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Taxi Driver (1954)
Synopsis Dev Anand’s best-known ‘proletarian’ performance as a taxi driver in a story inspired by film noir. Mangal (DevAnand) rescues Mala (Kalpana Kartik) from some hoodlums. This act of chivalry leads to a series of encounters with a violent criminal gang who, later in the film, steal Mangal’s cab to commit a bank robbery. Mala, ...
Asiya (1960)
Clearly influenced by Satyajit Ray’s “Panther Panchali”, the director Fateh Lohani tried vainly to capture the lyrical beauty of Bengal’s countryside in sequences lingering unnecessarily. Fateh Lohani did not seem to have a clear idea about the exact moment when one episode should take over from another, making each either too long or too short. ...
Kancher Deyal (1963)
Apart from Jago Hua Savera, Zahir Raihan’s Kancher Deyal was probably the neatest film from the point of view of film making. Unusual camera angles, imaginative lighting, ‘involved’ direction and some crisp editing spoke highly of the young director’s promise as a film maker. The principal reason for its failure seems to be an over-confidence ...
Roopban (1965)
In the commercially successful film “Roopban” we find a glorification of the fantastic sacrifices of an (ideal) oriental woman. Roopban, a girl aged twelve (in old times a girl over ten used to be considered too old for marriage) burdened with a flourishing youth is told to marry a new-born prince aged 12 days which ...
Yeh Dil Aapka Hoa (2002)
The wait is finally over and more than the crew of Yeh Dil Aapka Hoa, it’s the audience who was waiting to see the film. They aren’t disappointed but aren’t smiling on their way back home either. Yes it is different, but the only difference is that now the same old wine is in a ...
Pyaar Hi Pyaar Mein (2003)
Fahim Burney’s debut directorial venture Pyaar Hi Pyaar Mein was the second most anticipated release of 2003, the first being Samina Peerzada’s Shararat. Though the film successfully evoked curiosity for its sophisticated imagery and lifted scenes before its release, expectations from it weren’t sky high, since the element of originality was missing even in the ...
Pehla Pehla Pyar (2006)
Depilex Vision’s Pehla Pehla Pyar is a misdirected attempt at film-making. Mubasher Luqman directs the flick and sadly joins Faheem Burney and Asif Ali Pota in the ever-growing list of directors who migrated from TV to film, but failed to impress in their first attempt. The film seems more like a play on a private ...
Neela Parbat (1969)
The basic pattern of the themes of Pakistani productions is more or less fixed and few directors would dare to venture into variations outside it. All stories have a built-in fairy-tale like quality. Problems of various kinds are created without regard for realism. As unreal problems do not call for realistic solutions, the ‘problems’ created ...
Mother India (1957)
Mother India (1957), the Indian Gone with the Wind, is Mehboob’s most famous film and has achieved the status of an Indian cinematic epic. Mother India took three years to make, and is actually a remake of one of Mehboob’s first films, Aurat (Woman, 1940), starring the wonderful actress Sardar Akhtar (who had already worked ...
Majajan (2006)
Syed Noor’s much awaited Punjabi language film Majajan is finally out. The showman had cancelled the release earlier for almost three times – once due to the October 8 earthquake, then the Pak-India Test series and most recently Eid-ul-Azha – adding to the hype of the film and testing the patience of Pakistani cine-goers. With ...
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Zehr-e-Ishq (1958):
Zehr-e-Ishq is a bold experiment in finding new and better values for the Pakistani film. It def...
Greta Garbo - Robert Taylor in Camille:
Camille, the story of a young innocent whose love transforms a kept woman, was almost a century ol...
Agha G.A. Gul:
Amongst the families, which have worked diligently at keeping the film industry on consistent gr...
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