[ad_1] KARACHI/SLOUGH: ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ Arundhati Roy steps into the realm of memoir with Mother Mary Comes to Me, an intimate exploration of love, loss, and legacy. Written in the aftermath of her mother Mary Roy’s passing in 2022, the book is expected to offer a deeply personal look at the life of … Read more
[ad_1] KARACHI: It was 1966, when colour films were still a novelty, that Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky famously dismissed them as a “commercial gimmick.” For Tarkovsky, whose cinematic language flourished in the quiet, monochromatic worlds of Stalker and Nostalgia, the use of colour on screen was an extraordinary, almost otherworldly choice — far removed from … Read more
[ad_1] KARACHI: Shahram Azhar is somewhere between nostalgia and reinvention. He greets me over Zoom, with warmth and easy humour that feels like a balm for the slightly disjointed nature of online conversations. It’s the kind of interaction that carries a familiar tinge of the COVID lockdown yearshim in the UK, me in Pakistan, with … Read more
[ad_1] KARACHI: In one of the most iconic scenes from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Shah Rukh Khan teeters on the edge of every woman’s worst nightmare. His character, Raj, finds himself locked in a train compartment with Simran (Kajol). Simran is reserved, traditional, and decidedly uninterested in the charming yet invasive stranger determined to … Read more
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[ad_1] While social media thrived on hyper-surveillance and vitriol, cinema had a few delicate rebuttals KARACHI: 2024 was a strange year for women and their bodies. The Victoria’s Secret fashion show, scrapped in 2019 over a lack of diversity, plummeting ratings, and mounting criticism, returned without fanfare — or reflection. Its revival barely registered, generating … Read more
[ad_1] KARACHI: When Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote White Nights in 1848, he captured the ephemeral glow of St Petersburg summers – a season where night is barely distinguishable from day, and emotions, like shadows, blur and extend. It’s a story of fleeting connection, unrequited love, and yearning for something just beyond reach. Over 175 years later, … Read more
[ad_1] This Prime Video show is reshaping modern narratives and we need to talk about it KARACHI: The Boys is a four-season, satirical action series developed by Eric Kripke. Set in a fictional rendition of the modern world, the Prime Video production focuses on superheroes as the most prominent group of influencers in the media … Read more
[ad_1] KARACHI: In the quiet hours of a Sunday evening, the world of music lost a luminous star. Haniya Aslam, a visionary Pakistani musician, producer, and composer, succumbed to a sudden cardiac arrest, leaving behind a legacy bigger than borders and genres. Her untimely passing at the age of 39 is at once shocking and … Read more
[ad_1] Last commissioned play by the late Zia Mohyeddin, director Meher Jaffri’s adaptation debuts in Lahore next month KARACHI: Something about adapting a plague for the stage is elementally unlike a tale of star-crossed lovers, I remark to Meher Jaffri. She takes a moment to mull it over. Theatre proclaims a viscerality of its own. … Read more
[ad_1] KARACHI: Something about adapting a plague for the stage is elementally unlike a tale of star-crossed lovers, I remark to Meher Jaffri. She takes a moment to mull it over. Theatre proclaims a viscerality of its own. Tragedy or farce, the stage relies on the body as its fated mode of transmission. So what … Read more
