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Well read previuos pages, there are two or three reviews posted including mine. Your questions will be answered after reading them. If you still have questions, do let me know and I will answer them.
Ah I read yours, interesting, have to see what the fuss is about, and what the 'controversy' is really over.
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In its 3rd week, a print is being added in Karachi and the film is set to open up in still more cities across Pakistan. It's going to create a record of sorts of it makes 3 crores in 3 weeks!
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Shehnaz (Sheikh) Seerat...lives in Lahore. She runs an Advert Company with her hubby Seerat..by he name of KARGAR. I posed the same question on Shenny when I last met her at Lahore during Basant. She said she doesn't have time besides she has lost the knack of acting as well. I agree that she was one of the BEST talent Pak Showbiz has ever produced and boy!!! what grrrreatt time we had recodring UN KAHI..and so sweet are the memories that sometimes I get in a total blue mood when I think of my dearest buddy Jimmy (Jashed Ansari) and Saleem Nasir (who played Mamoon's role) not to forget the duo; Late Mohsin Ali and Shirin Khan...the Executive Producers. In my book I am writing on the history of PTV Serials and Dramas of YESTERYEARS...he cast of UN KAHI, UNCLE URFI and KHUDA KI BASTI (in which I got the best suporting actor award in 1970) will have many pages and photos.
On KHALIDA RIYASAT....she was a magic girl!! a real darling to all. An incredible performer--who made her debut in Bakhtiar's "NAAMDAAR" (1975) with Shakil and me as stock artiste with her. She was a wonder of all. Truly an amazing personality in caste and creed. A GRRREATTT artsite by all counts.
In 1981, I was lucky to be casted by Kamal Ahmed Rizvi (ALLAN) for his series "AAP KA MUKHLIS" with ROOHI BANO from Karachi Centre of PTV. It was great to work with this BORN Artiste. Later I did "GHORA GHAAS KHATAA HAI" with her at Lahore Studios direced by Sikandar Shahen. ROOHI after some seismic problems on her health, is gradually recuperating and should be back on your tube soon...though I cant, at this stage, say whether she'll be same Roohi Bano we remember or a changed one.
Cheers------------Raju
wow, thank you for the update on Shehnaz Sheikh sir. this is the first piece of news about her in the longest time.
it's too bad that she doesn't want to act any more. if you run into her again, please convey to her the good wishes of her many, many fans. her fans (like me) still haven't forgotten her. I was a kid when I saw Tanhayian (was one of the first plays I saw) and ever since, I've been in love with Shehnaz. she is a tremendous, tremendous artist. and we all miss and love her. I hope I have a chance of meeting her once and telling her how much she's meant to her fans. I always joke with family that I will be the one to get Shehnaz out of her self-imposed retirement.
regarding the book, I think it's a brilliant idea. it will be a treat for PTV drama fans like me. I assure you that I will be buying a copy. so, please complete it soon and post here when it is out in the market. would love to get my hands on it.
Unkahi, Uncle Urfi and Khuda Ka Basti (the original - not the terrible remake on Geo) are some of my favourite plays especially Unkahi. Saleem Nasir was hilarious in that play. in my book, he ranks as Pakistan's greatest actor. he had tremendous range. I had difficult believing that it was Saleem Nasir when I saw him play Captain Sarwar Shaheed in Nishan-e-Haider. it was such a radical departure from Mamoon in Unkahi and Akbar in Angan Terha. he was a giant amongst us mere mortals. it's sad that he had to leave us so soon. it's true when they say that the best of us leave early - too early.
many giants of Pak drama have left us in recent times including Jamshed Ansari, Subhani Bayounis, Azra Sherwani, Mohsin Ali. I read Hasina Moin's tribute to Mohsin Ali when he passed away - it was very touching and sad. I'm not sure if these artists know about much we (the awam) really love these artists and when they leave this world, it feels like a very dear friend, a part of us has left us.
I have Khalida Riaysat's Parosi (probably one of her last plays) on DVD. she was a virtuoso performer. one of the very, very best that Pakistan produced. similarly, Roohi Bano - one of the very first plays I saw was a long play starring Roohi Bano, Khursheed Shahid, Firdos Jamal and Tauqeer Nasir. it must have been almost twenty years ago now but I still remember it clearly because it struck me in a way few things have. it was a shock to hear of Roohi's illness and then her son's sad demise when you consider how many people absolutely adore and love her. how can people who are loved so much by so many suffer so much?
I have a dream to one day open a center of excellence for performing arts (like NAPA) and dedicate it to the memory of my heroes like Saleem Nasir, Shehzad Khalil, Khalida Riyasat, Subhani Bayounis, etc. these people and their memories deserve a lot more respect than what they are given. we are ever ready to celebrate ordinary outsiders but forget our own giants and heroes. maybe I'll be able to rope in Shehnaz to be involved with the center in some capacity. :)
lastly, please post here when your book is completed. I'd love to buy a copy as I'm sure would many other Pakistanis. the plays you mentioned form the golden age of Pakistani drama and many of us treasure and miss those days. that time period was magical and very little of it is documented. it needs to be documented and preserved because it was the height of artistic excellence. we are lucky to have witnessed art of that quality on our screens.
thank you for your time and posts. they are much appreciated. :)
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must check out it:
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^ get a life.
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Whats the movie about really? I read the synopsis, but I dont know if it encourages muslims to stand up for themselves and be strong or does it depict muslims as suckups that cannot live on their own unless aided by foreigners? Or is it based on the modernization of Islam?
Has anyone seen it?
I don't think it does any of that. It just tries to explain why things are the way they are.
Of course, the bias is probably leaning towards encouraging people TO NOT go off and start suicide bombings and go off fighting in Afghanistan in a jihad. But then no sensible muslim would oppose this, right?
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Well aslong as he isn't presenting his own version of Islam, he can do watever he wants. Still those comments against JJ were pretty ignorant and childish.
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JJ telling everyone to stop listening to music because its haraam is pretty silly and childish. Hence the inspiration for the movie. But I think it seems to touch upon more serious issues than whether music is haraam or not.
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^ No issue in Islam is greater or lower than the other, every issue has a direct/indirect effect on the other. If JJ is promoting something good and out of the traditions of the man we claim to love (Prophet pbuh) then its not silly and childish, as you can see then who those statements are directed towards..
I asked in the other thread too, for the sake of discussion, why dont they spend the millions spent on this movie, to feed hungry children in pak?
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I can ask the same of the Lal Masjid goons who took up the nation's economy for a full week and whose effects have now caused massive deaths and more economic turmoil for honest Pakistani citizens due to increased suicide bombings.
If this movie can help change that mindset and stop people from doing gunda gardi in the name of Islam, then its money well spent.
God knows that the local Imams, and Islamic scholars have failed in this department.
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^ yeah um, secrets to a building a prosperous state were given 1400 years ago. We dont need a man lacking knowledge in Islam to reveal his 'solutions' to us.
Rather the movie should be made on how we deviated from those guidelines given to us to be an ideal state, how the government and the people (some of them) have totally changed the religion of Islam and are now escapegoating their failure on people who were formed to fight the govt in the first place! With the worst god forbidden tactics (Suicide bombings). This should be shared by them, and the people (govt, etc) who initiated events to lead up to this devastation in pak.
Ponder why Pakistan was created in the first place, perhaps then it would be money well spent.
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You don't think there should be public projects on getting people to understand that we shouldn't be picking up guns and hurting innocent people to solve all our problems?
Ok...
Watch the movie, then speak. Your mind is already set against it and you haven't even watched it.
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btw wat movies came on DVD? even the movies [indeed third class] shown on GEO or zee or B4U are Camera prints. 
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iman it will rock
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Its better if they put some model good one
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I have it on pirated DVD now, and will be putting it up online very soon.
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shan look like after a year he take shower coz in panjabi movies its too funny
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I have it on pirated DVD now, and will be putting it up online very soon.
man respect law buy origional copy where u from
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your opinion shall soon change.