Islamabad — Pakistan stars in "Zero Dark Thirty," from early scenes at a detention site to the dramatic closing minutes as Navy SEALs assault the hideout of Osama bin Laden. But the Academy Award-nominated film about the hunt for the al-Qaida leader has sparked a controversy here about its portrayal of the country, and it will likely not be shown on the local big screen anytime soon.
Partly, the film taps into national discomfort that bin Laden was found to be living for years near Pakistan's equivalent of West Point, and anger over the U.S. decision to enter its airspace and raid the compound without giving advance notice. Doubts about whether bin Laden was really hiding out for years in the city of Abbottabad are also common across Pakistan, a country where conspiracy theories often have more weight than fact.
But Pakistanis who have seen the film on DVD or...
Partly, the film taps into national discomfort that bin Laden was found to be living for years near Pakistan's equivalent of West Point, and anger over the U.S. decision to enter its airspace and raid the compound without giving advance notice. Doubts about whether bin Laden was really hiding out for years in the city of Abbottabad are also common across Pakistan, a country where conspiracy theories often have more weight than fact.
But Pakistanis who have seen the film on DVD or...
- 2/20/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
If there is one thing we know about actor Sanjay Dutt is that he is very particular about not wanting the women from his family to ever enter Bollywood. One of his most famous quotes is: “I am not encouraging my daughter to do films at all. It never happens with the Dutts. My sisters or my niece could have been in the movies too, but that is not the way my father raised us.”
Yet we now hear his niece, Nazia Hussain, is already taking a few steps towards establishing herself as an actress in the industry. She grew up watching Sanjay on screen, but says she wants to make it on her own in Bollywood. “Sanju chachu is someone whom I have grown up watching on screen. We both come from the same background, but my relation with him doesn’t really help as I am trying to...
Yet we now hear his niece, Nazia Hussain, is already taking a few steps towards establishing herself as an actress in the industry. She grew up watching Sanjay on screen, but says she wants to make it on her own in Bollywood. “Sanju chachu is someone whom I have grown up watching on screen. We both come from the same background, but my relation with him doesn’t really help as I am trying to...
- 7/6/2012
- by Charla Manohar
- Bollyspice
Sharmila Tagore.s transition from an acclaimed Bollywood actress to the matriarch of the former royal family of Bhopal was evident during her recent visit to this City of Lakes, where she settled family feuds and intervening in issues relating of the Haj.Sharmila, known as Begum Ayesha Sultana to people here, was in Bhopal for the first time since the death of her husband, former India cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, in September.She stayed here for four days Dec 27-30 and met Pataudi.s sister Saleha Sultan, 71, and Arjuman Ali Khan, husband of another sister Sabiha Sultan, 69, to settle their decades-old property dispute.After the death of Pataudi.s mother Begum Sajida Sultan, the last nawab begum of Bhopal, the cricketer was recognised as the head of the royal house. However, Saleha and Sabiha have been fighting for what they claim is their share of the ancestral heritage.
- 1/1/2012
- Filmicafe
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