Aamna Haider Isani

  • MNR dhol-rolls into London

    MNR dhol-rolls into London

    With stores in Gujranwala,Lahore and Karachi rocking to a proverbial dhol-roll, Mohsin Naveed Ranjha takes his Punjabi roots and plants them firmly...

  • Atif Aslam: On how to be or not to be

    Inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hilmand is a character that was written to be so complex that it would challenge the most seasoned of...

  • Building the bridge

    This is the first year that the Pride of Pakistan recognitions were being made. Over the course of the day one spotted ACCA topper Zara Naeem Dar,...

  • The Un-witching of Yasra Rizvi

    The Un-witching of Yasra Rizvi

    Yasra Rizvi has been acting for almost a decade now but while she’s delivered all sorts of characters in her career, it’s the most problematic...

  • Fashion: the ins and outs of 2021

    Fashion: the ins and outs of 2021

    The ongoing coronavirus crises has left fashion, amongst other affected industries, in desperate need of a reboot. There is need for mindfulness and...

  • The reemergence of responsible fashion

    The reemergence of responsible fashion

    It’s been a long and arduous summer, if not year, and it’s a year in which fashion – dependent on the luxury of time to create, places to go...

  • The man with many faces

    The man with many faces

    It’s been 22 years since Ahsan Khan first set foot on a set, kickstarting a career that has the trajectory of a guided missile. Countless TV plays...

  • Ushna Shah, uncensored

    Ushna Shah, uncensored

    The woman who walks in knows herself; she’s just wary of the fact that people don’t always see the same person she does. Hugely underrated,...

  • Culture, vulture & the right to ban

    Culture, vulture & the right to ban

    In a country like Pakistan, where poverty and illiteracy dominates the demographics, television is the most powerful medium for news and...

  • The ‘fair & foul’ of feminine content

    The ‘fair & foul’ of feminine content

    “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes”- Act IV, Scene I, Macbeth William Shakespeare may have written these lines in...

  • The rise of Dirilis: Ertugrul

    The rise of Dirilis: Ertugrul

    Dirilis: Ertugrul, the grand and larger than life TV series charting the life of Ertugrul and eventually his son Osman I, who rose as the founder of...

  • 35 years after Tanhaiyan

    35 years after Tanhaiyan

    What happened in thirty five years that we, if judged by what’s shown on television today, became a generation of nit-picking dimwits? The women,...

  • Television’s charismatic chameleon

    Days before the city went into strict lockdown to combat the deadly coronavirus, one had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Faysal Quraishi,...

  • Alif and its message

    Alif and its message

    The final episode of Umera Ahmed’s Alif wraps up a beautifully spun story of spirituality and love.

  • Sitara inspires girls to dream

    Sitara inspires girls to dream

    Released on March 8 as the first Pakistani Animated Film to be released and distributed by NETFLIX USA, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Sitara screens in...

  • Writing in role models

    Writing in role models

    As the world celebrated Women’s Day yesterday, we also saw women across Pakistan step out in support of the movement; the aim, as every year, was...

  • Speaking of the business of fashion

    Speaking of the business of fashion

    Zainab Chottani talks about the mechanics and economics of lawn campaigns and the added value celebrities bring to the business of fashion.

  • Khalil ur Rehman Qamar under fire for misogynistic remarks, again

    Khalil ur Rehman Qamar under fire for misogynistic remarks, again

    The man who has written TV serials like Pyarey Afzal, Sadqay Tumhare and Mere Paas Tum Ho, Khalil ur Rehman Qamar came under fire on Tuesday evening...

  • Karachi celebrates the power of music

    Karachi celebrates the power of music

    A Salt Arts presentation, the evening titled Nakaam Ishq Ke Naam featured ‘heartbreak heroes’ Strings and Shamoon Ismail together for the first...