In mediocre box-office Bollywood, Agneepath is like a luminescent shooting star. It retains some of the flavour of the cult Amitabh Bachchan starrer but transgresses from the original script only slightly to create maximum impact.
With 146 scheduled participants, including novelists, journalists, economists, educationalists, political analysts, artists and architects, it is clear that this year’s edition of the literary fest will be bigger than ever.
Samar Minallah Khan combines filmmaking and activism to challenge norms and make a real difference in the lives of Pakistan’s forgotten and marginalised.
The original tagline for the film is “If they each had half a brain, together they would still only have half a brain.” Still rings true for these two.
The book launch for a mammoth bio-epic on artist and social crusader Jimmy Engineer took place in Karachi recently, where fans and luminaries paid tribute to the innovative Pakistani.