Former Prime Minster of Pakistan (Late) Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto would be shown on the silver screen in 2012. A close friend of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a leading British producer and filmmaker have decided to make a feature film on the life and achievements of Ms Bhutto. Dawn News further adds
Victoria Schofield and Farah Durrani, in collaboration with Insha Taqi Pauwels of Silverstream Productions, are working on the project. The film, titled “Benazir Bhutto - Destiny”, would be about the extraordinary courage of a daughter, a mother, a politician and a woman who risked all and paid the ultimate price when she was assassinated in Rawalpindi in December 2007, said a member of the team working on the project.
The team is at present finalising the script after which it will choose the cast. The film is expected to be released around the fifth death anniversary of Ms Bhutto in 2012. Victoria Schofield, a renowned writer and broadcaster on Pakistan and Kashmir, was a close friend and contemporary of Benazir Bhutto at Oxford. Their friendship spanned over 30 years from debates at the Oxford Union to Benazir’s first premiership in 1988. [click to continue...]
Mohib Mirza became the first Pakistani to win an award at the International Filmmaker Festival held in Kent, England. Mirza won the award for the Best Supporting Actor for the film ‘Insha Allah’, which also won the award for the best foreign language film. Directed by Khurrum Mahmood, the film was shot in Karachi, Pakistan and released this year in the United Kingdom. Actors, directors and movie buffs from around the globe attended the event where films were given special screenings.
The recent release of Royal Kill marks the arrival of Babar Ahmed who is a Pakistani Movie Maker in Hollywood. Ahmed is a graduate of Cambridge University in England and has taught the Honors Film making course at George Washington University in Washington DC. At present he has directed two films namely Royal Kill and Genius. We at Pro-Pakistan wish Babar Ahmed all the best in Hollywood as a mainstream filmmaker (more on this would be updated soon).
Quentin Tarantino’s (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) latest offering is the Inglourious Basterds, based on WWII drama including Brad Pitt as the leading actor. The plot is as usual very very interesting ; During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. (Imdb.com)
The 2009 Academy Awards are underway, and you can catch the action live at the following Link:
http://www.academyawards.com/
Would be updating all the winners in real time on this link. Besides pictures available would be uploaded as soon as possible. So will it be Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Slumdog Millionaire? TDK or MILK. Who is going to steal the show, stay tuned.
Update: Slumdog Millionaire is the biggest winner, results are attached below;
BBC Live Text Up-date
Here are the winners, as they are announced, at the 81st Academy Awards, which are being held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 22 February.
Bollywood has announced that a movie would be made on the attacks on Mumbai by the title Total Ten. It will be something reminiscent of the 300 movie directed by Zack Snyder, where 300 stood against thousands. It would be the same however, this time there will be only 10 against 3000 elite Indian Commandos A.k.a Boy Scouts. The script of the movie was written back in 2006 when Kasab was kidnapped from Nepal. With Bollywood latka Jhatka, and Wolf Noise to further promote their propaganda against Pakistan, the movie is expected to do better than the original writers RAW and BJP.Â
With the investigations still going on and the drama taking more twists than a 70s classic, the Bollywood has come up to cash in on the scene, so profoundly written by RAW and BJP fundamentalists. I am not sure the wife of ATS chief, killed by these Hindu Zionists would be really proud of the dancing crowd narrating the brutal story of her husbands killing. With the disapperance of the main witness Anita Uddaiya who was to identify the supposedly Pakistani terrorists, Kiddnaping of Ajmal Kasab from Nepal, mysterious killing of ATS chief and his comrades (who exposed Hindu terrorists in Samjhota Express)…The script is already written by Bollywood and would be expectedly much better than the onces written by RAW directors or at-least with less loop-holes. Â
The Results of the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards are out. Slumdog Millionaire bagged the most number of awards while Late Heath Ledger won the Best supporting actor category. Besides Kate Winslet bagged two awards for both best actress and best supporting actress. The full list of winners are as follows;
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon The Reader Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire [click to continue...]
Before i start on about these movies, let me say that its really hard to chop down a list of great movies, because everyone tends to have their best movies totally different from another list, so pardon me if some of the movies here are not among your list of favourite movies of 2008.
Top Ten highest charting movies of 2008 (INTERNATIONAL GROSS)
The Dark Knight ($996 Million)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($786 Million)
Kung-fu Panda ($632 Million)
Hancock ($624 Million)
Iron Man ($581 Million)
Mamma Mia ($572 Million)
Quantum of Solace ($536 Million)
Wall-E ($507 Million)
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ($419 Million)
Sex and the City ($415 Million)
So these were the most successful box office movies of 2008. I didnt like half of these movies, so lets move on to movies that are must see. Here are my favourite movies of 2008, and most of them are Oscar worthy.
Former Prime Minster of Pakistan (Late) Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto would be shown on the silver screen in 2012. A close friend of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a leading British producer and filmmaker have decided to make a feature film on the life and achievements of Ms Bhutto. Dawn News further adds
The recent release of Royal Kill marks the arrival of Babar Ahmed who is a Pakistani Movie Maker in Hollywood. Ahmed is a graduate of Cambridge University in England and has taught the Honors Film making course at George Washington University in Washington DC. At present he has directed two films namely Royal Kill and Genius. We at Pro-Pakistan wish Babar Ahmed all the best in Hollywood as a mainstream filmmaker (more on this would be updated soon).
The Results of the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards are out. Slumdog Millionaire bagged the most number of awards while Late Heath Ledger won the Best supporting actor category. Besides Kate Winslet bagged two awards for both best actress and best supporting actress. The full list of winners are as follows;
