In the early 1970s, Shoaib Hashmi was on television setting up new standards for skits and episodic pieces
Manto focused on the horror of partition as well as the lives of labourers, petty officials and women
Naushad Ali’s success story is similar to Prithviraj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar’s rise to fame
Vaisakhi was once the most prominent event of the agricultural calendar
Over the centuries, various forms of music such as qaawali have been linked to religious festivals
Ustad Bismillah Khan was influenced by his maternal uncle, Ali Bux, also a shehani player
Anwar Maqsood’s Sarhay Chauda August revolves around the idea of a utopia people wanted after the colonial rule
Qavi Khan had been exposed to radio and theatre before he started working for TV and cinema
Basant or basanti is the colour associated with spring
After a long time, Lahore has once again become the locus of festivals