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Pakistan International Screen Awards
Pakistan International Screen Awards, also known as PISA, is an annual award ceremony that honours excellence in Pakistani television, film, fashion, music and digital industry. History In 2019, Faisal Khan, the executive producer of the Awards, announced that the first Pakistan International Screen Awards will be held at the Coca-Cola Arena in United Arab Emirates. Ceremonies Categories TBA Jury The jury of PISA includes Frieha Altaf, Jawed Sheikh Jawed Sheikh (also spelled Javaid and Javed; born 8 October 1954) is a Pakistani actor, film director and producer who works in Lollywood and Bollywood. He is best known for working in the Hindi films ''Om Shanti Om'', '' My Name Is Anthony Go ..., Saher Sheikh, Alina Talha, Faraz Hamidi, Faisal Javed Khan, Suhail Abdullatif Ibrahim Galadari, Maria Faisal, Waqar Zaka and Omar Alavi. References {{Reflist External links Instagram Pakistani television awards Pakistani film awards Awards established in 2020 2020 estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to India–Pakistan border, the east, Afghanistan to Durand Line, the west, Iran to Iran–Pakistan border, the southwest, and China to China–Pakistan border, the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasir Hussain
Yasir Hussain ( ur, ) is a Pakistani screenwriter, actor, playwright and host from Islamabad best known for his comic roles. He hosted '' The After Moon Show'' on Hum TV. He is also known for playing the antagonist in the 2018 social drama ''Baandi''. Life and career Born into a Rajput family from Azad Kashmir, he's the youngest in a family of twelve siblings, including a sister who's a Dubai-based singer, Schumaila Hussain, and who has more recently gained attention for singing the OSTs of dramas '' Muqabil'' and '' Khamoshi'', while she has also done works for Lollywood and Bollywood, and a brother who's a scriptwriter. Hussain remain associated with Kopycats Production as they produced some of the great plays for theatre which were written by Anwar Maqsood like ''Half Plate'', ''Pawney 14 August'', ''Sawa 14 August'' and ''Saichin'' and the most popular ''Aangan Terha'' in which Yasir Hussain played the role of Akbar which was originally played by late Saleem Nasir. Hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waqar Zaka
Waqar Zaka is a Pakistani television host, activist, and cryptocurrency expert/entrepreneur. Early life According to Zaka, he is 2008-09 batch Civil Engineer of NED University of Engineering & Technology. Zaka started his career from Indus Music. After earning fame as VJ, he started hosting a TV reality show ''Living on the Edge''. Waqar then created and hosted reality shows ''XPOSED'', ''King of Street Magic'', ''Desi Kudiyan'' and ''The Cricket Challenge'' aired on ARY Musik. During the 2013 Pakistani general election, Zaka ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Karachi NA-253 constituency, but was unsuccessful and secured only 31 votes out of the 211,768 total votes cast. Zaka claims he ran to demonstrate how to run for election for his show ''Main Banoonga Minister''; he stated that this was "the only entertaining way of telling our youth how to be a part of the system". He ran on a platform of prioritizing and improving access to entertainment and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faisal Javed Khan
Faisal Javed Khan is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the Senate of Pakistan, since March 2018. He was also elected as Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting. Senator Faisal Javed Khan is the most followed Senator in Pakistan on Twitter. Political career Faisal Javed Khan began his political career in 1996 with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He has hosted more than 500 PTI political rallies across Pakistan and known as the "Voice of PTI". As of February 2018, he was serving as a member of the core and central executive committees of the PTI and its central additional secretary information. Khan has also campaigned for PTI Chief Imran Khan in 1997, 2002, 2013 and 2018 general elections. Faisal Javed Khan spoke at the European Parliament as a part of Parliamentarians from European Union member states and 18 Asian countries in the two day Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) meetings that debated the environmental challenges fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jawed Sheikh
Jawed Sheikh (also spelled Javaid and Javed; born 8 October 1954) is a Pakistani actor, film director and producer who works in Lollywood and Bollywood. He is best known for working in the Hindi films ''Om Shanti Om'', '' My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves '', ''Namastey London'', etc. Career Born in Rawalpindi, Jawed Sheikh made his acting debut in the Lollywood film ''Dhamaka'', written by Pakistani writer Ibn-e-Safi released on 14 December 1974. He acted in over 100 films in Urdu, Sinhala and Punjabi. He has also appeared in many television serials which have aired on PTV, Hum TV, Geo Entertainment and A-Plus. The first film he directed was ''Mushkil'', released in 1995. In 2002, he directed ''Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa'', in which he also played a supporting role. In 2005, he switched to acting in Bollywood films and appeared in films like '' Shikhar'' (2005) and ''Jaan-E-Mann'' (2006). In 2007 he appeared in ''Namaste London'', ''Om Shanti Om'' and the Pakistani film ''Mein Ek Din Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieha Altaf
Frieha Altaf is a Pakistani actress, former model, host, film director, producer and human rights activist. She is the CEO of her own Catwalk Event Management and Sahil which she founded in 1989. She also worked in classic dramas '' Rozi'' and '' Kohar''. Frieha also worked in many films ''Lahore Se Aagey'', '' Wajood'', ''Baaji'' and ''Parey Hut Love''. Early life She completed her education from US and later returned to Pakistan in 1986 in Karachi there she worked as a painter and sculptor during a exhibition she was asked by a modelling agent to model for a adverstising and she agreed. Frieha's mother Yasmeen was a model in 1960s. Frieha also went to Canada there she studied fashion design while also teaching there at Barbizon Institute and got a diploma in fashion design. Career Frieha started modelling at age 18 before going to USA and she also did theater and stage plays. Frieha's was paired with supermodel Atiya Khan for a jewellery shoot. In 1986 during the match b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasay Chaudhry
Vasay Chaudhry ( Punjabi, ur, ; born on 12 November 1981) is a Pakistani screenwriter, actor, director, producer, host, and comedian. He is best known for writing sitcoms and comedy-dramas for Pakistani televisions. He is also known for writing films. He wrote Main Hoon Shahid Afridi and Jawani Phir Nahi Ani. While Mai Hoon Shahid Afridi was an average success, Jawani phir Nahe ani went on to become the highest grossing film of Pakistan cinema and broke all the previous Box office records while earning more than 490 million at the box office. He also wrote Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2, which was released on 2018 Eid al-Adha and broke the all time biggest box office grosses record.It also went on to become the First Pakistani film to make 700 Million rupees worldwide. Chaudhry is also known for hosting the comedy show, Mazaaq Raat, on Dunya News since 2015. His name is sometimes misspelled as ''Wasay'', ''Wassay, Wesay'' or ''Vassay'' in print and electronic media. Biography Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Pakistan International Screen Awards
The 1st Pakistan International Screen Awards, known as PISA 2020, was an award ceremony held on 7 February 2020 at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. ''Parey Hut Love'' won the most awards for a film, with 5 wins, while ''Meray Paas Tum Ho'' was most award-winning TV series by 7 wins. Winners and nominees Nominees for PISA 2020 were announced on 24 January 2020. Voting was done for the awards and there was no jury. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. Films Television Fashion Social media Lifetime Achievement Controversies PISA Awards has been described as a "fraud scam". Nabeel Zafar of ''Bulbulay'' criticized PISA and told that his name was being used to promote the event. He also revealed that the organizers stopped communicating before the events and tickets were not given to him. Along with Nabeel, there were more than forty celebrities faced the same issue. Many other celebrities such as Osman Khalid Butt, Nadia Afgan, and many others c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehwish Hayat
Mehwish Hayat (born 6 January 1988) is an Pakistani actress who primarily works in Urdu films and former television. She made her debut in film with comedy ''Jawani Phir Nahi Ani'' (2015) and later went on to ''Actor in Law'' (2016). Hayat is since starred in comedy ''Punjab Nahi Jaungi'' (2017), ''Load Wedding'' (2018) and ''London Nahi Jaunga'' (2022) all of which rank among one of highest-grossing Pakistani films. 2012 romantic drama series ''Meray Qatil Meray Dildar'' marked a significant turning point in Hayat's career, earning her praise and nomination for Best Actress at the Lux Style Awards. She later portraying of a strong headed in Kashif Nisar's acclaim series '' Kami Reh Gayi'' (2013). She achieved further success by featuring in four of Momina Duraid's romantic dramas—'' Phir Chand Pe Dastak'' (2011), '' Mirat-ul-Uroos'' (2012), ''Ishq Mein Teray'' (2013), ''Ru Baru'' (2014) and Anjum Shahzad's highly successful family drama '' Kabhi Kabhi'' (2013). Her last te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Pakistan International Screen Awards
The 2nd Pakistan International Screen Awards, officially known as PISA 2021, were held on 5 November 2021 in Dubai. ''Pyar Ke Sadqay'' won the most awards, with 3 awards. Film nominations were not announced as no films were released in the country due to Covid–19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified .... Winners and nominees Nominees for PISA 2021 were announced on 6 September 2021. For the first time, jury categories were introduced. Television Music Fashion Digital content References {{reflist Pakistani television awards Pakistani film awards 2021 film awards 2021 television awards 2020s in Dubai November 2021 events in the United Arab Emirates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |