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 In recent years dozens of cinema houses have closed or have been replaced by shopping centres.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 ...

It’s almost as though every time one delves into into the subject of Lollywood, a new issue comes to light. This time, industry insiders are distressed over the fact that no new female actors have ...

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 ...

1990 Reema made her Lollywood debut in Javed Fazil’s Bulandi. Her on-screen pairing with Shaan and the film’s success paved the way for a spate of films starring the two in lead roles 1999 Samina ...

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 ...

Iman Ali's "Khuda Kay Liye" is the first Pakistani film India's shown in years. NEW DELHI, April 4, 2008 — -- Leaving the theater after watching the new movie, "Khuda Kay Liye," the first ...

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 ...