Lollywood Flashback
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Severed limbs and rivers of blood: The film that inspired Fawad Khan’s ‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’
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The Pakistani biopic of Muhammad Ali Jinnah that was abandoned because it ‘lacked feeling’
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Sound of Lollywood: ‘Ay Bhai Ay Mister!’ is the highlight of a virtuoso soundtrack
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Sound of Lollywood: There are movies with lots of songs, and then there is ‘Ishq-e-Laila’
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Sound of Lollywood: The one song in ‘Black Mail’ that is worth the price of admission
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Sound of Lollywood: To French hit ‘Ne me quitte pas’ with love and the same regret
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Sound of Lollywood: Comedy ‘Uff Yeh Beevian’ has one redeeming feature, and it’s a song
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Sound of Lollywood: A touch of warm Bengali folk music in ‘Aakhri Station’
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Sound of Lollywood: When the Sabri brothers qawaali ‘Bhar Do Jholi’ saved the day
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Sound of Lollywood: Screen darling Anjuman teams up with Musarrat Nazir for a double treat
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Sound of Lollywood: Go on, makes eyes at someone
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Sound of Lollywood: A hip-swinging dance number from the Pakistani Laila-Majnu movie
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Sound of Lollywood: The classy classical number by the one and only Noor Jehan
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Sound of Lollywood: The big difference between ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ and its Pakistani rip-off
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Sound of Lollywood: In ‘Lakhon Mein Aik’, a reminder of the unhealed wounds of 1947
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Sound of Lollywood: A singing star and a jazzed-up thumri from Pakistani cinema’s finest decade
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Sound of Lollywood: Salman Rushdie versus defenders of Islam (and a song for the Prophet)
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Sound of Lollywood: In Pakistan’s version of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, a stirring lament for love
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Sound of Lollywood: The high notes of hippie ode ‘Make Love Not War’
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Sound of Lollywood: Listen to Noor Jehan letting it rip in Punjabi
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Sound of Lollywood: Anything goes and that’s the point of ‘Akh Ladti Hai Jab Dildar Se’
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Sound of Lollywood: In ‘Main Hun Dream Girl’, peppy women in tight outfits create a ruckus
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Sound of Lollywood: Noor Jehan voices the courtesan’s complaint in Pakistani film ‘Umrao Jaan Ada’
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Sound of Lollywood: When ghazal king Ghulam Ali gave over his glorious voice to a love song
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Sound of Lollywood: The delectably named ‘Ding Dong Ding Dong’ from ‘Deewar’ (not that one)
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Sound of Lollywood: ‘Hello Hello My Dear’ marks a sweet romance between Pakistan and Indonesia
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Sound of Lollywood: Alam Lohar’s magnificent voice rescues ‘Yeh Aadam’ from being written off
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Sound of Lollywood: Yes means no in RD Burman-inspired dance song from ‘Cheeta Chaalbaaz’
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Sound of Lollywood: Cashed-up Pakistanis don’t realise the joke is on them in ‘Kya Haseen Jism Hai’
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Sound of Lollywood: The Pakistani playboy who was cured of his wicked ways
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Lollywood music special: Pakistani star Sultan Rahi like never before in ‘Jasoos’
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Sound of Lollywood: The tawaif song gets a twangy country music twist in ‘Anjuman’
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Sound of Lollywood: An obscure movie has a hidden gem for qawwali fans
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Sound of Lollywood: When men turned into dupatta-covered minions in ‘Aurat Raj’
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Sound of Lollywood: ‘Mujhe Dil Se Na Bhulana’ from the superhit ‘Aaina’ is truly unforgettable
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Sound of Lollywood: A Pakistani Western asks, ‘Tell me dear, to which nation do you belong?’
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Sound of Lollywood: Jazz, wanton women and a deeply horrified man in ‘Ae Roshiniyon Ke Shahar Bata’
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Sound of Lollywood: To Palestine, with love from the great Pakistani star Neelo
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How a bunch of ageing Pakistani musicians created a global viral sensation