If planning your kids’ entertainment during the school holidays is a demanding duty, rest assured that Waadi Animations will be taking your kids off your hands for at least an afternoon, come May. The production company has officially announced the release date of its debut project, Pakistan’s first children’s feature film titled 3 Bahadur,
If planning your kids’ entertainment during the school holidays is a demanding duty, rest assured that Waadi Animations will be taking your kids off your hands for at least an afternoon, come May. The production company has officially announced the release date of its debut project, Pakistan’s first children’s feature film titled 3 Bahadur, which is set to hit the screens on May 22, 2015. Not only is the film a cause for celebration for parents of entertainment-starved children in Pakistan, but also for the film industry at large: 3 Bahadur also has the distinction of being Pakistan’s first fully animated feature film.
3 Bahadur is the story of three 11-year-old friends Amna, Saadi and Kamil in the fictional town of Roshan Basti. The trio is rewarded for its bravery with super-powers that help them defend their hometown against the forces of evil. The film is a journey of fighting back, taking charge, and finding support and love in the most improbable of places.
3 Bahadur features voice artists including Behroze Subzwari, Khalid Ahmed, Alyy Khan and Bassam Shazli, and a soundtrack composed and sung by Shiraz Uppal. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has taken care of the creative direction of the film. The film is also intended for international release, which is expected to occur in the fall of the year.
Sana Safinaz makes cricket fever 
fashionable with World Cup kurta
Gals struck with cricket fever have a new must-have to acquire for their wardrobes: the Sana Safinaz World Cup kurta, designed for Ten Sports. A welcome relief from the homogenous swathes of green we have witnessed this weekend, Sana Safinaz shows us how to wear our love for Pakistan on our sleeve without looking like a leprechaun.
The Pakistan cricket logo sits front and centre on a vibrant mishmash of pretty floral prints, so there will be no need to relegate the kurta to the furthest nooks of the your wardrobe once cricket season’s over. This one’s a keeper for whenever a sartorial shout-out to Pakistan, especially its cricket team, is the order of the day.
Get your hands on the kurta at the Sana Safinaz outlets in Dolmen City Mall in Karachi and Gulberg Galleria in Lahore.
Spectre spotted: Daniel Craig on skis in movie’s first look
The first official image of Daniel Craig filming the new James Bond film Spectre has been released. The image shows Craig in dark glasses on top of a mountain, during one of the movie’s major action sequences.
Associate Producer, Gregg Wilson called the sequence “amazing”, “spectacular” and a “jewel in the crown” of the film. Fans have previously seen unofficial footage from the film shoot, after Craig was spotted travelling up the River Thames in a speedboat. Sanctioned footage from behind the scenes of the Austrian set, shows the filming of a car chase in the snow, with Bond grabbing a man from behind and shooting another one. It also reveals a large, glass building high up in the mountain, that could be the base for Spectre.
Production Designer Dennis Gassner said the film company had searched through many countries to find the unique, modern facility. “I think that we are going to continue the history of the Bond films, making things that are exciting for the audience to look at,” he said. “And what could be more exciting than to be on top of the world?” The production manager admitted filming on the mountain was causing problems with altitude sickness and weather.
But for Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista, who plays Mr Hinx, the setting was “very surreal”. “It looks like a painting, especially for me,” he said. “I’m from the inner city, it’s my first time ever up a mountain.”
Filming on the 24th official James Bond film started at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire in December. At the launch of the film, it was confirmed that Christoph Waltz will have a role in the film, playing a character called Oberhauser, which is the same name as Bond’s former ski instructor. However, it has been rumoured Waltz will really be playing Bond’s old nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
The shady Spectre organisation featured in Ian Fleming’s Bond books, and the Sean Connery-era films. An international crime syndicate with Blofeld as its number one, it counted the metal-handed scientist Dr Julius No and eyepatch-wearing Emilio Largo amongst its villainous ranks.
Spectre will be released on November 6, 2015.
