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South Asian Streamer ZEE5 Global Launches ‘Desi Noir’ Anthology Series ‘Qatil Haseenaon Ke Naam’
The drama will be streamed on the app’s Zindagi vertical, which has been a digital bridge uniting Indian and Pakistani cinema creatives.
Emphasizing the theme of female empowerment, the show focuses on the fearlessness of women and their determination to avenge deceit, whilst being set in ‘Androon Sheher’ (meaning ‘Downtown’) – a mythical neighbourhood. Themes of love, ambition, revenge and revolution will also be explored. Meenu Gauris director.
The series is headlined by prominent Pakistani actors including Sanam Saeed(Zindagi Gulzar Hai), Sarwat Gilani(Jawani Phir Nahi Ani), Mehar Bano(Daagh), Faiza Gillani(Deewangi), Beo Raana Zafar(Cake), Samiya Mumtaz(Dhoop Ki Deewar) and Eman Suleman(Zindagi Tamasha). Pakistani heartthrobs Osman Khalid Butt(Diyar-e-Dil),
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Immigrant Stories On Screen
Immigrant Stories On Screen
Immigrant stories are an integral part of the American narrative. Although we have countless monuments and museums that testify to our journeys as immigrants, there are only a few films.
Filmmaker James Gray says this surprised him since immigrant stories are inherently cinematic — weaving together international settings, powerful characters and a narrative arc built around survival and reinvention. But he says while mainstream Hollywood films focus on superheroes and commercial guarantees, contemporary world cinema is bursting with stories about borders, migrants and their journeys.
Gray's own new film The Immigrant revisits the origins of the American immigrant experience. It opens with misty, sepia-toned scenes of 1921 New York City, as a young woman disembarks from Poland at Ellis Island. Ewa, played by Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard, is separated from her sister and saved from deportation bygd a shado
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Afghan (Re)Migration from Pakistan to Turkey: Transnational Norms and the ‘Pull’ of Pax-Ottomanica?
Introduction
Since the onset of conflicts in Afghanistan in the 1970s, for Afghans of a particular class, namely the rural and urban poor, Iran, Pakistan, and increasingly the Middle Eastern Gulf States have been the primary locales of Afghan migration and a focus of a research, policy making, and artistic and cultural imaginings. However, limited attention has been paid toward increased Afghan and wider Central and South Asian migration towards Turkey. Similarly, in recent years significant academic and public attention has been given to Turkey as a recipient state of migrants, but this has been limited to refugees fleeing war in bordering Iraq and Syria. In part this focus (or lack of) is because Turkey has not traditionally been understood as a ‘migrant’ destination per se and in fact has been understood as a migrant sending state (in particular to European states such as Germa