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“Azadi Rocks Music Festival,” Few hours to go!

CKO Event Architecture, the team behind the Karachi Eat Food Festival, is all set to host another event in Karachi “Azadi Rocks,” on 14th August to memorialize the Independence Day. The main idea is to bring together the citizens of Karachi in one place to celebrate the spirit of independence.

While talking about the event, Sara Chappra, Director CKO Events Architecture said,

“The objective with regards to the signature events like Karachi Eat, Lahore Eat, Light the Night – Chaand Raat and Azadi Rocks Music Festival is to give back to the people of Pakistan”

She further said,

“Our core business has always been the event management but over the last 3 years we started to design our own signature events that has been a huge success.”

She stated more,

“The aim of this event is to reclaim public places of Karachi. We are excited to organize another signature event, and we hope to have a positive response from Karachites.”

The Independence Day music concert has been designed for Karachites in order to revive public spaces around the city in the same way that Karachi Eat Food Festival revived Frere Hall. The venue of the event is Edulgee Road and it has been chosen specifically for the importance it holds in the urban fabric of Karachi. Featuring some of the biggest names in the Pakistani music scene today, Azadi Rocks is unique in its cause, include a good mix of local, folk and contemporary.

The event is sponsored by Faysal bank, and it will start with a 100 person marching band parading along the entire stretch of the road and ending up on stage to perform the national anthem. It will be followed by Kaya Band, Chronicles of Khan, Mai Dhai, Zoe Vicaji, Fuzon, and a grand finale performance by none other than Atif Aslam.

After the recent unfortunate incident in Quetta the management contemplated cancelation, however decided that although Pakistan is heartbroken and mourn with Quetta, cancelling the event and not standing up for our Independence on this day would be a far greater loss. Fear is, what is dividing us, what is preventing us from coming out and standing together. Our flag and our country is the only thing we have left that holds us together. That unites us. If today out of all the days we are expected to sit at home and not recognize our independence and honor all those lives that were lost so that we could live in freedom and be born AZAD then we have lost everything. We might as well give up now.

Azaadi Rocks Music Festival

Coke Studio 9 featuring artists revealed

Coke Studio 9 is going to be grand and exciting. Because this year, the season is featuring with over 30 artists, and offering a nice mix of old and new Pakistani musicians.

List of Coke Studio 9 featuring artists:

  1. Noor Zehra
  2. Haroon (Symt)
  3. Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch
  4. Junaid Khan (Call)
  5. Zeb Bangash
  6. Ali Azmat
  7. Javed Bashir
  8. Sanam Marvi
  9. Saieen Zahoor
  10. Ali Khan
  11. Sara Haider
  12. Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
  13. Amjad Sabri
  14. Abida Parveen
  15. Ali Sethi
  16. Naeem Abbas Rufi
  17. Momina Mustehsan
  18. Damia Farooq
  19. Natasha Baig
  20. Rafaqat Ali Khan
  21. Mehwish Hayat
  22. Asif
  23. Danish
  24. Naseebo Lal
  25. Umair Jaswal
  26. Meesha Shafi

First Look Of Upcoming Romantic Comedy Film “Lahore Se Aagey”

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“Lahore Se Aagey” is an upcoming Pakistani romantic comedy film, which is directed by Wajahat Rauf and written by Yasir Hussain and it will release under joint production of ARY Films and Showcase Films.

The film is a sequel of 2015 comedy film “Karachi Se Lahore.”

Yasir Hussain (who is well known for Moti from the film “Karachi Se Lahore”) and Saba Qamar will play the leading role in the film.

While Behroz Sabzwari, Rubina Ashraf, Abdullah Farhatullah, and Omer Sultan will play the supporting role in the film.

While talking about the film, director Wajahat Rauf said,

“The film will start from where it ended the last time. It is a journey based in Punjab as well as the Northern areas of Pakistan. The genre is similar to the first part as this one is also a comedy but it is going to be bigger and better; it will be high on energy.”

Behind featuring Yasir Hussain as a leading character, director Wajatat Rauf revealed,

“Following the release of Karachi Se Lahore, Moti became a tremendous hit amongst the audiences, so Yasir and I decided to make a separate film starring just him.”

While talking about Saba Qamar’s role, director Wajatat Rauf revealed,

“She will be essaying the role of an urban girl in the movie and, just like Ayesha Omar’s character in the original film, her character will also go through a transformation,”

While talking about the film, actor/writer Yasir Hussain revealed,

“This will be more of a romantic-comedy and will follow the adventures of a young couple set right after the events of Karachi Se Lahore.”

While talking about the film, actress Saba Qamar revealed,

“This film will be fare better than Karachi Se Lahore. Any issues that existed in that movie will not be present here.”

The shoot of the film is expected to start from March and the film is scheduled to release by the end of this year.

Kapoor and Sons – Wait Is Finally Over Now

The wait is finally over now!

The theatrical trailer of upcoming Bollywood film “Kapoor and Sons” has finally released yesterday.

The film is directed by Shakun Batra and produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.

Fawad Khan, Alia Bhatt, and Siddharth Malhotra are playing the leading role in the film.
This is going to be the second Bollywood film of Pakistani heartthrob actor Fawad Khan. He made his Bollywood debut from the film “Khoobsurat”

The story of the film “Kapoor and Sons” revolves around Kapoor family.

The trailer shows the disturbed family, where Mr. and Mrs. Kapoor fighting over their family apart marriage.

Mr. Kapoor (Rajat Kapoor)

Mrs. Kapoor (Ratna Pathak Shah)

While Rishi Kapoor is playing the role of grandfather as Mr. Kapoor, who has dream of getting a picture of his entire family together with a title “Kapoor and Sons (since 1921).”

Fawad and Siddharth are playing the role of brothers in the film, who arrives home after 5 years and they both seem to be fed up from their parents fighting.

They both are the best brothers until they fall in love with the same girl; which is Alia Bhatt, and then they start fighting with each other for her.

The trailer has already won the hearts of many audience, within just 24 hours more than 1m peoples have watched it on YouTube, and is being shared by large amount of peoples on social media.
The film is going to be super-duper hit, and now excitement for the film has been reached at its peak.

The film is going to be released on 18th March, worldwide.