Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 28, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
‘Burqavagenza’, a play was recently staged in March, and again in April during the Ajoka Indo-Pak ‘Panj Pani’ Festival, this year in Lahore.
Written and Directed by the eminent Shahid Nadeem (of Ajoka), the play is a harmless one – focusing primarily on the hypocrisy and two-facedness of a society that is swathed in [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 25, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
In a packed Alhamra hall, Ajoka wrapped up its ‘Panj Pani’ Indo-Pak Theatre Festival on a Monday night (the 23rd of April) with as much festivity and drama as its commencement, on the 18th of the same month.
The last mime/dance performance from this six day festival was put up by the ‘Bhoomika Creative [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 24, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Tall, lean, bearded and with a mop of wavy, dark hair (and even darker eyes) – Babar Khan’s personality was infectious. The kind that was sensitive, welcoming and thoroughly charismatic. A true vocalist in every sense of the word – the timber of his voice would deliver Floyd covers with utmost precision, depth [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 24, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
It is a sticky; almost uncomfortably warm evening in Lahore. Ajoka has been running its ‘Panj Pani Festival’ since the 18th of April (at Alhamra Mall) and with 2-3 stage plays running every day till the 23rd (of the same month), Ajoka has injected the spirit of culture back into the city’s pulsating [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 16, 2007
Artist: Co-ven
Album: Volume I and II
By Sonya Rehman
In smoke-filled rooms, notepads filled with hastily written lyrics and chords, and amidst a cacophony of self-taught guitar (acoustic or electric) notes and the reverberations of drums, boys (who are now men) gave middle-class artistic expression a whole new name at a time when the country’s music ’scene’ [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 13, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
‘Laree chuti’ a song from the 2007 released Bollywood flick, ‘Ek chalis ki last local’, is the band CALL’s latest Indian ‘venture’.
Directed by Sanjay Khanduri and starring Neha Dhupia, the film is a comic thriller which takes place at a local train station. Written and composed by Xulfi of CALL, the song, ‘Laree [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 13, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Dressed in a beige-cream shalwar kameez, author, Thalassa Ali cuts a graceful figure. Petite and elegant, her blond hair is neatly cut and behind her oval-shaped spectacles rest large and intuitive blue eyes. Her last book, ‘Companions of paradise’, has recently been published and she is in Pakistan for a book launch and [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 1, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Take a tragic geek (with bouts of OCD), a shiny magical wristwatch (that has a life of its own) and a successful author (who takes great gratification in bumping off her main characters) and what do you get? A film that is a cut above typical ‘family fluff comedies’ in terms of a [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 1, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Do you ever wonder why there are hardly any local shows worth watching despite the media explosion in Pakistan? Instep delves deeper into this oxymoron.
Every once in a while a bimbonic article comes along, swinging its little hips, pooh-poohing globalization; attempting to weakly strip, poke and prod it – by vociferously warning its [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 1, 2007
Instep gets the lowdown as another band bites the dust
By Sonya Rehman
With their debut album Green, released perhaps a little too late, Rungg finally called it a day towards the end of February, 2007. With Noori reduced to a duo without drummer extraordinaire Gumby and Fuzon reforming without Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, break ups seem [...]
