Anjuman

First off, let me tell you guys about the movies. Tarang Housefull is remaking 6 movies from the 60’s and 70’s pakistani movies. Every Friday they air a new movie on GEO. Last Friday, they aired the 2^nd movie, Anjuman. They have the old movie on in the afternoon and then after prime time show, the remake is on air. The first movie was “Abhi toh mein jawan hoon”. Honestly, even though the cast was good, it didn’t appeal to me. I didn’t watch it.

Anjuman, I watched it. I didn’t see the old one, as much as I wanted to. By the time I turned the tv on, it was halfway through so since I didn’t know the story, I didn’t watch it. I LOVED the remake! The cast was perfect.

Cast:

Mona Lisa, now known as Sara Loren was the tawaif: Anjuman
Imran Abbas played Waheed Murad’s role: Asif
Aly Khan played the older brother’s role:  Wajahat
Iffat Omar was the bhabhi.

Story Line:
Anjum Hayat Khan (Anjuman) is a prostitute/dancer but wants to study and be successful. Wajahat is in love with Anjuman. When Asif finds out about his brother, he goes to find Anjuman. She tells him that Wajahat owns her, as of, "nat utarwai". He asks to replace his brother as he's married and falls in love with her. I don't want to reveal too much. You have to watch it to find out.

Acting:
Sara Loren was fabulous. I loved her. She really did justice to the role she was given. Her expressions were amazing! No one else, in my opinion, could’ve done this role better than her. Imran Abbas also did justice to his role.

Music:
I loved the music! Especially “Dil Dharkey mein tumse ye kaisey kahoon”.. Obsessed! Have listened to it 20+ time in the last half hour. It’s just amazing. I love how they have made it slower than the actaul one sang  by Runa Laila, where as, this one is sung by Sunidhi Chouhan. I think she did a very good job. It’s a must listen! “Aap din ki anjuman me” was good as well.

Outfits:
Outfits overall were very good! They followed the 2013 trend and they were all gorgeous.

The direction, producting, dialogues all were amazing!

As you can tell, I loved the movie (as if I haven’t said that like 3 times through this post)!

love it!

 

Waiting for “Dil mera dharkan teri” next week!

Engagement...

So no need to get confused with the blog title, I am not engaged yet.

But that is what my weekend consisted of, living in Pakistan, you would know how late the wedding/engagement functions tend to end and on top of that, we have 2 functions on separate days for engagements. I don't get thee point of 2 days thing. I mean why not just have one big bash and have the ceremony. That's what I plan on doing when I get engaged. Let's hope that works out for me.

Anyways, on Friday afternoon, I got call from a friend/cousin of mine inviting me to her engagement the next night (Saturday night). So, first thing, what do I wear? Obviously being a girl and obsessed with clothes. I opened my closet and picked out a black dress which I thought would be suitable since it was a dinner.

Now the surprise that I got when I reached there Saturday night. I went upstairs where the bride was getting ready and she told me I had to be her bride's maid (I don't know the proper name for the girls with the bride on her engagement). Shocked? yes! I don't know the first thing about being a bride's maid. There's a first time for everything right?

Well, we walked out to the tent with her, another cousin on her other side. We had help with her duppata (scarf) before she sat on the stage and god knows what else. Keep her gifts with us, check her make up, since it was quite hot that night. Poor girl seemed so exhausted. She had to sit up straight and that wasn't the end of it. The next day, at her in-laws, where the ring ceremony was. We had to sit like that for more than 6-7 hours. It was exhausting and tiring!

Seeing the bride, it kind of scares me because I'm not the kind to be able to sit straight like that for so long. I like to be comfortable and thank god, some families don't think it's a must for a girl to sit like that for so long. I want to be the kind of bride to be walking around and meeting all the guests and having fun rather than being uncomfortable and sitting on the stage like a statue.

Sorry for such a long post, basically what I mean to say is please change your thinking people. We're in the 21st century and gone are the days where the girls have to become a statue, can't move, can't talk! I think the bride's should be able to enjoy herself and sit however she wants. Also, the experience of being with the bride was a good one. Although, it was long but I had fun. It's special to be a part of something like that.

What are your thoughts?

Earthquake.

I'm sure, by now, everyone has seen on the news or read on the internet about the Earthquake in Iran that was also felt in Pakistan, India, Dubai and a lot of different countries.

It is said to be 7.9 magnitude earthquake. As per the news, the earthquake was felt mostly (other than Iran, of course) in Karachi because of all the big buildings we have here.

Me and my sister, Hajra, were just causally sitting watching tv like any other day. Suddenly, the couch started moving. We called out to our mom who was in her room and well all hell went loose. We ran downstairs, ringing everyone's doorbells so that we could evacuate the building. After we were all coming up stairs, back into our homes, we noticed that our neighbor never left his house. He came out and he said he was praying. That's when it hit me, instead of running around like maniacs, we should've been asking for forgiveness for our sins and praying to Allah to keep us safe. It's heart breaking to see that instead of us praying when it's mostly needed, we are looking for our phones and locking our house doors and god knows what else. It never even crossed our minds to at least call out to Allah!

Anyways,  Alhumdulillah, we are all okay and there was no damage done to our building or any others around our building. I really hope everyone is safe! Pray, pray and pray! That's the only thing we'll need when we leave this world and nothing else. Not our homes, phones or anything! Please stay safe and don't forget to pray!

May ALLAH SWT forgive our sins and protect us all! Ameen!

Happy Birthday Missy! :)

Happy Birthday Best Friend!!

I could go on and on about me and you but then this post would be very veryyy long. So.. all I want to say is Happy Birthday Maha! I'm so blessed to have you in my life. Honestly, I have no idea where I would be without you! It's amazing how we started talking and in no time became best friends! I pray that all your dreams and wishes come true. You are my drama queen and I love you for it.

You're always there when I need you, whether it's in the good times or bad. I am so glad I met Touba and because of her, I met you! You're my soul sister and no one can ever replace you in my life and heart! No matter the distance, we'll always be close and always will be there for each other. After all, isn't that what we're here for?

Our stupid convos, our marriship (lol), us hanging out and making the best of every moment means so much to me! All that I've been through in the past 3 years, you've always been my solid rock to rely on, to help me through everything and I hope I have been able to do the same for you.

May Allah SWT always shower his blessings upon you and may he bless you with all the happiness in the world because you truly deserve it!

I love you and happy birthday! <3

Happy Birthday Maha! <3

 

Devil's Point!

Yes, the name Devil's point sounds evil but if you live in Karachi and you haven't been to Devil's Point or Do Darya (2 rivers), you must go! The view is amazing, the restaurants are beautiful with a desi touch and the food there is spectacular! I'm a big foodie! Love eating out too much!

All the people visiting Karachi anytime soon, add this place to your list of places where you would like to go! It's just so lovely to sit by the water and have dinner, the water splashing against the rocks and you can see the fishes jumping out the water too.

This was our third time going to DP (Devil's point). Now there is a lot of choices as per restaurants. There's Creek Inn, Hot Bite, Al-Habib, Norani Kabab House, Kolachi and many more. We went to Sajjad Restaurant last night.

Sajjad Restaurant

Since it was Saturday night, there was a long waiting line, around 30-45 minutes of waiting till we finally got our table. We saw crabs on the rocks below our table too!
Moving on to the food. We've been to Sajjad before too so one thing which is an absolute must for us to order is Dhaka Chicken, it's fried chicken with fries. It's amazinggg!! We ordered steaks there for the first time. The Mexican steak was very good. The salsa sauce, jacket potato, sautéed veggies with garlic naan.

The best time I would recommend to go at is a little before sunset. The view will be amazing and you can actually take pics with the ocean showing up in the background!

Do let me know in the comments if you have been there and how you like it :)

Dhaka Chicken! Yummy!!

 The crabs! (best I can do with an iphone 4) sorry!

Mexican Steak with Salsa sauce :)


Yayyy! My very first blog post!

Hi! Okay, so I finally decided to start my own blog. I've been thinking about doing this for a couple of years now but never thought I could do it. I needed inspiration. I started following blogs than, not the make up or fashion only ones. The regular daily life ones.

Anyways, I hope you guys like my random posts!
I love designing eastern wear, more specifically, Pakistani outfits. I enjoy baking a lot. I love my friends and family.
My blog is life from my point of view. So excited! :)

Thank you in advance for reading! :)