Saba Qamar outshines everyone with her acting-skills in Sarmad Khoosat’s ‘Kamli’.

After spending some time on google, we can loosely summarize the meaning of the word ‘kamli’ as a word from Sanskrit language which translates to ‘blanket’. Whereas in Urdu, Punjabi and in Hindi language the word ‘kamli’ translates to ‘crazy girl’.

So before we reach Nueplex Cinema to watch ‘kamli’, we do have a fair bit of idea of what’s coming our way. Some of the story-line was shared with us before the release of the movie and according to it, ‘Kamli’ is a Pakistani drama-film directed by Sarmad Khoosat, who also has produced it with Kanwal Khoosat as co-producer under banner of Khoosat Films. The film features Saba Qamar, debutante Hamza Khawaja, Sania Saeed and Nimra Bucha in lead roles.

Let’s start off with some high-points of ‘Kamli’. The high-points of ‘Kamli’, outnumber low-points by a wide margin.

Firstly, the best part of ‘Kamli’, is Saba Qamar herself with her larger than life screen presence that comes with her beauty, charisma and her spot-on acting which includes her facial-expressions, body-language and dialogue-delivery. Her performance as Hina left most of the audience mesmerized. With Saba Qamar we can proudly say that we also have an actress who has it all from beauty, brain & skills. Both thumbs up for Saba Qamar on her performance in ‘Kamli’ as Hina.

Runner-up for me was Saad Sultan, who shone well with his excellent contribution as a music director. His compositions, which were equally well sung by our superstar Atif Aslam, talented Zeb Bangash, our legeng Reshma-ji along with new comers such as Sohail Shahzad, Zenab Fatima Sultan and Amna Rahi.

Third place was bagged by man of the moment, our lovely and very sweet Sarmad Khoosat as the director of ‘Kamli’. His stature as a director seems to be growing by every passing day. Whatever he directs (from movies to theatre), all of it ends up as folklore new comers in the industry. His name has now become synonymous with very unique & innovative ideas that are transformed to life for us to enjoy.

‘Kamli’, as the name suggests is a female centric drama-film that revolves (completely) around Saba Qamar and to some extent also Sania Saeed and Nimra Bucha. No real need to mention anything about male actors or characters. So if you are die-hard Saba Qamar fan, then ‘Kamli’ is exactly for you and if you prefer to watch formula-films then better stay home.

‘Kamli’ is all set to release nationwide in cinemas near you on 3^rd June 2022.

‘Superstar’ all set to hit cinema-screens this Eid-ul-Adha.

When stars collide! A Superstar is born and to witness it’s birth yesterday at an impressive event, trailer of one of the most anticipated Pakistani film of 2019 ‘Superstar’ was officially launched. This very impressive trailer launch event was hosted by Tipu Shareef who also has a guest appearance in the film.

‘Superstar’ a film by Momina & Duraid Productions, releasing this Eid-ul-Azha worldwide, stars Mahira Khan as Superstar with Bilal Ashraf on male leading role and is directed by Muhammad Ehtesham-ud-din, produced by Momina Duraid and distributed by HUM Films. Superstar is written by Mustafa Afridi who is also responsible screen-play and content. Music is by Azan Sami Khan. Khizer Idress director of photography is responsible for all the excellent cinematography.

Trailer seems impressive from direction, acting, cinematography, music and dances are spot on. As we get from the trailer entire film ‘Superstar’ seems to revolve around Mahira Khan who looks very pretty, acts well and to our amazement dances well too. I see Tamgha-e-Imtiaz coming from below punch-line.

“ham chottay gharoon kay actor hain issi liay

sab kay saath so kar hi kaam milta hay hammay”

Director of ‘Superstar’ Muhammad Ehtisham-ud-din said; “this is my first film as director and it was a throughout learning experience for me. Although I have directed on television but directing a film was altogether a new horizon for me”. He further said; “story of ‘Superstar’ is strong. Story starts the journey of any film and it’s the story of any films that gets the film going. Stardom of Mahira Khan and Bilal Ashraf didn’t affect the story line. We need flood of Pakistani movies for its revival. Few drops of rain won’t do much for revival of Pakistani films”.

Sultana Siddiqui President and founder of Hum Network Limited said ‘Superstar’ is always a Superstar and will surely shine above all and on competition coming this Eid-ul-Adha from other films releasing she said; “competition should take place, which is healthy and better for Pakistan’s film industry. We do have better content when compared against India, although we may lack on technological side, but we are better on content side. We will compete with better internally and after some externally also.”

Mahira Khan, who already is a superstar said; “all of us go through same pressures when in limelight and people who go through pressures with grace are actually the ones who are true superstars. We must not get bitter with more movies coming this Eid-ul-Adha”.

Bilal Ashraf male lead of ‘Superstar’ had extra loads of work for this film as he would be showing off  his six-packs / six-abs for which he trained very hard and praised his trainer Faisal. For this film Bilal Ashraf also took training on acting sessions from Sunik Shankar theatre actor from NAPA which according to him worked well for him. Bilal Ashraf said; “competition doesn’t take anything away from you. You just have to be consistent with your hard work.”

Apart from the lead pair, ‘Superstar’ boasts a stellar cast including the industry’s bigwigs Nadeem Baig, Javaid Sheikh, Marina Khan, Asma Abbas, Saife Hassan, Alizay Shah, Ali Kazmi and Waqar, and special appearances from Hania Amir, Saira Shehroz, Osman Khalid Butt, Kubra Khan and Mani.

veteran actor Nadeem Baig said; “competition is good and healthy for revival of Pakistan film industry but it should be aimed at appreciation not jealousy”. Nigah Hussain choreographer said; “dances are dependent is music and Azan Sami Khan has composed some very excellent music on which Mahira Khan has performed even better. She has never done danced any better”.

Azan Sami Khan music director said that he an emotional attachment to most of the songs, as some of them are from his earliest compositions which he composed when he started off as a musician. This movie has 10 songs and most of them would a treat for music lovers.

On concluding note, Duraid Qureshi Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Hum Network Limited thanked marketing team, public relations (PR) team, social media team and project team of HUM Network for their efforts on ‘Superstar’. Momina Duraid producer of ‘Superstar’ and CEO of Momina Duraid Productions also thanked scores of people for their special efforts for ‘Superstar’.

Superstar will be released on Eid-ul-Azha 2019, under the banner of HUM Films.