Friday Flix Movie Review: Snowden
Disappointed with the intelligence community, the top intelligence worker (contractor) Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) leaves the National Security Agency. He currently realizes that a virtual heap of information is being amassed to follow all types of advanced correspondence – from unfamiliar governments and terrorist gatherings, yet from ordinary Americans. At the point when Snowden chooses to release this arranged data, he turns into a swindler and a traitor to many, a saint to other people and an outlaw for the law!
Cast And Crew
Snowden’s (2016) cast includes Joseph Gordon-Lewitt as (Edward Snowden), Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Steinfield, Rhys Ifans, Nicholas Cage, Joely Richardson, and Ben Chaplin. The movie was directed by Oliver Stone and produced by Moritz Borman.
Plot
In 2013, Edward Snowden orchestrates a secret gathering in Hong Kong with documentarian Laura Poitras and writer Glenn Greenwald. They talk about delivering the ordered data in the previous’ belonging with respect to unlawful mass surveillance directed by the National Security Agency (NSA). Poitras later delivered a narrative about this meeting named Citizenfour, this thusly was utilized in a scene inside the film Snowden.
In 2004, Snowden is going through the essential training, having enrolled in the U.S. Armed forces with the goals of registering to the Special Forces. He in the end cracks his tibia and is educated that he will get a managerial release and that he may serve his nation in other ways.
Snowden goes after a job at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and in this manner goes through the screening cycle. At first, his responses to the screening questions are deficient; however, Deputy Director Corbin O’Brian chooses to take a risk on him, given the requests of such remarkable occasions. Snowden is then brought to “The Hill” where he is instructed and tried on cyberwarfare. He finds out about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which bypasses the Fourth Amendment privileges of U.S. residents by permitting warrant solicitations to be endorsed by a board of judges that were designated by the Chief Justice. Snowden and his companions are each entrusted with building an incognito interchanges network in their old hometown, erasing it, and afterward modifying it in eight hours or less, with five hours being the normal time taken. Snowden dazzles O’Brian when he finishes the activity in a short time around 38 minutes.
Then, Snowden meets Lindsay Mills on a dating site. The two bond, regardless of forcefully differentiating political belief systems. Snowden gets his first post abroad working with political cover in Geneva in 2007, taking Mills with him. He meets Gabriel Sol, who has sufficient involvement with electronic reconnaissance. Snowden starts scrutinizing the moral ramifications of their assignment. After his boss chooses to set up their objective on a DUI accusation to pressure data from him, Snowden leaves the CIA.
Snowden later takes a position with the NSA in Japan, at first under the misrepresentation of building a program that would permit the public authority to back up all basic information from the Middle East in a crisis, a program which he names “Epic Shelter.” Snowden learns of the practices the NSA and other U.S. government organizations are utilizing in Japan, however in many nations which the U.S. is as of now aligned with, which incorporate planting malware in various PCs that oversee government, framework, and monetary areas so that, if any partners betray the US, that nation can successfully be closed down in counter. The pressure-related to the work brings about the cut-off of his association with Mills, who moves back with her family in Maryland.
Snowden And NSA
Three months later, Snowden has left his post with the NSA and returned to Maryland where he and Mills resume their relationship and he takes a position consulting for the CIA. During a hunting trip, O’Brian reveals an operation in Oahu that revolves around counterattacking Chinese hackers. After Snowden is diagnosed with epilepsy, Mills agrees that he should join the operation for she believes the environment in Hawaii may be beneficial for his health. Upon beginning his new job in “The Tunnel”, an underground World War II bunker that has been re-purposed for massive electronic surveillance and SIGINT operations, Snowden learns that Epic Shelter is actually providing real-time data that assists U.S. drone pilots in launching lethal strikes against terror suspects in Pakistan.
Taking The Secrets!
In discussing the Rubik’s Cube scene in particular — which, in an uneven movie, is the best example of Stone’s attempt to give Snowden’s life a cinematic sheen — the director hinted at the difficulty that exists in this kind of filmmaking, which chooses to turn the complexity of human life into recognizable genre storytelling. Snowden ultimately becomes disillusioned with what he is a part of. It culminates in Snowden smuggling a microSD card into his office by way of a Rubik’s Cube and loading all relevant data. And while solving the Rubik’s cube he went smoothly from the airport security. While he gets scanned. He advises Mills to fly home to Maryland, after which he contacts Poitras and Greenwald to schedule the meeting. In the aftermath, with the help of MacAskill, Greenwald, and Poitras, Snowden is smuggled out of Hong Kong on a flight bound for Latin America by way of Russia. He is eventually granted asylum for three years, with Mills joining him at a later date. Snowden continues his activism.
We won’t be lying if we say that we are completely surprised that the real Edward Snowden has no such connections with the big giants’ world and as a mode of communication he uses Signal only
Snowden could be one way of describing Oliver Stone’s expertly made movie: a tense, taut drama with heart-stopping moments – Stone’s best since his 90s paranoia thrillers Nixon and JFK. So are you going to watch it tonight?
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Khalil Ur Rehman Qamar is an angry man – Shees Saji Gul
We have seen plenty of child stars in the past when we were growing up and according to this new era, where the stories and the drama have become majorly glamourous and storylines have evolved over time, actors be it child star of an adult one both have to compete to make its place in the industry. Similarly, in the midst of August 2019, a drama serial came and swept the audiences off their feet. For a layman, the story was gripping, the acting was above many things, despite some dialogues that stirred controversies among the audiences, and the drama became the super-hit of that year. The drama is Mere Pass Tum Ho, it is 2019. Pakistani romantic drama television series produced by Humayun Saeed and Shahzad Nasib under their production banner Six Sigma Plus. Directed by Nadeem Baig and written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar, the show stars Humayun Saeed, Ayeza Khan, and Adnan Siddiqui in lead roles. The show aired on ARY Digital from 17 August 2019 to 25 January 2020. And the child star is none other than Roomi.
With ahead-of-age dialogues and magnificent acting, Shees made a place in everyone’s hearts from the very first episode. This is Shees’s first major role, he has done ads and commercials and small appearances in movies like 7 Din Mohabbat In and more the past as well. But this time with us he is just Shees sharing anecdotes! Let’s find out more about him…
The Rare Experience
While sharing with RJ Sara, he shared that he never thought he would be this of a big child star, and this is a rare experience very new and very beautiful for him. Coming from a background of a talented family with a dad being a one-of-the-kind type of story writer, Shees has a knack for sketching and painting, well artistry runs in his blood. So he felt lucky to have learned most of it from his father Saji Gul. While sharing about his learning experience, he shared that hard work and patience are two key elements that got him running towards this journey, I thought it was easy at first, but it was easy at all. Hard work was necessary and it gave me the fruit! He shared how one day they were on their terrace and his father got a call from his friend and there, he was offered this drama, since his father was good friends with them that is the reason Shees trusted the team and acted for them.
Difficult Shooting
As a kid he faced challenges while shooting as well, he shared how hard it is for him to shoot mainly in the school scenes, when there was flaming hot and they have to shoot regardless of the scene requirements he said, “Garmi lagti thi but hum karleyte they.”
Kind Hearted On Set People
While talking about his journey with Director Nadeem Baig, Ayeza Danish Taimoor, and Humayun Saeed, Shees repeatedly said that they all were very sweet and kind and always supported him throughout his scenes, they all made this easier for him. Shees said that his parents are “Usually home during shoots” and he would be comfortable with the team. And winning the LUX STYLE AWARDS for this drama is a big achievement for him! He is beyond thankful for everything!
During the interview, he evidently showed his love for pets and animals in general. While talking about his “Secrets,” he said “my mom wouldn’t know and I and baba got a stray cat in our home, to play and to feed her. My mom doesn’t like them but baba still brought the cat for me anyway.”
Well everyone has a best friend, doesn’t it? But Shees’s best friend has gone abroad, which during the interview he shared that he missed him a lot, while talking about bullying and his pre and post-shoot days he disclosed that kids casually bully him sometimes at school but after my drama, they stopped doing that and also I always ignore them because this should be the first reaction of everyone to stop the negativity.
Extracurricular Activities
The thing that became the highlight for us that how Shees doesn’t watch conventional cartoons of his age, instead he is very much into sci-fi and watches series like Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, and Haunting of the Hill House. To add much of our surprise we know that Shees is an observant kid, and he liked to observe things from the surroundings and absorb the positivity into himself, and he said that he likes being himself acting is what big people do. While sharing about one word for everyone, he specifically said that Khalil Ur Rehman always looks very angry, he should smile more because he doesn’t smile at all, but he is a good mentor…
You can watch the whole interview below
RJ Sara Baloch hosts Chill Karo on SAMAA FM 107.4 every Saturday and Sunday, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
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We Have Been Calling Anne Hathaway’s Name Wrong This Whole Time!
What if you know someday that someone far far away from you has been calling your name wrong this whole time, well what if only you know that people have been calling your name wrong and you don’t really do anything to correct it? Strange, yes it is! I completely agree how pissed one might be due to listening to your name wrong this whole time but can’t really do anything about this? Well, Anne Hathaway is right away pissed due to the same reason! Let’s find out why?
Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. She is the beneficiary of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was one of the most generously paid actors on the planet in 2015. Her movies have procured over $6.8 billion around the world, and she showed up in the Forbes Celebrity 100 rundown in 2009. Hathaway moved on from Millburn High School in New Jersey, where she acted in a few plays. In her youth, she was projected in the TV arrangement Get Real (1999–2000) and made her achievement as the hero in her introduction film, the Disney satire The Princess Diaries. Hathaway made a progress to grown-up parts with the 2005 shows Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. The parody film The Devil Wears Prada, wherein she played an associate to a Fashion Magazine Editor, was her greatest business accomplishment to that point. She played a recuperating alcoholic in the dramatization Rachel Getting Married, which acquired her assignment for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She proceeded to star in the monetarily successfully emotional movies Bride Wars, Valentine’s Day, Love and Other Drugs, and the dream film Alice in Wonderland.
In 2012, Hathaway featured as Selina Kyle in her most highest-grossing film The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment in The Dark Knight trilogy. Additionally that year, she played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in the musical romantic drama Les Misérables, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She at that point played a researcher in the sci-fi film Interstellar, the proprietor of an online design website in the parody The Intern, a haughty entertainer in the heist film Ocean’s 8, and a malevolent witch in the dream satire The Witches. Hathaway has additionally won a Primetime Emmy Award for her voice job in the sitcom The Simpsons, sung for soundtracks, showed up in front of an audience, and facilitated occasions.
Anne Hathaway’s Name Tragedy!
During an appearance on ‘The Tonight Show’ starring Jimmy Fallon, the Les Miserables actor claimed that her name was not what the entire world had been using throughout her career span.
“Can we talk about my name for a second,” she replied to Jimmy Fallon who was asking if he should call her Anne, aka the name everyone knows her by, or Annie. “Let’s spill the tea,” she added. The actor then told a story of filming a commercial when she was just 14 years old and need to get a SAG card.
“They asked me, ‘What do you want your name to be?’ And I’m like, ‘Well, it should be my name. My name’s Anne Hathaway,’” she said. “And so that seemed like the right choice, but it never occurred to me that for the rest of my life people would call me Anne.”
Hathaway prefers Annie. Wow! She’d probably even prefer people call her by her “Princess Diaries” character, “Mia Thermopolis,” if someone would ask me. She says the only person who actually calls her Anne is her mom, and that’s only when she’s angry.
“Every time I step out in public and someone calls my name, I think they’re gonna yell at me,” she said. “The truth is nobody’s comfortable calling me Anne, ever. It doesn’t fit—I’m an Annie. People call me ‘Ms. H,’ people call me ‘Hath,’ so feel free to call me anything but Anne,” she added.
“Call me anything but Anne,” she told Fallon.
Well, don’t worry Anne, we will call you Annie from now on. Anything but Anne.
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Women Empower Wednesday: A Remarkable Inspiration Malala Yousafzai
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The Stereotype of Male and Female Education
Obtaining a higher level of education is not an easy path. In Pakistan, women are not allowed to work outside of their homes, making it very difficult to get a job. Furthermore, even after jumping over all the obstacles. Once a woman obtains a higher education, she has to deal with gender discrimination in the workplace. Many women will find that it is not easy to find well-paid or managerial jobs even with a college degree. But out of all these women, one has still clawed her way out. She made education possible for many of the women. That strong girl is, Malala Yousafzai!
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for women’s schooling and education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known as a basic human rights advocate. Particularly the education of women and kids in her local Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan. Where the nearby Pakistani Taliban prohibited young girls from going to school. Her advocacy has developed into a global developmental movement. Previous Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, has become “the most prominent citizen” of the nation.
The daughter of educationist Ziauddin, Yousafzai, Malala was destined to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the area. Considering Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her good examples, she was especially motivated by her dad’s thoughts and philanthropic work.
In mid-2009, when she was just 11 years old. Malala composed a blog under a pen name the BBC Urdu itemizing her life during the Pakistani Taliban control of Swat. The accompanying summer, columnist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the locale. She rose to prominence, giving interviews on paper and on TV. Desmond Tutu also designated her for International Children Peace Prize.
Malala Yousafzai Shot by Taliban
On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District. Pakistani Taliban shot Malala and her two friends. They fled the scene afterward. That was a reprisal for her activism. She was shot in the head was admitted to Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology. Her condition later improved enough for her to be moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK.
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The endeavor in her life started a worldwide outpouring of help and support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle announced in January 2013 that Yousafzai may have become “the most acclaimed teenager in the world”. Weeks after the attempted murder, Muslim clerics in Pakistan gave a fatwā against the individuals who attempted to kill her.
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Achievements of Malala
Following her recovery, Yousafzai turned into a prominent activist for the right to education. She becomes the author of ‘I Am Malala’ which turns into a worldwide bestseller. She also established the Malala Fund in 2013 with Shiza Shahid. Malala is also the beneficiary of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize.
In 2014, she was the co-beneficiary of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside Kailash Satyarthi of India. At the young age of 17 at that point, she was the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2015, Malala shows up in the Oscar-shortlisted documentary ‘He Named Me Malala.’ Issues of Time magazine highlighted her as perhaps the most powerful and influential person all around the world.
Canada grants her Canadian citizenship in 2017 and she becomes the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada.
Yousafzai attended Edgbaston High School in England from 2013 to 2017 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford, where she was an undergrad understudy of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 2020.
The Malala Yousafzai Scholarship
Pakistani women can get more scholarships under new merit and needs-based programs. The United States Congress passed a bill named after Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai. In March 2020 the House of Representatives passed the Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act The US Senate adopted it by a voice vote recently, according to the congress website. President Donald Trump will sign it to law. The current bill requires the United States Agency for International Development to award at least 50% of scholarships to Pakistani women, across a range of academic disciplines and in accordance with existing eligibility criteria.
Malala says, “With more than 130 million girls out of school today, there is more work to be done. I hope you will join my fight for education and equality. Together, we can create a world where all girls can learn and lead.”
Malala Yousufzai is surely a gem for Pakistan and a recognized figure for the world!
FAQ
Malala is a Pakistani education activist who was shot by Taliban and became the youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize after surviving. From a young age Malala is famous for speaking in favour of young women and girls for highlighting the hurdles Taliban created.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, the former Pakistan Taliban spokesman was responsible for the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in 2012. Taliban took responsibility after the attack. She was going to school for her examination when she and two of her friends got attacked by gunmen and shot her.
While seated on a school bus heading home, Malala was talking to her friends about her exam, when two members of the Taliban stopped the bus. A young bearded Talib asked for Malala by name, and fired three shots at her.
After the incident, Malala was airlifted to a military hospital in Peshawar, where doctors operated after swelling developed in the left portion of her brain, which was damaged by the bullet when it passed through her head. Doctors said that she had a 70% chance of survival.
The youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize considers herself extremely lucky to be the voice of the 60 million girls who are deprived of basic education. Since Malala loves education, she absolutely loves school!
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WhatsApp Headquarters is trending on Twitter Pakistan!
After the massive Blackout Tweet Parade, imagine something which is trending on Twitter that too is related to our own privacy breach. Pakistani memers mafia has taken a fun take over the whole “data breach terms and conditions policy” and turn the whole thing into a massive giggle-bunch.
What could have been expected? Pakistani memers and generally audience tackle everything very normally and do not make it a big-big deal.
Twitter is trending with the hashtag “WhatsApp Headquarters.” It is a fun take on how Whatsapp will react to lame things Pakistani do on a regular basis on Whatsapp! Let’s have a look at what this Twitter trend is all about!
Some people have been seen to posting to boycott WhatsApp on WhatsApp stories
From love life crisis to general student problems, WhatsApp Headquarters will now be seeing some extra lame conversations dragged from Pakistani accounts!
And adding some subtle political touch to it.
Someone just tell them IT’S ALL CONNECTED!
To add some more fun, some people have started sharing Signal app’s link on WhatsApp!
Well, whatever this whole scenario is, we really hope that our data will be safe whichever technology we utilize, and meanwhile, people are making their shift, let us enjoy these memes! Which are funny and at the same time entertaining!
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Supreme Court Admits Meesha Shafi’s Plea Against LHC Decision!
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday acknowledged for preliminary hearing vocalist Meesha Shafi’s request documented against the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) request in the sexual harassment case against the artist Ali Zafar.
The Shafi-Zafar Harassment Case, history Since 2018
The case first emerged during the summers of 2018, when a few of Meesha Shafi’s Tweets surfaced on her Social Media account and she Tweeted against the singer and fellow artist Ali Zafar, on sexual harassment.
Meesha Shafi’s Stance
This stirred a movement of people coming out with their own similar experiences. According to Meesha Shafi, she stated in the court that, “First time it was at the house of the plaintiff’s father-in-law where he (Ali) sexually harassed me,” Ms. Shafi said in her testimony before the court during the hearing of a defamation suit against her, filed by Zafar. She submitted the documents under the court which includes duplicates of her tweets through which she detailed the occurrences of the inappropriate behavior and sexual misconduct as the offended party. As indicated by her assertion, she was alongside her husband when she visited the place of the plaintiff’s father-in-law for a get-together. She said Zafar groped her inside the house while her husband was outside with his friends.
The vocalist further said she revealed to her husband about the occurrence, nonetheless, prevented him from any prompt response. “I was scared and confused. I didn’t need any fight,” she stated, adding that her husband is a trained boxer. About the supposed incident that happened during a jam session, Ms. Shafi said she stayed under trauma for a while after the occurrence. As per Meesha Shafi, she had disclosed to her manager about the occurrence and furthermore the agreement manager of Pepsi about declining to keep working with the plaintiff. She said it was not a planned move to make public the incidents of sexual harassment. “I spoke for my protection only,” she added.
Ali Zafar’s Stance
On the other hand, in November 2018, Ali Zafar had filed a defamation complaint with the FIA cybercrime wing, alleging that many social media accounts were posting “threats and defamatory material” against him. He provided details of some Twitter and Facebook accounts to support his claim. Zafar had alleged that many fake accounts had been created to launch a campaign against him weeks prior to Meesha Shafi’s allegation of sexual harassment against him in April 2018. He stated that most of these fake accounts were allegedly connected to Ms. Shafi. A Twitter account @nehasaigol1, which posted 3,000 defamatory tweets against me and my family only in one year, [was] created 50 days before Meesha’s allegations of sexual harassment,” the singer-actor told FIA with documentary ‘evidence.’
Meesha had appeared before the FIA with her team of lawyers in December 2019. The FIR states that Shafi failed to produce any witness in favor of her allegation (of sexual harassment) against Ali Zafar. Furthermore, Leena Ghani was also summoned, but she did not turn up and sent her written statement which was not found satisfactory.
“She [Ms. Ghani] was found involved in publicly posting defamatory content against the complainant on Twitter on April 19, 2018. Fariha Ayub and Maham Javaid were also summoned four times but they did not turn up to join the inquiry. Iffat Omar appeared but did not record her statement with the request to give her time, but despite repeated requests failed to record her statement,” the FIR says. Similarly, Ali Gul Pir and Humna Raza also failed to provide any satisfactory statement for the allegations against Ali Zafar.
On the basis of untrue and baseless allegations of sexual harassment against, Ali Zafar on Twitter. Ms. Shafi, according to the court was liable to issue an apology based on the tweet within 14 days after the court hearing in October, and also was issued a decree directing her to pay 1billion as damages to Ali Zafar for the humiliation and pain he faced throughout.
The Now Accepted Plea from Supreme Court For Meesha Shafi
A new ray of hope has emerged as the Supreme Court accepted the plea under laws and judiciary. A three-judge bench of the apex court led by Justice Mushir Alam recently issued notices to respondents Ali Zafar and Advocate General Punjab. Previously, the plea was rejected on technical grounds, stating that as Shafi and Zafar “did not have an employer-employee relationship”, the case could not be heard [in that forum]. The complaint was filed under the Protection Against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2010.
Shafi had then requested against the choice before the Punjab lead representative, whom her lawful group considered the skilled position to survey any choices made by the supervisor. Nonetheless, the Punjab lead representative additionally maintained the supervisor’s choice in July 2018, excusing her solicitation on specialized grounds. Shafi consequently moved toward the LHC to challenge the lead representative’s choice, where the LHC additionally embraced the ombudsperson’s choice.
During the present procedures, Shafi’s counsel told the court, “The [Lahore] High Court decided that Meesha Shafi was not an employee.” “Students at educational institutions are also harassed, and they are not employed by educational institutions. Is harassment not to be prosecuted?” he contended.
Women Rights activist Nighat Dad also tweeted,
The hearing was adjourned for an indefinite period for now. Shafi wrote on Twitter on January 10, “Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of Pakistan hears my appeal on whether I, a ‘self-employed person’ have a right, as per the law, to be heard after being harassed and therefore expect justice on merit as an equal citizen. If ruled in my favor, this will be a landmark judgment in the history of Pakistan, determining those that are self-employed, as having the same rights to complain and seek justice as any other.”
We are as hopeful as Meesha Shafi now that how justice is going to prevail, what would the results be, and in whose favor.
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Ghar Aa is not just a song, it’s a motivational ode to myself – Tausif Ali Khan
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself” Walter Anderson.
Losing somebody you love through changes, for example, passing, separation, divorce, relationship end, or unsuccessful labor, is a difficult and heartbreaking experience. The experience of misfortune is a daily existence challenge that happens to us all and for the vast majority of us, it happens more than once in our lives.
But to come out of it with courage is what makes us the bravest, time has the power to heal people in different ways, it makes people realize that they can survive. Survival has a lot of meanings, to be able to take the pain out of yourself and replace it with an activity that you think will be able to handle it and ease yourself with. Recently SAMAA FM’s RJ Azhar Ali got a chance to have a chat with a person whose voice has so much pain and yet so melodious. Tausif Ali Khan along with his team talked with Azhar Ali, about his newest single and much more.
He (Tausif Ali Khan) began by talking about his journey as an artist and where was he for about 5 years now, he revealed that his wife had passed away and that made his life almost shattered. He was exiled in his own home with thoughts and had no motivation for anything. After a rough patch of him dealing with depression, music was the only thing that kept him going and after a while, he decided to come back to the industry and started working for the song “Ghar Aa.”
While talking about the song he mentioned, how “Ghar Aa” is not just a song but a motivational sad ode for the people who have lost love in their lives through different means and since he himself has suffered something great. His lyrics depict the exact feeling for that great loss.
While talking about the music, Tausif shared how difficult was for him to make this happen but he did it anyway! And he is proud of it. He included the line “The Comeback is Always Better than the Setback” as an opener to his song which opened a thoughtful insight in me as a person that you cannot lose hope! Not even in the darkest of the times.
While talking to the main lead of the song video, Maria Siddiqui and Faraz Mustafa, Maria shared how wonderful and overwhelmingly beautiful the whole experience was for her. She commendably appreciated the fact that Tausif is an amazing artist and when she listened to the song for the first with an offer to act in the music video before her, she was mesmerized by his voice and the lyrics created magic, she couldn’t absorb the whole song in one goes. Which is a true thing the song has a beautiful feel to it the lyrics “Sooni pari hain humri rattiyaan, aaja sajan ghar aa” were enough to make you teary…
Maria further shared that this song came as a miracle in her life as she was approached by a maestro himself and she reiterated that songs and music video these days don’t deliver the way they should be but the music video has an antique aesthetic feeling and the vintage element added extra beauty, she added that I learned a great deal from him and I will always be thankful that he has given her the exposure of working with Raj Gupta (the producer of the Punjab World Records) was a great learning curve.
Faraz Mustafa though is a new face for the industry, people were not too familiar with his name or his face before, but his entry with this song has been a amazing entry. He mentioned how he has never been to Karachi and then again he was approached by one of his friends (in reference with Tausif) and he was completely blown by how melodious the song was even in the raw form. He immediately accepted the offer and flew to Karachi. His expressions in the music video are exceptionally good and impacting!
Azhar Ali continued with how if you can feel the lyrics in the first place you can easily relate to the song. The composition is one thing but melody and vocals can add extra soul to the song. The best part is that these type of compositions and singing is keeping the “Qawaali soul” alive in our industry which is much needed considering the Qawali culture is acceptable not just in our industry but the whole world.
You can listen to the full interview below:
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Friday Flix Movie Review: The Butterfly Effect
Is Time Travelling Possible?
We are starting today’s review with an interesting question, is Time Travelling possible? We as a whole journey in time! We travel one year in time between birthday events, for instance. What’s more, we are for the most part going in time at around a similar speed: 1 second out of every second. Space telescopes from NASA additionally give us an approach to thinking back as expected. Telescopes help us see stars and systems that are far away. It requires some investment for the light from distant cosmic systems to contact us. In this way, when we investigate the sky with a telescope, we are seeing what that star and world resembled extremely quite a while past. Be that as it may, when we think about the expression “time travel,” we are typically considering voyaging quicker than 1 second out of every second. That sort of time travel seems like something you’d just find in films or sci-fi books. Could it be genuine or real? Science says yes!
Over 100 years back, a well-known researcher and scientist named Albert Einstein thought of an idea regarding how time functions. He called it relativity. This hypothesis says that existence is connected together which is time and space. Einstein likewise said our universe has a speed limit: nothing can travel quicker than the speed of light (186,000 miles for each second). I’m not catching this’ meaning for time travel? All things considered, as per this hypothesis, the quicker you travel, the more slowly you experience time. Researchers have done a few examinations to show that this is valid. For instance, there was an experiment that used two clocks set precisely at the same time. One clock stayed on Earth, while the other flew in a plane (going in a similar bearing Earth rotates). After the plane flew the world over, scientists looked at the two tickers. The clock on the quick plane was somewhat behind the clock on the ground. Along these lines, the clock on the plane was voyaging somewhat slower in time than 1 second of the second.
We can’t use a time machine to travel many years into the past or future. That sort of time travel just occurs in books and films. And with these similar lines, the movie we have is The Butterfly Effect!
Cast And Crew
The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, the title refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical situation that illustrates how small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time. The cast includes Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Logan Lerman, John Patrick Amedori, Irene Gorovaia, Kevin G. Schmidt, Jesse James, Ethan Suplee, and Melora Walters.
Plot
Chaos Theoryinstructs us that little occasions can have colossal results. Even the initial movie title advises us that a butterfly fluttering its wings in Asia could bring about a typhoon most of the way around the globe. Truly, although given the number of butterflies and the assurance with which they fold their little wings, isn’t it remarkable how infrequently that occurs? “The Butterfly Effect” applies this hypothesis to the daily routines of four youngsters whose early lives are damaged by misfortune. At the point when one of them finds that he can return as expected and make transforms, he attempts to improve the present by adjusting the past.
Evan Treborn (Kutcher) is a 20-year old undergrad with a greater bundle of psychological weight than most youthful Americans. Since age seven, he has been encountering blackouts at moments of high emotional stress, for example, when a companion of the family attacked him, or when he and a few companions got associated with a prank-gone-bad. Seven years later, while entertaining a girl in his dorm room, Evan discovers that, by focusing on the words in a diary he formed while growing up, he can transport himself back in time and re-live certain occasions. Some of the time, he can make changes; at times he can’t. At the point when a cherished companion, Kayleigh Miller (Amy Smart), ends it all due to something Evan does, he gets fixated on improving her life. What’s more, when he does, he discovers that he may have been exceptional off not interfering with the complex formula of cause-and-effect.
His time-traveling episodes represent the successive blackouts he encountered as a child since those are simply the moments that his grown-up involved his conscious, for example, his father choked him when he understood that Evan shared his time-traveling affliction. Nonetheless, there are consequences to his changed decisions that drastically adjust his current life. For instance, his own timetable prompts alternative fates wherein he gets himself, differently, as a student in a fraternity, a prisoner detained for killing Tommy, and a double amputee. Ultimately, he understands that, despite the fact that his expectations to fix the past are acceptable, his activities have unanticipated results, in which possibly he or if nothing else one of his companions doesn’t benefit.
The Realization of Self!
Additionally, the assimilation of many years of new recollections from the memories timelines causes Evan to harm his mind and serious nosebleeds. He eventually reaches the conclusion that he and his friends probably won’t have great fates as long as he continues to modify the past, and he understands that he is harming them instead of making a difference. Evan travels back one final time to the day he first met Kayleigh as a kid. He deliberately upsets her so that she and Tommy will choose to live with their mother, in a different neighborhood area, instead of with their father when they got separated. As a result, they are not exposed to a destructive upbringing, do not grow up with Evan, and go on to have happy, successful lives. Evan stirs in a dorm room, where Lenny is his roommate. As a test, he asks where Kayleigh is, to which Lenny reacts “Who’s Kayleigh?”. Realizing that everything is okay this time, Evan consumes his diaries and recordings to try not to modify the course of events until the end of time.
Eight years later in New York City, Evan exits an office building and passes by Kayleigh on the street. Though a brief look of recognition passes over both of their faces, they both decide to keep walking.
The movie is a very nice take on time travel and Kutcher’s acting has surely been one of the very good elements about the movie, though the very constant and back and forth time spin hurt the eyes overall it was a good watch, so were you still finding a movie for the weekend? Give it a try!
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Tajjali Lounge aiming to take qawwali to new heights!
Qawwali is a type of Sufi Islamic reverential singing, starting from the Indian subcontinent, and quite famous in the Punjab and Sindh locales of Pakistan; in Hyderabad, Delhi, and different pieces of India, particularly North India; just as the Dhaka and Chittagong Divisions of Bangladesh.
Initially performed at Sufi altars or “dargahs” all through South Asia, it acquired standard prominence and a global crowd in the late twentieth century. Qawwali music got global openness through crafted by Aziz Mian, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Sabri Brothers generally because of a few deliveries on the Real World mark, trailed by live appearances at WOMAD celebrations. Other celebrated Qawwali vocalists incorporate Fareed Ayyaz and Abu Muhammad, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Badar Miandad, Rizwan, and Moazzam Duo, the late Amjad Sabri, Wadali Brothers, Nizami Bandhu, and Bahauddin Qutbuddin. Most current Qawwali artists including Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Fareed Ayyaz and Abu Muhammad have a place with the acclaimed ‘Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana’ school of Qawwali, which was situated in Delhi.
Within the modern world, Qawwali is making new heights and everything has getting transformed and with this transformation our RJ Sara Baloch has discovered someone that has the potential of sweeping many hearts off, especially the people who love Qawwali and associate themselves as a Sufi soul! That discovery is “Tajalli Lounge.”
About the Duo of Udan Khatola
Udan Khatola is a Sufi Rock Band from Pakistan. The duo consists of Farhan Shah & Shahid Rehman. The band has been together since 2013 and also runs an audio production studio in Karachi. The duo has also composed and produced music for Film, Drama, TVC & documentaries, and for various popular artists. Farhan is now based in Australia while Shahid is in Karachi, now the duo has been creating music virtually and have been touring and performing live music in and out of Pakistan for the last five years.
With a collaboration project, Farhan and Shahid are currently working on the “Adelaide-Karachi Original Audio Collaboration Project” supported by the Music development office of South Australia. They recently received UNESCO (United Nations Education, Science & Cultural Organisation) city of music awards for best International Collaboration award for their song “Maula Ya Ali” at South Australian Music Awards. The second song of the project name “Saavan” where they have featured classical maestro Ustaad Islamuddin Meer has received international appreciation, where they teamed up with Jollygul.com for presentations.
Previous Highlights of band Song “Manqabat ” for the film “Zindagi Kitnee Haseen Hai” became an instant claim to fame for the duo. Original Music Score for Australian Film” CHARON” by Scutti Productions which was part of the “Adelaide 48 Hour film project”. They won the Best Musical Score Award.
A New Take on Qawwali with Tajjali Lounge
The idea of “Tajalli Lounge” came into the discussion with Irfan Ali and Jollygul while they were producing their third track “Haseebi”, and instead of a single collaboration they decided to call it a series where they are aiming to feature establish well known Sufi Maestroes of South Asia, along with national and Internationally recognized musicians from different parts of the world, and that’s not all at the same time this will feature exceptionally talented young emerging artist to collaborate and experience music with establishing masters.
The remaining tracks for the collaboration project are under production including the main track of the recording project. They are also producing more episodes for Tajalli Lounge and Maqam Station (which is another musical initiative to produce original songs and videos for emerging artists)
The singer Farhan Shah has many more plans for Tajalli Lounge, but according to his recent exclusive statement, he shared with RJ Sara Baloch that his music and videos along with the collaboration with classical maestros who have spent their entire life with mastering Qawwali and providing us the content which will make a musical difference in Pakistani society under the most-loved Genre.
Farhan Shah is excited about this project and shared that, “Our music and videos will be organic. You won’t see zillion views in 3 days. We would rather spend that money to feature a talented musician or Singer.” Farhan Shah also shared that Tajalli Lounge’s has already introduced “Haseebi,” and with an infusion of rock and other new instruments “Haseebi is a prayer in a form of qawwali in the praise of the divine, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.” The lyrics are powerful as ever with “Tu mairay Mustafa ki shan hai Maula, main jab bhi doobta hun tu bachata hai, mein jab bhi larkharata hun tu uthata hai.” (You are the pride of my Mustafa, you come to my rescue whenever I drown, you life me up whenever I fall)
This is a fresh take on Qawwali and we really hope that Tajjali Lounge will reach the heights of Sufism with new innovation in Music!
RJ Sara Baloch hosts Chill Karo on SAMAA FM 107.4 every Saturday and Sunday, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
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Kumail Nanjiani faces body shaming as his new buff-body sparks steroids Intake
Hollywood star Kumail Nanjiani left his fans tongue-tied last year with his super transformation making headlines across the world. But when the “Eternals” actor dropped a New Year’s post over the weekend, the internet was suddenly divided.
Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and podcaster primarily known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. He was then seen in the comedy film The Big Sick. He also co-wrote the movie with his wife Emily V. Gordon, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Nanjiani also has contributed his voice for Prismo on the animated series “Adventure Time” and starred in the TNT series Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders. His contribution towards comedy was shown when he co-hosted the Comedy Central show The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. Nanjiani also played various roles on the comedy series Portlandia. He also starred in the action film Stuber.
Body Shaming And Steroids
The comments on Twitter and Instagram have sparked after Kumail update his New Year’s picture with his wife Emily.
Many mocked his ripped physique, commenting that he was on steroids. Others felt his head had changed shape, requesting him to keep away from “the medicines Hollywood was making him take.” On Twitter, a conversation of the reposted picture incited a blast of sentiments about Nanjiani’s appearance, with numerous users asserting (unjustifiably) that he was taking steroids to accomplish the look. Large numbers of these Twitterati-analysts also asserted that the studios weren’t right to “power” the actor to experience the change in any case.
Reps for Nanjiani didn’t quickly react to The Post’s solicitation for input about the online discussion. Nonetheless, the actor and screenwriter have recently been straightforward about his working out excursion and routine and throughout his journey he has been pretty vocal and all-over-instagram about this.
“I never thought I’d be one of those people who would post a thirsty shirtless, but I’ve worked way too hard for way too long so here we are. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I found out a year ago I was going to be in Marvel’s Eternals and decided I wanted to transform how I looked. I would not have been able to do this if I didn’t have a full year with the best trainers and nutritionists paid for by the biggest studio in the world. I’m glad I look like this, but I also understand why I never did before. It would have been impossible without these resources and time. So big thanks to @grantrobertsfit who started working with me at the beginning of the year and made me understand true physical pain for months and months. Then, once we started shooting, a massive thanks to @davidhigginslondon and his team (@ellispartridge, @thebeardypt, @tomcheesemanfitness) for training me almost every day and making me strong, limber and injury free.
I can almost touch my toes now. (And thank you for forcing me to do cheat meals David.) Matthews Street Catering for their delicious and healthy meals. And finally, the biggest thanks goes to @emilyvgordon for putting up with me complaining and talking about only working out and dieting for the last year. I promise I’ll be interesting again someday.”
People also have been coming for support of Kumail Nanjiani on Twitter as well, many came to his defense, pointing out a double standard people seemed to have for Nanjiani, who is Pakistani-American, and the reception to muscular transformations that white actors have made for superhero movies. Some people shared the hypocrisy of people and the industry with,
Prior, in March, when Kumail had dazed the world when he uncovered his new look for The Eternals, he had uncovered that Bollywood’s Greek God, Hrithik Roshan, was a major motivation in his wellness venture and fitness.
In Men’s Health’s April main story, the entertainer said that he needed Kingo to be Bollywood Bruce Willis and Marvel’s John McClane. “I was like, ‘How can a character crack wise but still have tension, and not make it fee; like you’re making fun of the whole thing?'” Nanjiani had said. This time, he had a Bollywood inspiration. “I went to my trainer and said, ‘I want to look like this guy’,” he said. “This guy” was Hrithik.
The actual change wasn’t simple. Nanjiani battled with body dysmorphia after another eating routine and exercise system gave him an altogether new physical make-up. “I would prefer not to limit individuals who truly have crippling body issues. I don’t have that. In any case, I began getting someone dysmorphia. I’d look in the mirror and I’d see my abs – and when I looked once more, they would blur. I would just see the flaws,” he said. “At the point when I saw that response was the point at which I resembled, ‘OK, I obviously don’t perceive what’s really there. It’s something I’m attempting to know about and be better at, in light of the fact that that is not a decent method to be. You need to be simple on yourself,” he said.
Be that as it may, Kumail doesn’t shy away and opened up to the world about his new body; Nanjiani discovered it truly accommodating to see the response from his fans. And received much love and less hate! It is high time that we should stop body shaming and make world liveable for everyone.
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