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The banana duct-taped to a wall has been an internet sensation from the last few days and honestly, we all have wondered how this piece of artwork can be worth $120,000 equivelant to approximately Rs18618312.
Mehwish Hayat voiced our collective concern on social media.
Mehwish wrote that she was thinking of becoming an artist and taping a karela to the wall.
“If the Banana was sold for $120K wonder how much that would make…,” she wrote.
I am a self confessed art lover but I fail to understand some things that are passed off as art these days. ♀️ Actually thinking of becoming an artist myself and taping a karela (bitter melon) to the wall. If the Banana was sold for $120K wonder how much that would make… ♀️ https://t.co/kSagpIjvgW
The work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold for $120,000 last week at Miami’s Art Basel.
What’s interesting is that the banana was, in fact, a work of
art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled “Comedian” and sold to
a French collector for $120,000.
In a video posted on his Instagram account, David Datuna, who
describes himself as a Georgian-born American artist living in New York, walks
up to the banana and pulls it off the wall with the duct tape attached.
“Art performance … hungry artist,” he said, as he
peeled the fruit and took a bite. “Thank you, very good.”
Who needs Bollywood dance songs when we’ve got Abrarul Haq. After Billo, Abrar has given us another wedding jam, though to be honest, it doesn’t quite match up. But then again, Billo is iconic.
Abrar’s latest song Chamkeeli featuring Mehwish Hayat and Shahveer Jafry as the bride and groom on their wedding day is fun, lively and gives out energetic happy vibes.
Chamkeeli is picturised on a strong, empowered woman, played by Mehwish who knows what she wants on her wedding day. Mehwish looks every bit the rockstar bride in a bright, red gharara and sunglasses in some of the shots. Shahveer plays the shy groom.
Some fans speculated that the video shows an older woman marrying a younger boy and praised Abrar for choosing a progressive topic as the backdrop of his video.
And what’s even more interesting is that Mehwish has also sung a few lines of the song.
The moment we were all waiting for. There were rumours that Kubra Khan was going to play Shehwar’s (Adnan Siddiqui) wife who he has a terrible marriage with, but the episode ends with the entry of Maham, Shehwar’s domineering wife played perfectly by Savera Nadeem. Maham, a towering figure enters the episode and slaps Mehwish (Ayeza Khan) as she introduces herself to her about-to-become sautan.
Maham’s entry has Anushay hiding in the corner
The episode does have some difficult to understand situations. How did Shehwar suddenly decide to marry Mehwish after he had so adamantly said that marriage ruined love? There’s no explanation about his change of heart. And why is Roomi, Danish’s son, so fixated on getting his father married to Hania (Hira Mani)? The obsession stems from the fact that Danish obviously doesn’t want to get married and he will marry Hania because his son wants him to. Otherwise he wouldn’t be the true lover of love that he has been projected to be so far.
Roomi trying for the hundredth time to get Hania to get his father to marry ‘another girl’. How she doesn’t know yet, that the girl is her, is very strange
There’s also the concept of fake and real friends that plays into this episode. Danish is lucky to have a friend who is helping him with his work, staff that is helping him with his life. His life has literally changed in days and as he says to his friend, “log jubh aapse subh kuch cheen layte hain tou khush hojao, kyuinke Khuda tumhe sub kuch deyne wala hai,” (when people take everything from you, be happy. Because God is about to give you everything) and it seems like Danish is about to get everything.
Danish and Roomi are happy with each other and getting loads of money
But Mehwish is made of some strong stuff too. She doesn’t look or feel embarrassed when her friend Anoushey asks her about leaving her husband and child to have an affair with a married man. She takes it in stride and doesn’t pay any attention to the rumours (that are bound to be true) about Shehwar having forged his wife’s signatures and living in a house in her name.
Mehwish doesn’t care at all about what people think of her
Maham will take over the next episode and it’s going to be a brilliant one. With the already strong presence that Savera Nadeem exudes, she is the perfect person to play a woman who is not to be messed with. The only character that is still very weak is that of Hania. Hira Mani is playing the role like a dheemibeychari and compared to the other strong female characters, she’s coming across as not having a clue. Here’s to hoping that the writer didn’t have a beychari in mind for Danish and Hania develops into a character strong enough to take on the memory of Mehwish.
Lahore-born Zanib Naveed — crowned Miss Pakistan World in 2012 — was killed when her car hit a pavement and overturned into oncoming traffic, The New York Post has reported, citing police sources from Pomona, a village in Rockland County, New York state.
According to the police, the 32-year-old was driving when she attempted to take a curve to another road, but her car struck a pavement and flipped over.
She was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
Naveed graduated from Pace University in 2011 before going on to compete in the Miss Pakistan World pageant, which was held in Toronto, Canada. On August 24, 2012, she became the 10th person to win the pageant’s title.
She then went on to represent Pakistan in the 2012 Miss Earth pageant in the Philippines, which is the third-largest pageant after Miss World and Miss Universe.
Her Facebook account lists her as the President of the Miss Pakistan USA organisation.
She is survived by her parents, her brothers and her husband, Ali-Haider Shah, who took to social media to express his grief.
A showbiz decade marked by the emergence of the #MeToo movement, drama at Oscar time and a clutch of star-studded royal weddings is drawing to a close.
Here are the highlights from the decade.
2010
Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win best director at the Oscars for The Hurt Locker, a low-budget Iraq war drama that also beats blockbuster Avatar, directed by ex-husband James Cameron, to the best picture award.
Kathryn Bigelow
Model Naomi Campbell testifies at former Liberian leader Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial, saying she was given “dirty looking pebbles” but did not know if they were blood diamonds.
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen and actors Dennis Hopper and Tony Curtis die.
2011
Britain’s Prince William marries Kate Middleton.
Michael Jackson’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, is convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer’s 2009 death from a fatal dose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor and singer Amy Winehouse die.
2012
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie get engaged.
Beyonce and rapper Jay-Z welcome their first child, daughter Blue Ivy.
Actress Katie Holmes files for divorce from Tom Cruise after nearly six years of marriage.
Singers Whitney Houston and Robin Gibb die.
2013
William and Kate welcome their first child, son George, as do reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West, who name their daughter North.
Paul Walker dies.
2014
Jolie and Pitt tie the knot in France, George Clooney marries human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice and Kardashian and West wed in Florence.
George Clooney, Amal Clooney
Robin Williams passes away.
2015
Comedian Bill Cosby is criminally charged with indecent assault against one woman after dozens accuse him of sexual misconduct dating back decades. He denies the allegations.
Former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, stepfather of Kim Kardashian, becomes the most high-profile American to publicly come out as a transgender woman, taking the new name Caitlyn Jenner.
Johnny Depp marries Amber Heard.
Actors Omar Sharif and Leonard Nimoy and director Wes Craven die.
2016
Director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith boycott the Oscars because no black actors are nominated for a second straight year. The ensuing uproar leads the Academy of Motion Pictures to expand membership to more women and people of colour.
Jolie and Pitt split; Heard files for divorce from Depp.
Kardashian is robbed of millions of dollars of jewelry at gunpoint in Paris.
Music stars David Bowie, Prince and George Michael, and actors Alan Rickman, Carrie Fisher and Gene Wilder die.
2017
A blunder overshadows the Oscars as La La Land is wrongly named best picture. African-American drama Moonlight is the actual winner. PricewaterhouseCoopers, which oversees the ballots, says presenter Warren Beatty had been given the wrong envelope.
The New York Times and the New Yorker publish accounts by numerous women accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, fuelling the #MeToo movement across entertainment, politics and business. Weinstein denies any non-consensual sex.
Harvey Weinstein
A suicide bomber kills 22 people at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena. Grande later holds a benefit concert for the victims.
After winning six Grammys five years earlier for smash hit album 21, Adele triumphs again, taking five awards for follow-up 25.
2018
Cosby becomes the first celebrity to be convicted of sexual abuse since the #MeToo movement began.
Britain’s Prince Harry marries US actress Meghan Markle.
Singer Aretha Franklin, actor Burt Reynolds, comicbook supremo Stan Lee, designer Hubert de Givenchy and chef Anthony Bourdain die.
2019
Documentary Leaving Neverland, in which two men say they were abused as children by Michael Jackson, renews scrutiny of the singer’s legacy. Jackson’s estate calls it a “rehash of dated and discredited allegations”.
Prosecutors drop a sex assault case against Oscar winner Kevin Spacey after the alleged victim refuses to testify.
Harry and Meghan welcome their first child, Archie.
Hit medieval drama Game of Thrones wraps up after eight seasons. The ending divides fans.
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, actors Peter Fonda, Abid Ali and Luke Perry and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison die.
Mehwish Hayat who has lately been actively voicing her political thoughts, in a recent tweet, defended former military dictator and President General (r) Pervez Musharraf.
“This man was our President and guided us through some very difficult times. Like him or loathe him, he deserves the opportunity to be heard,” she wrote in her tweet, asserting that he deserves dignity.
Let’s put politics aside for one moment. This man was our President & guided us through some every difficult times. Like him or loathe him, he deserves the opportunity to be heard. At least we can grant him that dignity.After all does the law not say”Innocent till proven guilty”? pic.twitter.com/ys2Sbyph64
When someone demanded that the former president Asif Ali Zardari also be given the same opportunity, Mehwish said, “Nobody is above the law, all that I am saying is give him a chance to be heard at least. Guilt or otherwise is the decision of the courts.”
Nobody is above the law, all that I am saying is give him a chance to be heard at least. Guilt or otherwise is the decision of the courts.
Designer Maheen Khan agreed with Mehwish’s point of view.
I firmly agree. We r a nation of haters & we find itdifficult2honor our heroes. Caseinpoint Nusrat F.A.K.Theonly timesinPakistans History I havebeena proudnational hasbeenduring Ayub khan P.Mussharaf &now Imran khan .All 3 r criticisedbrutally. Asforthe rest wedeservedwhatwe got
Meanwhile, Gen Musharraf, who is currently in the hospital for the treatment of an unknown ailment, released a video from his hospital saying that he has not been heard and is being “victimised.”
The former military dictator is facing a high treason case in Pakistan for implementing emergency rule and suspending the constitution in 2007. The verdict for the case will reportedly be announced by a special court in Islamabad on December 17 after hearing the arguments of the government’s new prosecution team.
In the video message, Musharraf had said, “As far as this [treason] case is concerned, this is absolutely baseless. I have served my country for 10 years. I have fought for my country. This [treason] is the case in which I have not been heard and I have been victimised.”
Previously, Khadija Shah of Élan had also tweeted out in favour of Gen Musharraf.
A Mexican couple was inspired to convert to Islam after watching Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s favourite Turkish TV series “Resurrection: Ertuğrul”, and meeting with one of its actors at a convention in the United States (US), a Turkish daily newspaper reported.
According to reports, Celal Al, who plays Abdulrahman Alp in the hit period drama, attended the 22nd annual meeting of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a flagship Muslim organisation, and delivered a speech about the series and Turkey.
Al, who was the guest of Zekat Foundation, was met with great interest at the event, which enables Muslims from all over the US to meet up. At the end of the meeting, a Mexican couple converted to Islam by reciting the Shahadah (Islamic proclamation of faith) with the help of the famous actor.
“We were affected by Turkish TV series ‘Resurrection: Ertuğrul’ and Turkey’s humanitarian activities around the world, and then decided to be Muslim,” the Mexican couple was quoted as saying.
After becoming Muslims, Al gifted the couple two Qurans, one in English and another in Spanish, as well as a Turkish flag.
Taking place in 13th century Anatolia, “Resurrection: Ertuğrul” tells the story of the period prior to the establishment of the Ottoman Empire Ertuğrul Gazi, the father of the empire’s first leader.
The series illustrates the struggle of Ertuğrul and his warriors against a plethora of adversaries from the Knights Templar to Mongol invaders.
Turkey is one of the top five series-exporting countries in the world, enthralling audiences from Latin America to Central Asia. Dozens of Turkish series are being followed by more than 500 million viewers in over 150 countries, according to Turkey’s Culture Ministry.
A day earlier, PM Imran had directed Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) to air the famous Turkish series.
Glorifying muslim Heroes and Islamic history , Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed PTV to air ‘Ertugrul’
According to Arab News, the drama will soon air on PTV after being dubbed in Urdu. the national broadcaster has gotten exclusive rights for dubbing and screening it in Pakistan and voice actors for the drama have been selected.
The development came two months after the premier announced that Pakistan, Turkey and Malaysia have decided to launch a joint English channel to counter Islamophobia.
British band Coldplay has released a new album titled Everyday Life and it features the late qawwal Amjad Sabri.
In an interview with Entercom, the band’s lead singer Chris Martin while talking about the second song in the album Church — released as a single — shared the inspiration behind it sharing that the band have incorporated samples from Sabri’s hit track Jaga Ji Laganay into it.
“There’s two cool other singers on that one. There’s this guy who was a Pakistani singer, called Amjad Sabri. He was sadly murdered by people who didn’t like what he stood for. Then there’s a friend of ours called Norah who is a guy from Jerusalem.”
Martin described Church as a love song that “fell through the sky,” referring to how the band received inspiration to make a song they think is great.
Whether Coldplay obtained permission from Sabri’s family to use the track is not known as of yet.
Meanwhile, Everyday Life has already made it to the top of the Official Album Charts.
The stock market in Pakistan has witnessed an increase by gaining 40,000 points after a gap of around 10 months, and netizens are thanking Danish from the popular TV serial ‘Mere Paas Tum Ho‘ for buying shares worth Rs7.8 million in the latest episode that aired Saturday.
The TV serial took an unexpected turn after Danish purchased shares of Shahwar Chemicals — a company owned by his ex-wife Mehwish’s new lover Shahwar Ahmed — to further inflict damage to the company that is undergoing losses for the past few months.
While Danish buying shares played a typical form of karma in the serial for his wife, people can’t help but laud the character for causing an actual stock market upsurge.
Twitterati couldn’t help but notice how that moment in the serial coincided perfectly with a stock market rise in Pakistan in reality, and the microblogging website was soon flooded with memes.
Actor Humayun Saeed, who plays Danish, is once again breaking the internet and here’s what social media users have to say about the coincidence:
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday crossed the 40,000 mark after a gap of around 10 months as the KSE-100 index closed at 40,122 points with a positive change of 836 points. A total of 361,655,400 shares were traded during the day, whereas the value of shares traded stood at Rs13.75 billion as compared to the previous day’s value of Rs11.9 billion.
Zeeshan Khan’s directorial debutTalash, starring Ahmad Zeb, Noaman Sami and Fariya Hasan, was recently screened at the UN Headquarters in New York. The feature film focuses on the detrimental impact of malnutrition and stunting on children’s development.
According to APP, the show was arranged by the recently-formed UN staff Recreation Pakistan Club to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Right of the Child.
Talash has been directed by debutante Zeeshan Khan, who was also present on the occasion. The film’s plot is centred on three medical students who are sent to a remote village in Tharparkar district of Sindh to set up health camps and educate the people there about maternal health. They face many challenges in the feudal setup but manage to be successful in their mission.
APP reported that the film was received positively by those present in the audience. This included Botswana’s UN Ambassador Collen Vixen Kelapile, senior UN officials, including Stewart Simonson, assistant director-general, WHO, and Haoliang Xu, assistant secretary-general, UNDP. They praised the Pakistani movie on its critical subject.
Meanwhile, the cast of the film also shared images from the screening.
Meanwhile, the chief guest at the event, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram, told the gathering that Prime Minister Imran Khan, in his first address to the nation, pledged to reduce child stunting and improve maternal health. He said a number of projects have been launched in the country to eradicate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms, especially in under-developed parts of the country.
