Something to Whistle For.....Saima & Sana

RAMBUNCTIOUS front-benchers are waiting for the day, when Masood Butt’s latest venture, Nach ke Yaar Manana will be released in the local cinemas. Both Saima and Sana are starring together in a film after a long while, and the word is that the local cine-goers are planning to celebrate the occasion with lots of fanfare. Aside from the cat whistles and the stand-up-on-the-bench dance, the people are ready to raise slogans in appreciation of their favourite girls! Usually, the higher the thumka-jump from a Punjabi heroine, the bigger the applause. It seems that with the Aata and FATA in the news, the front-benchers want more action in the (mine) fields of the country. After all, the title says it all: Nach ke Yaar Manana!
Well, one would love to give the blow-by…umm thumka-by-thumka account of the flour-mills competition. It’s generally seen that whenever top film girls in Lollywood are wrenched apart for any reason, they usually calm down and indulge in less tree-hugging, hip-wiggling twists. But the moment they are put together in a film, their lacha-whirl is worth watching. Lollywood pundits believe that too much dependence on a star cast in the industry has sunk it in the dhol-drums! So, the coming together of the two feisty girls in a mind-blowing dance muqabla will kick the scales back up like the gas needle shoots up as the tyres fill up!
Well, it’s a matter of record that Saima is considered the top Punjabi film integer, and Sana is usually thought to have won more admiration in Urdu films since Javed Sheikh’s Yeh Dil Aap ka Hua became a whopper at the box-office. Of course, Saima is much senior, but when it comes to rump crunch, Sana can demolish a garden wall or bend a Bargad branch easily with her okha oomph! Actually, dekha jaey to both have had bad receipts at the box-office in recent times due to fewer good productions in Lollywood, and only in the second half of 2008 do things seem to be improving regarding the number of film openings. Another matter is the lack of characterization in our films now. If you watch the girls of the Sixties and Seventies, and even in the Eighties, you find that there were various different Punjabi heroines with their own particular habits and screen tantrums, which made them so different from each other. Actresses like Firdaus, Aaliyah, Rainy, Ghazala, Naghma, and others had their own images, and they had their own fan clubs. But, today, there’s no variety in such characteristics. All heroines have been given the same instructions, same screen tantrums, same gestures, which makes it so boring, and so monotonous. Today, it is one of the major reasons that Punjabi films are losing their popularity!