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Intezar (1956)
Select Pictures’ Intezar, marks a welcome departure from the usual film themes and modes of treatment. It is a successful experiment. Leaving aside the unnecessary elements of box-office stories and cutting down all superfluous matter; the scenarist has created a drama with real characters from life. He keeps the audience engrossed not by any extraordinary ...
Baiju Bawra (1952)
The greatest strength of this historical film about Baiju Bawra (Bharat Bhushan), the musician who challenged the court musician Tansen to a musical duel (a jugalbandi; performed here by Ustad Amir Khan and Pandit D. V. Paluskar) to avenge the murder of his father, is not surprisingly the outstanding music composed by one of Hindi ...
Heer Ranjha (1970)
Producer-Director Masud Parvez and music wizard Khurshid Anwar are back in splendid form. Together they have scored again; and this time it is Waris Shah’s Heer Ranjha. Between them, these two proven artists and craftsmen have made a color film version of the romantic classic that, despite a few slips, is a worthy tribute to ...
Chandralekha (1948)
In Madras, in 1948, after five years of preparation, there appeared one of the most famous films in Indian history, one of the largest all-India box-office triumphs (603 copies of the film were made for release, some of which were subtitled for the English-speaking market)—Chandralekha. This breathtaking extravaganza, a combination of southern excessiveness, Busby Berkeley ...
Sassi (1954)
Produced in 1954, Sassi – a love legend from Balochistan and Sindh – was a big budget movie and was filmed around the most picturesque areas of the country. Sabiha was cast in the title role, as the daughter of the chief of the washermen’s clan of Sindh, and as such got individual credit in ...
Shaheed (1962)
Shaheed, a stunning b-&-w movie, was released in 1962. It was written by Riaz Shahid, and directed by Khalil Qaiser, both men destined to be removed from the board by exploitative forces just on the fringes of the 1970s. One has always known that good literature or even all art, pre-empts situations and events to ...
Zehr-e-Ishq (1958)
Zehr-e-Ishq is a bold experiment in finding new and better values for the Pakistani film. It defies convention in almost every respect – subject matter, treatment, and music. There is no relying on pseudo drama or cheap emotionalism. This clean film raises the crucial question – how far aesthetic values can be adhered to in ...
Jago Hua Savera (1959)
A.J. Kardar’s featurised documentary Jago Hua Savera (released abroad titled Day Shall Dawn) undoubtedly earned Pakistan whatever international prestige it has in the realm of cinema. The theme was based on the lives of the fishermen of East Bengal. It was beautifully shot by the distinguished British photographer Walter Lassally. Kardar received his filmic training ...
Hamraaz (1967)
Khurshid Anwar’s Hamraaz provides an excellent example of a film artist’s ability to make a clean and engaging film even when compelled to compromise in the selection of theme. Hamraaz is a thriller, but vastly different from the thrillers made in Pakistan because the characters symbolize the contest for supremacy in a cognizable social system. ...
Ghoonghat (1962)
An off-beat, purposeful theme, mounted with the skill and precision of a surgeon, and treated with the warmth and imagination of a poet, Ghoonghat is another addition to classic Pakistani films. Ghoonghat is not only a source of inspiration for the imaginative technicians but a slap on the face for the plagiarists and the box-office ...
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