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Music Album Review
Katy Perry's Prism
Perry puts her past behind her
with Prism, earning praise from critics
in the process. Katy Perry's Prism is
Television
Pakistani dramas: highlights of
2012
not Teenage Dream.
She made that
point abundantly
clear from the
moment she first
announced
her
new album, symbolically burning
the blue wig she
wore during her
"California Gurls"
p h a s e ,
then literally laying the era to rest at a mock
funeral. This was probably inevitable — after
all, Katy isn't the same person she was when
she released Teenage Dream (shattering records tends to have that effect) — though that
didn't make her reinvention any less surprising. Most times, artists follow up the biggest
album of their careers with, well, more of the
same.
Television may be considered
as small screen entertainment
but it has given us immense
quality amusement through big
names in terms of actors and
successful drama productions –
from the old days of PTV to the
recent times of private channels.
and others. Where Ansari gave a
power-packed performance, the
rest of the actors really helped her
making this play a huge success
for the audience who waited every
Sunday to find out more about different layers of Billo and her family.
This year began with all eyes
glued to Khirad and Asher‟s tragic
love story in Humsafar, eventually
introducing us to Durre- Shehwar‟s
life and later making us witnesses
to Aiman‟s Maat to her overambitious sister Saman. We gives you
a list of some of the productions
that deserve a tribute for making
our year so entertaining.
Durre-Shehwar: Umera Ahmed‟s
writings gave us yet another hit.
Director Haissam Hussein‟s beautiful depiction about complexities of
married life be it in today‟s urban
setting or yesterday‟s traditional
times, showed how certain issues
are common in every relationship.
It also depicted how powerful a
role a woman can play when giving her marriage every bit of patience and resolve possible.
Humsafar: Humsafar, which
started in the last quarter of 2011
and went on until March 2012,
took Pakistanis by storm. Not only
was the audience in Pakistan going crazy over it but it had major
ratings coming in from everywhere
in the world.
Maat: Written by Umera Ahmed,
the production featured a straightforward storyline, dialogues full of
impact and excellent performances
by Aamina Sheikh (Aiman) and
Saba Qamar (Saman). The drama
also featured Adnan Siddiqui
(Faisal) as Aiman and Saman's
cousin and romantic interest.
Bilquis Kaur: Directed b