
Call can easily be the most overworked band of the year. After blazing the local and Indian charts with the release of their album, Jilawatan, last year, the band has been busy making videos, performing live in concerts, composing and producing music....
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Let it ‘Loose’
Karachiites were treated to a fun-filled talk show lately, featuring Anwar Maqsood, Moin Akhtar and Bushra Ansari to help raise funds for Sada, a welfare foundation that extends help to underprivileged...
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Departing the Oscars
Surprise, surprise. After nearly a lifetime (26 years and seven nominations) of cinematic excellence, Hollywood director Martin Scorsese finally won his Oscar for The Departed, a mob masterpiece set in Boston, at the 79th Annual Academy Awards....
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The magic of music
lt was on a mild Tuesday evening last week that one ended up at the Karachi Arts Council auditorium amidst a crowd buzzing with anxious energy. Most among these were jazz enthusiasts, including a number of French and German attendants,...
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Colour me beautiful
The arrival of spring was heralded lately by quite a few activities in and around Lahore, and one of them was the Jashn-e-Baharan show hosted at the Asif Jah Haveli in the old city area....
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Static
One of the most stunning songs of 2006, no doubt, has to be the aforementioned tune by Brit space rockers Muse. Taken from the equally textured, finely crafted album Black Holes and Revelations, the tune is a wonderful example of experimental song-writing that has enough punch to make an impact on the pop charts as well. Bravo, Muse!...
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Starbuzz: Babar’s new ‘pahelian’
Babar Shaikh will be coming back into the realm of directing music videos after a two-year break with Pahelian, the first single off the band Mauj’s debut album....
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Reviews Previews
Smallville
The future man of steel, Clark Kent (Tom Welling) grows another year in the complete fifth season of Smallville, and stands tall against fellow Kryptonians, a changed Lionel Luthor (John Glover) and an election campaign that leads to the death of a loved one....
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