Stories by Raza Ali Sayeed
Raza Ali Sayeed is a journalist at Dawn.com and can be reached at rsayeed1984@gmail.com
A collection of scholarly essays is intellectually stimulating and enlightening in explaining the cross-cinema influences in...
Published 23 Jul, 2023 05:25am
Former banker-turned-entrepreneur Nadeem Hussain’s memoirs illustrate his belief that great achievement comes from bold visions
Published 02 Apr, 2023 09:15am
A reissue of the first novel in a Japanese hitmen trilogy is almost film noir in word form: complicated at the beginning, puzzling
Published 19 Mar, 2023 08:22am
A debut novel set just before Partition is a riveting read about luxurious lifestyles, lavish parties and forbidden romance...
Published 03 Jul, 2022 12:29pm
A Lebanese-American transgender doctor finds echoes of her own history in a Syrian refugee camp on a Greek island. A tou...
Published 30 Jan, 2022 07:11am
The 2020 Booker Prize-winner is a superb piece of world-building that exposes the devastations caused to working class...
Published 06 Jun, 2021 06:32am
Fellow climbers pay tribute to Muhammad Ali Sadpara, the mountaineer who disappeared attempting to become the first...
Updated 16 Feb, 2021 09:23pm
An anthology of essays on Pakistani cinema raises the question: what happens to
a society when its cinema dies?...
Published 11 Oct, 2020 07:01am
What is incredible about Nachayev`s manual is that it gives remarkable insight into the obsessive andnarrow worldview of a fanatic, who will stop at nothing to turn the world around him upside down.
Published 24 Jun, 2020 02:01am
Based on Ghulam Abbas' Anandi, its a superb satire on the tussle between prostitutes and holier-than-thou politicians.
Published 21 Jun, 2013 09:00pm
The Che Guevara story had its crucible in the ‘Motorcycle Diaries’ and director Walter Salles knew it.
Updated 24 May, 2013 05:14pm
Pakistanis can hold their heads high after conducting and participating in landmark general elections.
Published 13 May, 2013 01:00am
Rekha has probably never been more beautiful or more powerful as she is in the title role, and has the other characters revolving around her.
Published 19 Apr, 2013 05:42pm
Rekha has probably never been more beautiful or more powerful as she is in the title role of 'Umrao Jaan'.
Published 19 Apr, 2013 01:39pm
Immediately after its release, the film faced severe criticism, with some arguing that it justifies the use of terrorism and makes a shameless apology for it.
Published 15 Mar, 2013 01:26pm
Set a year before the 1857 uprising, this film is a window into a bygone era that is shifting, which the protagonists of the film refuse to accept.
Published 08 Feb, 2013 10:28am
Jack Nicholson cemented his status as a Hollywood leading man in the early 1970s with this great film noir.
Published 25 Jan, 2013 02:02pm
The aesthetically pleasing, albeit slow-paced film will keep you riveted by the way the story unfolds and more specifically the questions it asks the viewer.
Published 04 Jan, 2013 04:55pm
The sword fight between Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone has been called as one of the best, if not the best, ever committed to film.
Published 07 Dec, 2012 05:12pm
The Iranian film pokes fun at turbaned mullahs, and shows that it is alright to laugh in Islam.
Published 12 Oct, 2012 03:34pm
