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Lollywood – The Period full of Ups and Downs – (1991-1999)
The nineties saw complete downfall of the film industry with the demise of Nazrul Islam. There were no good directors to make good films, the situation nose-dived further as satellite TV, cable and CD invaded the market. Directors like Iqbal Kashmiri, Sangeeta and Pervaiz Rana churned out mediocrity in dozens. Syed Noor who has scripted ...
Lollywood – The Period of Crisis (1979 – 1990)
Pakistani Cinema became loud and localized, wanting in artistic or aesthetic merits. The large number of films produced in various vernaculars speaks for itself about the decline of the film world during this decade. The cancellation of all censor certificates of all films issued prior to the imposition of martial law, the new code of ...
Lollywood – The Period of Great Change (1967 – 1978)
During this period, Pakistan witnessed great political and social upheaval. The country lost its other half. Nurul Haq’s Jalte Suraj Ke Neeche was the last Urdu film from the golden land of what was known as East Pakistan. The former eastern wing (now Bangladesh) was an important film market for the Urdu films of Lahore ...
Lollywood – The Golden Era (1956 – 1966)
The restriction on Bombay films opened a new free and non-competitive market for local productions. This period introduced a great variety in the selection of subjects, dealt with by local cinema. Classic films like Jaffer Malik’s Saath Lakh (1957), W.Z. Ahmed’s Wadah (1957), Anwar Kamal Pasha’s Anarkali (1958), Saifuddin Saif’s Kartar Singh (1959), Masud Pervaiz’s ...
Lollywood – The Formative Period (1948 – 1955)
Pakistani Film Industry was trying to recover from the debris of social, political and economical catastrophe. Unrestricted imports of Indian films kept cinema houses running, thereby providing a big chunk of business for Bombay producers and their local Pakistani distributors. Most of the Urdu films of this period failed not only because of Indian competition ...
Lollywood -The Pre-Independence Period (1931-1947)
11 March 1931 will remain as the second most important date in the annals of the region’s history of cinema. On that day Alam Ara, the first full length locally-produced talkie film, was released at the Majestic Cinema, in Bombay. It was made under the banner of the Imperial Film Company owned by Ardeshir Irani ...
Lollywood – The Silent Era (1896-1931)
The United States, France, and Germany, lay claims and counter-claims about being the first to have invented the motion picture as a commercially viable form of recreation. Whatever the truth may be, it has been reckoned by all that cinema, the most wonderful of all entertainment arts, was born in 1895. The Lumiere Brothers of ...
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My loneliness, a blind abyss
Filling my breath
Ticking in my pulse
Etched deep into ...
Bindiya - Interview:
She pursued her dream in television and films despite her conservative family that had a hostile...
The Story of an Imp called Tanuja:
She is effervescent—like the fizz on her favourite drink, lemonade! Indeed, during the making of...
Mohammad Ali Fardin (1930 - 2000):
A former wrestling champion, Fardin was the biggest star in Iran's cinema during the 1960s and e...
K. Asif (1924 -1971):
A director and producer, Karimuddin Asif is best remembered for his dazzling period epic, Mughal-e...
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