LAHORE: Renowned Lollywood lyricist Altaf Bajwa passed away on Sunday, leaving the showbiz and music world of Pakistan in mourning. The funeral prayers of the deceased were offered at the local Jamia ...

The glamorous world of cinema is not just about the faces plastered on billboards and hoardings. In its engine room toil hundreds of those whose efforts go unnoticed yet they continue to play a key ...

We’ve been hearing about Lollywood’s revival for a decade now. Filmmakers and actors have been struggling (read: whining and demanding) since ages. The ministry of culture has given Lollywood the ...

rominent Pakistani actor Saud, recently shared a critical pers-pective on the decline of Lollywood during an app-earance on Ahmed Ali Butt’s podcast. Speaking candidly, Saud attributed the industry’s ...

Pakistan's film industry is going through a crisis, with cinema audiences dwindling. In recent years dozens of cinema houses have closed or have been replaced by shopping centres. The budget we shoot ...

LAHORE, PAKISTAN — The Odeon Cinema’s creaky, ripped red vinyl seats are mostly empty except for a couple of back rows where a dozen Pakistani men sit slouched, their eyes half-open, legs slung over ...

First there was Hollywood. In the 1940s came Bollywood, the prolific Bombay film industry. But what about their lesser-known cousins Nollywood and Lollywood? “Nollywood” refers to the Nigerian film ...

Javed Sheikh is excited about the new breed of filmmakers as he discusses Na Maloom Afraad, the future of cinema and more importantly, trashes any notion of banning Bollywood films Interviewing a ...

LAHORE, Pakistan — Lahore’s Odeon cinema has seen better days. The Punjabi song-and-dance feature on the screen plays to rows of empty seats, the scratchy image and crackling soundtrack as old as the ...

With 412 films to his credit, veteran Pakistani writer, Nasir Adeeb, needs no introduction, especially after recently being awarded the Presidential Pride of Performance award for his contributions to ...

A new film shot entirely in Scotland has brought in talent from Pakistan and India to showcase the best of Bollywood and Lollywood movies, according to its director Zulfikar Sheikh. He said he had ...