'Josh' selected as first Lollywood film to screen at UK film festival

Pakistani film Josh is the first Lollywood film selected to screen at the London Indian Film Festival. Written, directed and produced by Iram Parveen Bilal, the Lahore-made project will have a number of screenings throughout the festival. Indian cinema expert for Cineworld Cinemas Ashanti Omkar told Digital Spy: "The film Josh is an incredibly powerful one, made by a woman director from Pakistan." Omkar explained that one of the aims of the festival is to introduce audiences to other forms of cinema beyond Bollywood. "This year at the London Indian Film Festival, the programming team sought after films in many of the regional languages...

Rabia Butt’s ‘Hijrat’ to the big screen

LAHORE: Two-time winner of the Lux Style Award for Best Model, dusky beauty Rabia Butt is now gearing up for the big screen. After stints in commercials and music videos, Rabia is set to star in Farooq Mengal’s debut film Hijra...

In order to beat The System, you have to shoot it

LAHORE: Pakistani cinema is going through a growth spurt. The Eid releases of several new films, Waar, Main Hoon Shahid Afridi, Ishq Khuda and Josh, are proving infectious and a Norway-based Pakistani distributor has announced that he is gearing up for a big-budget production titled The System. Shehzad Ghafoor is the son of Ghafoor Butt, a distributor and producer of Pakistani cinema. However, Shehzad does own his own distribution company in Norway. Up until now he has mostly done business in Bollywood and Lollywood fare. The System will be his first film as a director but he does have some experience with smaller projects such as music...

The Lux Style Awards ‘googly’

The city of Lahore hosted its very first Lux Style Awards on Thursday, a night full of razzmatazz, glamour, shocks, disappointments and high voltage. In typical Lahori fashion, the red carpet, which was supposed to start at 5pm, kicked off no earlier than 7pm at the Expo Centr...

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