Bandish: Pakistan’s Superhit Movie

Posted on August 25, 2007
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Owais Mughal In May 2007, we had introduced Pakistan’s greatest blockbuster Movie called Aina. Today we are back with yet another superhit movie of Urdu cinema called bandish. Bandish was released on November 1, 1980 and it was a co production between Pakistan and Indonesia. Besides completing a 81 consecutive week (platinum jubilee) screening in […]

Farida Khanum: Tribute to a Ghazal Maestro

Posted on August 19, 2007
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Adil Najam Last year the mobile phone company Mobilink had released a wonderful tribute to Mehdi Hassan on the occasion of Independence Day, conceived and produced by actor Shaan; now of Khuda key Liye fame. We had carried a number of posts on that wonderful tribute (here, here and here) and have recently featured it […]

Aina: Pakistan’s Greatest Blockbuster Movie

Posted on May 27, 2007
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Owais Mughal In its prime days, Pakistan’s Urdu cinema has produced many big hit movies. The biggest blockbuster of the golden era was the movie Aina. The movie title Aina is pronounced aaina and the English translation of the title is a mirror. This movie was so popular that it was shown in a Karachi Cinema […]

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