Comments on: Umar Akmal withdraws from the 3rd test after his mother threatens to take his pocket money away

By: alex

alex — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:05:37 +0000

Trailer :Slackistan

Jrod gets paid for these advertisement in his blog. :D

By: reddevil7281

reddevil7281 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:57:13 +0000

I’ll try to watch both but this is not mainstream cinema by any stretch of the imagination. These types are the ones that are actually nice. Lets see!

By: jrod

jrod — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:55:30 +0000

Reverse swing, I don’t think they are trying to represent the whole country, just some spoilt rich kids in Islamabad, sort of Igby goes down in Pakistan.

By: Reverse Swing

Reverse Swing — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:44:26 +0000

Don't want to convert this post into Lollywood chit chat, otherwise there are ways to tell you how awesomish crap those movies are, you just have to watch one of them probably Punjabi movie with titles on and I bet you will get lot of stuff to write about or reffer to or even use as slang may be :D Well about Slackistan which claims to represent real Pakistan don't fall for it, they are just representing a community consisting of 15% or 20% of Pakistan. I can tell by just watching the trailer. .-= Reverse Swing´s last blog ..Dear Geoffery Boycott jumping on the ball isn’t “So What?” =-.

By: jrod

jrod — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:43:33 +0000

reddevil, I plan to, I plan on seeing slackistan and ZIBAHKHANA.

By: reddevil7281

reddevil7281 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:24:36 +0000

thanks! ordering now :)

jrod you have to see a couple of Pakistani films apart from Khuda Ke Liye (For the sake of God) to understand. About a decade ago I watched a big budget movie and it has a war with India in it and 2 helicopters were shot down during the movie, one during the day and one i the night … and they used the same footage for both! Also the intro of the lead heroine was in an aerobic class with 20 other females and it had extended shots of their bottoms … no kidding. That was the last time I saw a Pakistani movie apart from Khuda Ke Liye!

By: jrod

jrod — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:59:54 +0000

Reverse sweep, I think every country thinks their films are crap except for America, Nigeria and India. I haven't seen it, but it has finished production. Reddevil, How about buying it from here with free shipping to the UAE. Ka-ching.

By: Reverse Swing

Reverse Swing — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:21:33 +0000

well, here no body cares much about local films as mostly they are crap. This one seems better though.

I was talking about twitter profile, actors/actresses doesn’t go online often here. I am living in Lahore which is showbiz HUB but I am not in showbiz HUB and also not much interested. And this movie is also Islamabad based.

They haven’t officially announced the movie in local media though may be it is production yet. Just had a look at trailer, interesting.

Thanks for info ;)
.-= Reverse Swing´s last blog ..Dear Geoffery Boycott jumping on the ball isn’t “So What?” =-.

By: reddevil7281

reddevil7281 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:21:27 +0000

hmmmmmm, the Slackistan team needs to work harder on the Marketing!

I stumbled upon the book “When Freddie Became Jesus” through a twitter update by Iain O’Brien and then onto this blog through Google Alerts with “Pakistan Cricket” as the words I was looking for. Now I find out that jrod is the author of that book! I’d like to read it but don’t want to pay a lot for shipping … so my question is that is this book being sold in the UAE? We have Borders here so maybe you know if the chain is selling it. I’m too lazy to go to a mall these days so maybe I will go if I know for sure or maybe I will call them up or pop in one of these days :p

By: jrod

jrod — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:58:36 +0000

Reverse wing, You are in the HUB of Showbiz and you haven’t heard of the film Slackistan?