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Marwa Hocane was the perfect choice for Sanam Teri Kasam , admits filmakers
Entertainment
Sun, Feb 07, 2021
Mawra Hocane’s brilliant execution of her role as a Brahmin girl in the film “Sanam Teri Kasam” has had the filmmakers still marvel about it till today.
“Sanam Teri Kasam” was released exactly five years ago, on February 5th. The cast included Taish s star, HarshvardhanRane, and none other than Pakistan’s top-tier actress, Mawra Hocane. This appearance was Ahista Ahista’s actress’s debut performance in Bollywood, and no doubt it swept the audience off their feet.
The film directors Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru were convinced about ensuring the diversity of their casting choices. They expected blank canvases to adapt to the storyline with much more extremity, and their performance would have more gravitas. Radhika Rao reportedly said, “It was great seeing a Muslim girl like Mawra playing the character of a Brahmin girl.”
NEW DELHI: The Raisina Dialogue, MEA’s flagship foreign policy and international affairs conference, has climbed up the global popularity charts and is now ranked fourth in the world, overtaking the global event it set out to emulate five years ago.
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) which collaborates with the foreign office to produce Raisina Dialogue has been ranked 20th among 174 top think tanks worldwide, and eighth among non-US bodies, says the annual ranking report.
The 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania is regarded as the definitive ranking system for think tanks globally, on a variety of metrics.
Villages start receiving water from Shamozai tributary
Peshawar
January 9, 2021
PESHAWAR: Shamozai tributary of the Upper Swat Canal, has been established for irrigating 7000 acres of the land of villages of Tazagram, Qasami, Alo, Lakpani, Dheri, Shamozai, Matta, etc. in district Mardan.
Main crops grown there are sugarcane, wheat, maize, vegetables and orchards.
The distributary supplies irrigation water to the lands of villages of the area without any problem to the land owners.It merits a mentioning here that a hydro-power plant with an installed capacity of 2.6 megawatts has been established by the provincial government on the Machi branch of Upper Swat Canal at Qasami village which disrupted water supply in Shamozai.