Being a film student (at NCA,) “life at the set” was not a new experience quite frankly. The fact that it was a film set was the bigger challenge. Living through a dream that every film maker sees ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — The first Pakistani film up for Oscar consideration in half a century faces 75 foreign-language rivals from around the world, many made with much larger budgets and far slicker ...

GOA — Directors Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi’s “Zinda Bhaag”, Pakistan’s contender for the foreign-language Academy Award race, has concluded distribution deals for the Canada, U.K. and Middle East. All ...

LONDON — Pakistan has chosen “Zinda Bhaag” as its contender for the foreign-language Academy Award race. The film is in the Urdu and Punjabi languages, produced by Mazhar Zaidi and written and ...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan has put forward a film for the Oscars for the first time in nearly 50 years as its struggling film industry shows signs of revival, officials said Monday. "The Pakistani ...

Young people looking to escape their surroundings have been a thematic staple of issue-conscious filmmakers around the world since Fellini’s seriocomic masterpiece “I Vitelloni.” Now Pakistani ...

MUMBAI: Much to the astonishment of the scores of Pakistani film and music artistes, veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah promptly went to the neighbouring land to finish a film titled Zinda Bhaag that ...

After having done Rafina, another movie coming my way was a long shot, since there are hardly any movies made in Pakistan, however early January an impromptu meeting with Mazhar Zaidi proved otherwise ...

Zinda Bhaag, which remains Pakistan’s most celebrated cinematic export in recent times, is led by a trio of unknown, inexperienced actors. The lead actor Khurram Pataras was a clothes salesman before ...