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Yoyo you got me wrong. I am not saying you are not telling us the truth but the fact remain's Mubasher's priority should be the releasing of PPP.

Yoyo this news about Mubasher making a docmentary for PTV is unbeliveable.

Come yoyo the fact is the film has done much better then Larki Punjaban here in the UK. Just look at the box office figures.

Syed Noor has already booked the "Empire Cinema" in Lahore for his film Majajan. KTSK is still being shown at the Metropole and at Fortress in Lahore.

Mubasher Luqman should hurry up or what ever DTS Cinemas which are left in the main cities will be booked by other film makers. Can't understand what the delay is. At the end of the day 3-4 crore rupees has been invested in this film. Does Mubasher Luqman not want a return on his money.

Either Mubasher has a very understanding producer or he is loaded himself.

Kathrina Kaif can't even speak Urdu/hindi properly.

Agree with you Golimoro2 that Hamayun Saeed thinks that casting Indian actresses in our dramas more people will watch them and know he is doing the same thing in films.

Kathrina Kaif has been signed opposite Humayun Saeed. The film's shooting is going to start in South Africa soon.

What I have read today in a Urdu daily that Shehzad Rafiq returned from India a few days back with the complete script.

yoyo you might be right. Few days might be a few weeks.

Look Syed Noor keeps on saying that he will include new faces in his next project but always ends up casting Saima.

I have nothing against Saima or Syed Noor. Syed Noor still is a very talented director and Saima is a good actress.

The fact is Saima is in Every Syed Noor film and in alot of the films the role did not suite Saima.

The latest is that Shehzad Rafiq has returned from India and has had the script completed for his movie.

There is also a thought that the name "Tere Liye" might be changed.

Well this might surprise alot of people but Syed Noor has decided on the heroine of his film "The price of Honour" and for once its not Saima but a new girl. She is supposed to be the cousin of Adeleeb.

I don't now which Andeleeb is this but it could the one who appeared in Syed Noor's Ghunghat.

A totally useless film. Don't waste your time. Also read this review below.

Salaam Namaste review:

My Dil Goes Mmmm” the trendy-looking leading pair hum while skipping down the road. Alas, there is very little here that makes my heart skip a beat, never mind go ‘mmmm’.

Siddharth Anand wants his “Salaam Namaste” to be a mature look at relationships but he also wants it to be a vacuous screwball comedy. You can sense a struggle between the two genres and Anand never lets the film get introspective, eventually letting it end up as an overdone romantic melodrama that is only too aware that the audience might be watching.

The signs of an overanxious new director (this is Anand´s debut) are obvious. He is so desperate to grasp the audience´s attention that he uses manipulative gimmicky plot tricks. Each time a character appears, the narrator (Abhishek Bachchan) takes us through their history and background. Even less important supporting characters are not spared this and they too go through the motions of tacky introduction sequences. Such god-awful narrative methods made me wonder if Anand had any regard for the audience´s intelligence or if he was making cinema for Dumbos. Why not just let the story itself explain the nuances of the characters?

The babyish treatment is inappropriate for a film that deals with a grown-up and sensitive topic. Despite the packaging, the topic is fresh and not something that we often see in this lane of Hindi cinema. Nick and Ambar (Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta) are two Indians who live in the Australian city of Melbourne. Nick is a chef and Ambar is a radio show presenter. Nick is a night owl and not one to trust for morning appointments since he falls asleep so late. He is too late for his morning interview on Ambar´s radio show and the girl is so peeved that she spends the next few days assassinating his character on the programme.

Finally, they meet for the first time and the mutual hate turns into mutual attraction and pyar vyar and gaana bajaana etc. Ambar is not convinced of Nick´s love for her so he suggests one thing - they live together to find out just how much they love each other. Everything is fine and hunky-dory until a new visitor arrives in their relationship. Ambar is pregnant and a baby is the last thing that Nick wants.

The characters are irritating, which doesn’t help the actors one bit. Saif Ali Khan spends the entire film whining and complaining. His character is an immature and unlikeable one. Khan’s comedy gives us the occasional break but the humour is often forced and at odds with the repressed delicate layers of the story. Preity Zinta is getting repetitive as an actress and seriously needs to take up more challenging and diverse roles. Her character is a regurgitation of Naina from "Kal Ho Naa Ho". The two stars overact in their bickering scenes and these sequences are very drawn-out. The script makes the fatal mistake of exaggerating the fights to keep the humour in the frame.

There are insightful moments that make up for the chaos elsewhere. When Nick feels the baby kick in Ambar’s tummy or when Ambar comes out of her maternity class and feels loneliness, the film finally begins to scratch below the surface and show a bit of depth. But the way the story is wound up is frustratingly contrived. Siddharth Anand uses a number of plot devices, which involve the one-night-stand-that-never-happened as well as Ambar´s-water-breaking-earlier-than-expected, to bring a thuddering halt to the maturity that the story was beginning to show.

This film suffers under the weight of a completely ineffective supporting cast. Javed Jaffrey tries to raise a laugh or two in the garb of a very weird character but this comic attempt is a misfire. Arshad Warsi´s comic timing is ruined by a horrible performance from Tania Zaetta, who plays his wife. The script pretends that Jugal Hansraj’s character is an important one but he is not needed. The rest of the supporting actors act as if they are in a cartoon, they make faces and shout... This must be what they consider to be comedy. Only Abhishek Bachchan survives with an ounce of dignity and is genuinely hilarious in his cameo at the climax.

To add the cream to the pudding, the dialogues are so banal that when Saif Ali Khan mutters “Oh crap!” for the umpteenth time, you wonder if he is shouting at the writers.

To put it in a nutshell, this is yet another flick that makes a hoo-haa about a touchy subject but doesn’t tap into the full potential of the topic. My response: Salaam, Namaste and Goodbye!
   

Please get your eyes checked. This is RESHAM.

Yoyo the show was held on Saturday night. Who goes to College/Uni on a Saturday. Also none of the Universities have opened yet.

The song No bahar from the same album is also very similiar to a Naheed Akhtar song from the past.

Thanks yoyo I will watch it.

Kukki, heartkins is right that at least our pop artists have just copied English stuff but the Indians have copied from every where and especially from Pakistan.

Whats even more amazing that you don't want to admit this because for you its a huge embrassment copying from Pakistan.

The list of copied songs is huge and you Kukki you will just go mad at the wonderful job the Indian music composers are doing.

Just in recent weeks you have copied songs for films like Zehar, Chocolate, Ashiq Banaya Apne which have been mentioned above.

Heartkins the first song on your list has been copied in the Indian film "Sitam".

In the recent film "Nazar" the song "Mohabbat Zindagi hai" has been copied from a Pakistani film from the 1970s.

In another upcoming film called "Gumnaam" the song "Mohabbat say Ziada" has been copied from the Pakistani film Badnaam. The Pakistani version is "Barrey bay murrawat" and has been recently remixed also Tulsi.

Last year in the film Hawas the song "Tera libas ban kar" has been copied from the Reema and Shaan film "Nikkah.

The fact is I don't watch many Indian films and these songs which I have mentioned above I have just seen these by chance on B4U music.

If I were To watch Indian films on a regular basis then I probably would list so many other copied songs.

The fact is over the last 15 years you have copied so much Pakistani music. In the 1980s you strated coping our films and then from the late 1980s it was our music which you are still copying.

The real upturn in copying Pakistani music started thanks to Nadeem-Sharvan and the film Ashiqui and it followed by Saajan, Dil hai ka manta nahi, Sarak, Dil ka kiya kasoor, Kal ki awaz, Phool our Kante, Inteha pyar ki,etc. I can go on with the list of films which has Pakistani music.

Sharam karo Kukki.

Yoyo have you had any contact with Mubasher Luqman lately. Whats the latest on his film.

Kukki you might all the facilities, money, have an open culture, you are 10 times bigger then Pakistan and have have a population of over 1 Billion but one thing you don't have as rightly yoyo has pointed out is creative talent.

You should be ashamed of your self by copying Pakistani films and Pakistani music over the years. You are infact still at it. For you Pakistan does not even have a showbiz industry but you still copy it.

On the other hand you call yourself the biggest film industry in the world. The only thing bollywood has got to offer is glamour and sex.

You keep on saying that Bollywood is becoming global. You probably mean that the NRI's and South Asians overseas are watching your films and thats Bollywood going global.

Please grow up.

If the production of Urdu films go up and new people get in to the industry then the change will come. This has already started. Give it 2 to 3 years and then see.

Its great that the albuum is out at last. You can download it from www.pakstop.com/Pakmusic

Well Golimoro2 Geo in fact in their entertainment section have said that Reema's film is doing well at the box office in the UK. They even interviewed couple of people and one of them said they will love to see a new Pakistani film every day. The other person said the film was great with good music and story but did we have to use Indian singers. The Indian themselves are using our singers.

Valid point made by the second person.

It does not matter what Geo has said but the fact is that the business of the film in UK has not been great.

Agree with you Charizmatic and it is not just Laaj. The same thing even happended with Larki Punjaban. Initally some of the songs and the promos get processed in Pakistan but when you see the final print on the big screen its completely different.

Interesting choice of subject. I stil feel if Syed Noor can get his priorities right then he still is a great Director.

One thing which I cannot understand is when ever some director wants to make something different then why does he have to choose and hightlight the negative aspects of our society.

Without doubt this is a serious matter and should be highlighted as much as it could be. Infact this has been in the news in the last few months. This is probably where Syed Noor and Afzal Khan have got their inspiration from.

I would also like our media and especially the filmmakers to show the positive aspects of our society.

Making art films is not about just showing the depressing side of our society. There are numerous aspects of our society on which films can be made.

The balance should be right.

Yoyo film achi thee but I am not saying it is anything extra ordinary but still much better then YDAKH.

Production wise and technically film was very good. Nice choice of locations and not just the outdoor but also the indoor. Things like makeup, dress wardrobe, hairstlying wre all done tastefully. Photography was also great.

For me the music was the highlight of the film. We are really going to miss the great Amjad Bobby. The songs were well picturised.

Getting to the story of the film the half was fine with the introduction of the characters. The second half in which the real story stars and so does the suspense. I feel some of the emotions scenes do drag a bit in the second half and ending wasn't great.

Still overall a good effort by Reema considering it is her first film.

Looking at all the major Urdu films to come out in the last few years without doubt techically and production wise the improvement is visable. Music generally has been good.

The one area we need to improve greatly is in scripting.

Look Paki lion I saw the film the again yesterday and I can tell there is just a slight difference between the print of KTSK and No Entry which I have also seen.

All this thing regarding the print quality is just rubbish. It's just an excuse for not watching the film.

Well I was glad that atleast yesterday the Cinema hall was nearly full and people enjoyed the movie.

Tell your mate give the film atleast give the a try atleast once.

I also agree with both of you that the ending should have been better but except for that the film was great. What impressed alot of people was the suspense element.

Great review Honeynrrn and I am pleased that at last you got to see the film.

Well want to see KTSK tonight and I was more then surprised by the size of the crowd. Except for the front 2 or 3 rows the rest of the hall was nearly full.
I saw the film at UCI Trafford Centre Manchester.

Even no entry released with 34 prints had an average of £2600.

Alright yoyo tell then whats wrong.

Shahrukh yeah baat nahi hai. When a Pakistani film only comes here once every 2 years then what do expect. Do you have any idea when the next Pakistani is going to released in Cinemas in the UK ?. We need atleast 1 film to released here every month and then you watch the interest.