Movies: Abida Parveen

“Huey Tum Ajnabi” is a romantic period drama film set in the backdrop of 1971. While the film showcases some of the major events of fall of Dhaka, East Pakistan, it is said to be not a political commentary and focuses more on the story of lead cast....

An ordinary 60 plus couple - Vidhyadhar Patwardhan and his wife are forced to search for their faith in human values and society after the death of their only son Amar. In the process they undergo the most testing struggle of their lives....

An ambitious girl seeks out her destiny and true love , when tables start to take a turn she meets a man who gives her a completely new perspective to life and love....

Conflict arises when, Reshmi, a young woman who has been engaged since childhood to her cousin, is courted by a famous pop star....

A love story that plays out in the foreground of an exodus that rendered millions homeless during the Afghan war. It touches upon the lives of those whose spirits were broken by the homes they lost and whose hearts were broken by the shelter they fou...

Rulia, a local hood who finds Ishq-e-Khuda , after he is ‘privileged’ by the prayer of a Sufi Dervish. In a parallel unconnected arc Ashan Khan – playing Ahsan, an engineer from Karachi – falls for Iqra, while Kulsoom, Iqra’s best childhood-bud, fall...

Historian William Dalrymple journeys to Morocco, Turkey, Syria and Pakistan to explore whirling dervishes, Qawwali singing and other forms of music sacred in Sufism, the branch of Islam that emphasizes music as a mystical route to the holy. Capturing...