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New Delhi:Â Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, eldest daughter of Pakistan’s former president Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, tied the knot with Mahmood Choudhry, the son of a US-based businessman, in a daytime ceremony Friday in Karachi.
Her brother and Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari took to Twitter and congratulated the newly wed couple with a heartfelt message.
He described it as the “happiest moment” of his life, adding that it “felt like our mother was watching over us in this moment of joy”. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi after an election rally.
Neelo was admitted to a private hospital three weeks ago due to some ailments.
She was born as Cynthia Alexander Fernandes in Bhera city of Sargodha district on June 3, 1940.
Neelo is the only Pakistani actress to have worked in a popular Hollywood film, ‘Bhowani Junction’ starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger, which also marked her film debut.
She then started working in local films a junior artiste and gradually rose from playing second-lead roles to a leading lady. However, it was her character in the film‘Zarqa’that proved to be her breakthrough. She essayed the title role of a Palestinian freedom fighter that made ‘Zarqa’ the first diamond jubilee film of Pakistan and is regarded as one of the best films in the country.
This excerpt is from an article originally published in March 2017
In the 1960s, Pakistan’s filmmakers often found inspiration in the national struggle of the Palestinian people and audiences generally responded well to such films.
Shaheed was a massive box office draw in 1962, and it seems to have inspired the making of
Zarqa in 1969.
Zarqa tells the story of an Arab woman who is able to become a fighter within the Palestinian liberation movement and through daring, courage and self-sacrifice wreaks massive destruction on the Israeli occupying military.
The film is violent, ideological, but in places quite moving. Talish, a fine character actor, plays Major David, a sadistic Israeli officer charged with capturing the Palestinian underground leader Shabaan Lutfi (Allaudin).
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Honouring Sultan Rahi, the Clint Eastwood of Lollywood
January 9, 2021 marks the 25th death anniversary of legendary actor and the Maula Jatt of Pakistan, Sultan Rahi
LAHORE:
January 9, 2021, marked the 25
th death anniversary of legendary Punjabi actor Sultan Rahi. While the late star has fans across the globe, many at home still remember his real-life personality that ruled over Pakistani cinema, and everyone’s hearts, for years.
Born on June 24, 1938, Rahi was an actor, producer and screenwriter who established himself as one of the leading and most successful performers in the Pakistani cinema. In fact, he was known as Pakistan s Clint Eastwood . During his 40-year career, he acted in some 703 Punjabi films and 100 Urdu films, winning around 160 awards.