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The stars and creatives of Slackistan walked the red carpet at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The Slackistan team of Hammad Khan, Aisha Linnea Akhtar, Shahana Khan Khalil and Adnan Malik walked the red carpet with the Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Clive Owen, Gerard Depardieu, Director Oliver Stone, Bollywood actress Preity Zinta and other stars for the first day of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi.
Hammad Khan, Aisha Akhtar, Shahana Khalil & Adnan Malik at the red carpet of the ADFF.
Shahana Khalil & Aisha Akhtar at the red carpet of the ADFF.
Shahana Khalil & Aisha Akhtar work the red carpet at the ADFF.
Shahana Khalil, wearing a Pashmina Ahmed creation, does a TV interview for Slackistan at the ADFF.
Images of cast and crew in attendance at the World Premiere of ‘Slackistan‘ at the Raindance Film Festival, Apollo Cinema in London on Thursday 7th October 2010.
Photos : Zana Aslam Khan
By Shabnam Mahmood
BBC Asian Network
Islamabad is the setting for British director Hammad Khan’s first film Slackistan, a low budget independent feature looking at Pakistan’s young and privileged as they drift around in a world of dating, drinking and parties despite the terror attacks on their city.
“On a personal trip to the country I realised this was a story right under our noses to tell about young people out there,” says Khan.
Khan’s wife Shandana Ayub, from north London, has co-written and produced the movie.
“For someone who doesn’t know Pakistan at all, the images they’ll see on TV is of bombs and bad people – but that’s not the kind of Pakistan we know,” she says.
Slackistan: A new look at Islamabad,
indie music and individuality
Instep Today speaks to Hammad Khan,
the director of the upcoming film Slackistan
Saba Imtiaz
The Slackistan trailer has been discussed and dissected widely. The story of young adults trying to discover themselves in a rapidly changing Islamabad has garnered a lot of interest in Pakistan and abroad. Directed by the London-based Pakistani filmmaker Hammad Khan, Slackistan may just be the most relevant film for young people who find themselves searching for their identity in the socio-political climate. Instep Today speaks with the filmmaker…
We all know about the legend Rohail Hyatt for the services he has provided to the music industry of Pakistan since the times of Vital Signs. The Vital Signs which gave us one of the best patriotic songs of the world, Dil Dil Pakistan (ranked 3rd in BBC Top ten list) and Rohail Hyatt which gave us Coke Studio, another reason to be proud of Pakistan. The son, Danial Hyatt continues what Rohail had started. We had seen Danial Hyatt doing the animations and visuals for Coke Studio but this is the first time the music by Danial is coming out and that too for Pakistan. Slackistan is a film by Hammad Khan & Shandana Ayub to revive the image of Pakistan. The film will be featuring tracks by Mole, Kominas, Adil Omar and Uzair Jaswal. OST of the movie is going to be “Pink Moving Objects” by Mole, a band by Danial Hyatt, Faizan Riedinger, Amman Mushtaq and Habib. The track is amazing and goes to one of my all time favorite tracks. I am trying to get the track for you folks really soon.
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Aisha Akhtar (Aisha) and Shahana Khalil (Zara)
Aisha Akhtar (Aisha) and Shahbaz Shigri (Hasan)
Ali Rehman (Sheryar) and Shahbaz Shigri (Hasan)
Osman Butt (Saad) and Shahbaz Shigri (Hasan)
Adnan Malik (Owais) and Shahbaz Shigri (Hasan)
Aisha Akhtar (Aisha) and Shahbaz Shigri (Hasan)
By Riazat Butt
A few hundred miles from Pakistan’s Badlands, Islamabad is the setting for Hammad Khan’s new low-budget indie flick. So why does it feel like smalltown America?
Visitors to Islamabad, the small but perfectly formed capital of Pakistan, could be forgiven for thinking that the only things to rock the place were terrorist attacks.
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