Biggest Scandal of Lollywood History!

After posting few articles I don’t think that I again need to say that Pakistan generally is a conservative country (I hope you can distinguish between conservativeness and extremism). From the starting of the Pakistan Film industry the biggest scandals we used to hear were either the real world affair of the Hero (of the movie) and the Heroin (of the movie) or the secret marriage of them. But it was 2001 when Lollywood faced the biggest scandal of its history. The Nude Photo shoot of Veena Malik. Well the first question comes who is Veena malik

Veena Malik:

She was born on 26th Feb 1984(the date is mentioned according to her statement) in Lahore. She started her career with the movie “Tere Pyaar main” which was released in 1999 and was the biggest hit of the year. She played the supporting role in that movie. And soon was considered a fresh breath for Lollywood. In the recent times she is one of the most famous personalities in Pakistan Television Medium too. And the credit goes to the great comedy show “HUM SAB UMEED SAY HAIN” which is all about showing the current Pakistani political conditions in a funny and taunting way

THE SCANDAL

The scandal was of nude photo shoot of Veena malik. The pictures were easily available on internet. And that was the biggest scandal of Lollywood history. Veena about that scandal says that:
“The photo-shoot you are mentioning is part of the anti-Veena campaign by my opponents in the film industry. I never went for a nude-shoot. Those are fake pictures. I am not bothered about them since those are not my photographs. I know there is a striking resemblance between the girl in those snaps and me but just resemblance takes us nowhere.”

It is hard to find out that, are these pictures real or a model (with great resemblance) have been placed to create mess and hurdles in Veena’s way. Because this is true that in the modern days Veena is considered one of the most glamorous female stars. I am not posting the nude picture over here as I don’t want to make my blog a porn site (lolz). But I can send the link if a reply with interest is posted.
The scandal slowly was finished and the general public was unable to know that what the reality was.

Bollywood Star and Their Respective Ministries

Bolly-wood Stars are not only active in Film Industry but also in politics. We see stars like Amitabh Buchan, Govinda, Shatro Ghan Sinha taking part in Indian politics. Suppose if these great bolly-wood Star are assigned the posts of Ministers of different department of INDIA, which post will be suitable for which famous star.

Prime Minister : Amitabh Bachan

Well known for his strong appearance not only on screen but also off the screen. He is no doubt the first King of Bollywood

Ministry of Wealth: Shah Rukh Khan

King Khan is not only a great star but he is the most intelligent businessman too. Recently his team lost” IPL” but still he was lucky as he made profits, no loss. He know how to make money even from scrap.

Ministry of Health: Selman Khan

Selman Khan is the first Bolly-wood star who really started body building and maintaining himself and his fitness and health. No doubt he deserved the ministry of health

Ministry of Sports: John Abraham

He is very famous for taking interest in the field of sports. He deserves the ministry of sports as he himself is a sportsman.

Ministry of Defense: Sunny Deol

He is one of the toughest fighters of Bolly-wood. The interesting thing is he very strong physically in real world is too. Has worked in many movies where he saved his country from enemies .Definitely he deserved the Ministry of defense

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Shilpa Shetty

In last few months she has gained international popularity due to big brother’s show. Her focus had been more on matter not related to film industry , and also with international media. SO I believe she deserves the Foreign Affairs Ministry

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan! One of the Greatest Icon of Music!

Pakistan is very rich country in terms of Music. Pakistan has got plenty of singers (and musicians) which have shown there talent not only at national but also at international level. But the one who really brought Pakistan in lime light of International music is THE GREAT (LATE) NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN. In the further post I will write the details of his early life but in this blog I want to post the comments which have been said by some great Music Icons

Late American rock singer JEFF BUCKLEY “Nusrat, he's my Elvis”. He also said in an interview, "I idolize Nusrat, he's a god too."

EDDIE VEDDER said “I was lucky to work with Nusrat, a true musician who won't be replaced in my life. There was definitely a spiritual element in his music”.


Nusrat Fathe Ali Khan has the credit that he was the first person in the world of music who mixed the modern music composing equipments with traditional Qawali(a form of music which is linked with spiritualism). He was also the first person to bring Qawali to the lime light and in the international world of music.
I will post his early life details within few days in my blog and that will be really interesting for you

Popularity of News Channels in Pakistan!

People outside Pakistan who have never visited Pakistan or have visited only once or twice or know a little about Pakistan think of Pakistanis as people which are away from the general politics. This was true few years back but the Pakistan of Today is completely changed. And all the credit goes to the TV Channels of private sectors of Pakistan.

The channel’s boom has really educated Pakistanis a lot. At-least in terms of politics and international politics. Today they know US attacked IRAQ not for any weapons of mass destruction but for oil, if India is shouting that attack on Indian embassy in Afghanistan was by ISI so it is the planning to get the basis to attack Pakistan. And all this is due to News Channels.

The boom of Pakistani TV channels came in 2002 with number 1 private TV channel of Pakistan “Geo TV”. Geo was the first channel after NTM (first private TV channel of Pakistan which closely worked and researched to know the interest of Pakistani People). I remember when it started its Test transmission, after first day every one was talking about GEO. I think it was a great thing because every second person was talking or thinking about GEO programs. For the first time people started watching news with interest as they knew that GEO will be neutral.

And after that in the next 5 years Private Sector has really worked hard to gain strong position in market. Today according the latest surveys Talk Shows, News, Debates and discussions on current political conditions are more popular then Dramas or musical shows. The major reason which I see as the reason for the popularity of News Channels is the updates, neutral news, hard talk with every politician and responsible guy for any dispute and the ability of fueling the fire. In the past PTV played the role of literally a DOG of government always putting news in favor of government. Many times the major updates and news of opposition of those times (no matter even if the opposition had biggest political leaders of the country) never use to get a place in PTV news. Things like that kept Pakistani people away from news and talk shows for a long time. But as Private sector entered the market with the aim of providing exact news and updates to people, they started getting attract towards news channels.
The biggest proof of popularity of news channels is that the last 5 channels which started their transmission, from those 3 are news channels and are listed in “A” category of channels where as the other 2 are entertainment channels but belong to “C” category.

I am happy that that the news channels are gaining popularity and are educating people at-least up to the level where people can understand International Politics

Note: The incidents told in the blog related to US policies against Iraq and Indian Embassy attacks in Afghanistan are not mentioned due to any personal feeling. They are just the conclusions which have been drawn by TV Channels.

Internet! Key to the treasure of Learning Filmmaking

Hi friends .The topic might be confusing for you that how internet is the key to the treasure of filmmaking? OK, I will tell you the two important points linked with internet which really are the key to learn filmmaking and that’s why I call internet the key to the treasure of learning filmmaking. Before telling about those two points I would like to tell you about me because internet has played a vital role in guiding me a lot about all the aspects of filmmaking.

I belong to the middle class of Pakistan. When the passion for filmmaking arose in my heart I started searching for filmmaking academies and universities. But that was the time when TV medium was just beginning to gain boom so there were no academies and institutes teaching filmmaking. It was a hard time. There were not even books available on the topic of “Filmmaking”. I searched on Amazon and found that there are book available on filmmaking but the prices are like 20 or 30 US dollars. It might be a small amount for US citizens but in Pakistan 30 dollars mean 1800 PKR(at that time 1 US Dollar was = 60 PKR). Now this is a big amount for a student. So I had only one way. And that was to meet Pro filmmaker on social networking sites and to learn more and more from them. The first social networking site I got connected with was http://www.orkut.com/. There are many filmmaking communities which I joined and started learning from them. Soon I got the web links of two great filmmaking forums. They were

1) http://www.indietalk.com/
2) http://www.filmmaking.net/

Both the sites have great professionals as members and they are always ready to help out. This was the first point I want to mention. Yes! Social networking on internet was the first point which helped me a lot in gaining lot of knowledge.

Now comes the second point. That was the free e-books which I got by nearly digging the whole e-books sites. I hate majority of the so-called free e-books sites. Because while searching they all used to say free e-books but when I visited them they had no e-books related to filmmaking or they used to ask for money which obviously I never had (in-fact which I still don’t have). But one day I got a site from which I got some great filmmaking e-books completely free of cost. And I downloaded all of them. It is really hard to find free e-books related to this topic but I was lucky enough to get these books.

I know filmmaking is something which helps more when done practically, but if you don’t have academies or training institutes in your area or if you cannot afford them then at-least you can learn a lot about major aspects of filmmaking by reading these books. So I believe this is the second point of internet which is a key to the treasure to learn filmmaking. I will always be thankful to the inventors of internet for providing us the blessing of internet due to which I got able to contact some great people (Filmmakers) and got around 10 free e-books, which if I had purchased would have cost me around 10,000 PKR

Thanks to Internet


NOTE: If you want to get any e-book (free of cost obviously) mention the topic under this post on comments with the topic name. Suppose if you want e-book on scriptwriting then post it in the comments with your email address. For every topic post the topic name separately.

4 Funny Mistakes of Pakistan’s Action Movies.

The most funny thing which our filmmakers do is that when the leading character (HERO) of the film has a rifle in his hand and as he start shooting the bad boys, the voice coming out of rifle is not of a rifle but gun.


Second funny mistake made by our filmmakers is that when the HERO is surrounded by bad boys having guns in their hands and the HERO has only one Gun (or a rifle) he moves round and round killing every one but none of the bad boys fire him


Third funny mistake is that in the climax HERO gets hit by hundreds of bullets but still doesn’t die where as the villain dies on the first bullet ! …..(lolz)


The fourth funny mistake is that while fighting with the villain when the HERO punches the villain the hand touches the body of villain first and the sound comes after at-least 10 seconds, and some times the voice comes even before the punch has been punched



If you are really interested in watching some senseless thing in your spare time , Pakistani action movies can be the best choice.

Vulgarity in Lolly-wood Films !

Once there was a time when Pakistani Cinema Industry was producing great movies and we were surprisingly getting copied by the famous Bolly-wood. I remember there was a movie which was copied 100%. Even the shots and camera angles were same. The interesting thing was that the lead role (female) played by Salma Agha in Pakistani movie was again offered to her in Bolly-wood movie too. At-last even we can say Bolly-wood copied us :d.

But after few decades when we had to suffer from Marshal Law of General Zia the industry nearly died. Experienced filmmakers and financers started getting on one side quietly. After the death of General Zia the industry had a chance to get on its feet. But this time the entrance was not of pro filmmakers but people who had black money and who wanted to convert it into white money. Sadly film like “MAULA JUT” got success at box office which was the beginning of the end. Along with these type of movies started coming vulgarity as an important part. The laws made by Zia were not Islamic but were more of a sick conservative extremist. The reason for what i call him sick is that he implemented Islamic laws which were only for the public. If he was honest enough he would have first admitted himself for a criminal trial. Well putting this issue aside and coming towards the vulgarity, as he died and corrupt people got a chance to invest in film industry they created their own mind that due to hard restriction on sex and other element related to sex and nudity people are dying to experience sex and nudity. So to satisfy them the best option is to make films full of vulgarity. Readers might think that they could have made Blue films! well the answer is simple. Pakistan’s culture (and public) would have never allowed them to do so. And that how they started bringing top class vulgarity in the movies. This was completely a wrong thinking set in the minds of investors. Though there was a small market for this sort of stuff but as a whole then general public was getting more and more away from the films. The element of vulgarity also gave the way to female prostitutes to enter the film market. And prostitutes started coming to Lahore from not only Lahore itself but also from Faisal-a-bad, Multan, Gujranwala and Peshawar. They had easy access to the film industry by just satisfying the physical need of the investors and not bothering about the most important issue that do they have any acting skills or not? The entrance of these sort of people gave more and more rise to vulgarity. As a result intelligent filmmakers and producers started shifting towards TV medium which has always been considered more respectable medium in Pakistan.

If we look at the movies which do business (or i should say used to do business) they all were (and are) movies without vulgarity and targeting the whole families as we believe in family or joint family system and have a conservative culture. None of the films having nudity and vulgarity have gained success in Pakistan. If we draw a conclusion then we can say that Pakistani people love family stories and love stories with good music.

The current situation is interesting because the so-called filmmakers are making movies with lot of vulgarity and all of them are getting failed on box office. Don’t know why they are not learning from the mistakes. On the other hand the satisfying thing is that people are getting more and more interested in good films. Any filmmaker with a good story is more then sure that people will like his movie as they are dying to see something good in cinemas. The examples can be films like “Khule Asmaan Ke Neeche” and “Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huaa” by Javed Sheikh, “Ram Chand Pakistani” by Mehreen Jabbar and “Koi Tugh Sa Kahan” by Reema Khan

So the market is still open for good filmmakers !