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There’ll be nothing better than PSL coming home: Mahira Khan

There’ll be nothing better than PSL coming home: Mahira Khan

Posted on 28 February 2018 by Usama Hashmi - Total hits: 2,193

DUBAI: Pakistan Super League T20 tournament is in full swing in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Pakistani teams alongside other esteemed international stars and players have come together to play against each other for the third year of the league. As the brand PSL grows bigger and stronger, different teams have brought on mainstream television and movie stars to take on the role of their brand ambassadors.

This year’s brand ambassador for Peshawar Zalmi is none other Mahira Khan, who is one of Pakistan’s most popular and beloved actors. Mahira tweeted earlier last week that she had joined Peshawar Zalmi as brand ambassador and appeared in Peshawar Zalmi’s music video alongside Hamza Ali Abbasi who is also the team’s brand ambassador. The music video, where Mahira looks fierce and does a customary Pakhtun dance is shot very much with the team members of Peshawar Zalmi and Hamza Ali Abbasi. The video and the anthem is perhaps the best out of all the anthems this year in PSL.

But the video is not the only exciting part about Zalmi fans, Mahira and Hamza’s fandom knows no bounds – be it on social media or in the stadium. Fans and media mobbed Mahira Khan for the chance of interviews and selfies with her. The Express Tribune caught up with Mahira Khan amidst all the excitement and madness of Pakistan Super League 2018 to talk about Peshawar Zalmi, cricket memories and more.

How does she like it, this PSL madness, I ask the Verna star. Has she ever been a part of something like this? “Never,” she responds looking around with her distinctive childlike candour. “I’ve never been a part of something like this – the last time I remembered that I was in a stadium when I was in Karachi when I was fifteen years old. We’d packed our bags and we were in a little box. It was all quite exciting.”

Is there any déjà vu she feels? “A little,” she replies thinking briefly. She shakes her head immediately afterwards and begins to say something else when there is suddenly a huge noise outside the press box, where the match is happening. The audience has gone wild. Has Zalmi scored? “This is something else though,” she remarks, perhaps denoting the electric atmosphere. “I love being here, I love rooting for the team.”

A lot of people criticised the PSL beginning in Dubai and having most of its matches here. While its final was played in Lahore last year and this year it would be played in Karachi, it continues to garner criticism for being held mostly in Dubai. Does Mahira agree? “It should definitely happen in Pakistan,” she nods. “There’ll be nothing better than PSL coming home,” Mahira says warmly. “Our stadiums getting full. Nothing better than that. If you’re asking me if I’d rather have it at home, yes. I would. But in a way, what is happening here in Dubai is amazing too. All cricket lovers from all over the world are coming here and watching this tournament happen. Which is also a great thing, I think.”

When we talked about the sense of betrayal Karachiites felt (I simply had to ask) as Mahira, a Karachiite herself, supports Peshawar’s team. Did Mahira face any backlash for going to Zalmi’s side? When I ask her this, she bursts out laughing. “Absolutely, I’ve got whatsapp groups going insane.” She pushes her hair back and gears up for a suitable explanation for this. “See, for me, if we win, my team wins, if your team wins, it’s a win-win situation.” She does have a point.

“You know the cool part is though,” the Humsafar actor says, “when the match is happening, till the time the match is going on, you’re like uurgghh (she makes a little angry warrior gesture) but when it’s over, everyone’s friends again!”

Mahira Khan is also the brand ambassador of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and was recently in Dubai at one of their fundraisers as well. Peshawar Zalmi had flown in some children from the hospital to attend one of the matches. Mahira had not had the chance to interact with them but she speaks just as passionately about them.

“I couldn’t get the chance to meet them, by the time I arrived in here, it was too late, otherwise I would have met them because it is one my absolute favourite things to do. To interact with them. And I recommend it to everyone. Next time you’re in Lahore, you must visit them. Take your kids. It’s a very special place to be.”

Mahira Khan will be seen soon in a film opposite Sheheryaar Munawar called Saat Din Muhabbat In and in another film opposite her Zalmi brand ambassador friend, Hamza Ali Abbasi, in Maula Jatt 2.

 

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Meme Proposal | Tim + Audrey

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Meme Proposal | Tim + Audrey

Posted on 28 December 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 6,813

The couple in this video is Timothy Tiah Ewe Tiam, the co-founder of the ever popular ad-blogging site Nuffnang, and his Malaysian girlfriend who is a blogger, now his fiancee, Audrey Ooi Feng Ling.

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Tim’s blog – timothytiah.com/2011/12/21/video-of-our-meme-proposal
Audrey’s blog – fourfeetnine.com/2011/12/11/the-proposal

You can also follow Tim and Audrey on Twitter – @timothytiah @fourfeetnineaud

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Bol by Shoaib Mansoor

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Bol by Shoaib Mansoor

Posted on 23 June 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 9,094


Bol is an upcoming Urdu film written, directed and produced by Shoaib Mansoor. This Urdu feature film is expected to release on 24 June 2011.The film stars Atif Aslam, Humaima Malik Mahira Khan, Shafqat Cheema, Manzar Sehbai, Zaib Rehman & Amr Kashmiri in the lead roles.

Atif Aslam, who features in the film as a doctor, in an interview stated, “I have done two songs for the soundtrack. It’s been a great experience working with Shoaib Mansoor, he is an amazing person and very dedicated. The film is about Sunnis and Shias. My role isn’t controversial and we discussed it beforehand. It’s a film that is being made for a good cause”. The film was reviewed by the Central Board of Film Censors in Lahore on 8 November 2010, and received its approval the next day. The film is set in Lahore and many students from National College of Arts’ (NCA) filmmaking department have assisted Shoaib Mansoor on the film.

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I am Pakistani and I am Just Like You

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I am Pakistani and I am Just Like You

Posted on 02 January 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 19,445

I am Pakistani and I am Just Like You !!!

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Atrium 3D Cinema Karachi

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Atrium 3D Cinema Karachi

Posted on 31 December 2010 by PakBee - Total hits: 77,794

Atrium 3D cinema Karachi is the first 3D digital cinema in Pakistan and following is the address of Atrium 3D cinema Karachi

Entrance from Raja Ghazanfer Ali Road,
Behind Avari Towers, 3rd Floor,
Atrium Mall Karachi, Pakistan

The sophisticated Three Multi-Screen Cinema Complex is equipped with the state of the art facilities of Digital & 35 MM projection including the world renowned Dolby Digital & DTS Surround Sound. The venue is intended to facilitate over 650 people at one time with cinema ‘A’ seating 154, cinema ‘B’ 176 and cinema ‘D’ 312 which is also additionally equipped with the D- Cinema Projection. The cinema has also been designed to be wheel chair friendly and will also provide Assistive Listening device (ADL) for hearing impaired.

Located behind Avari Towers on the 3rd Floor of Atrium Mall, it enjoys the privilege to be established as the first Multi-Screen Cinema Complex in a Mall environment, hence creating another milestone in the modernization of the Industry. The key people behind this project passionately deliver their vision for an incomparable experience. They include:

a. Mr. Younus Habib (Group Chairman) & Zahid Younus Habib – CEO & Director of the Mall/ Cinemas
b. Mr. Iqbal Machiyara / Rizwan Machiyara – Builder of the Mall/Cinemas
c. Mrs. Naheed Mashooqullah – Interior Designer of the Cinemas
d. Mr. Hussain Chagla – Technical Engineer/Consultant of the Cinemas
e. Mr. Nadeem H. Mandviwalla – Head of Atrium Cinemas Project

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