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The Footprints of Fabric Wholesale: Azam Cloth Market

The shopkeepers of Azam Cloth market pride themselves on, and they like to stress this vehemently, being a part of 'the biggest cloth market in Asia." While snaking your way through the many winding alleys lined with shops of various sizes you do tend to lose track of both time and space. The market is a collage of many small interlinked bazaars where the daylight doesn't always seep in and the damp musty odor of history prevails.

Situated in the walled city of Lahore, the Azam cloth market is the hub that has been handling wholesale distribution of cloth and ready-to-wear for the last six decades. From khaddar to silk, ready- to-wear to clothing fabrics, casual wear to bridal wear, the market has something for every apparel retailer.

According to Mohd Amjad Sheikh, who has been in the wholesale apparel business since 1974, the Azam cloth market caters to a wide customer based both in Pakistan and abroad. "Retailers from all over Pakistan, Dubai, and UK visit us for their stock purchases. However, the recent security issues have had their impact on the business. Our customer base from India and Afghanistan has dwindled to almost zero. We hope once the situation improves retailers from all neighboring countries will find it comfortable to visit us."

The merchants of the market are well versed in the history of the place, and every shopkeeper can recount how when the market was created and named. Marketing near me There was a small market near Wazir Khan Mosque; in 1953 when a road had to be widened the market was shifted to its current location by General Azam who gave his own name to the market. Over the decades, the small market extended and now has numerous interlinked blocks or bazaars all dealing in wholesaling of various types of clothing fabrics and lines.

How many interlinked bazaars are there in the market? There is no consensus as such but gathering from the comments of various shop owners the number must be somewhere between 15 and 20

'It's an Institution.'

All the bazaars of Azam market are linked and managed by a board of directors. "You won't find a more well managed institution in Lahore. We have our own constitution with a specific set of rules. Every bazaar has its own president who in turn is answerable to the president of the board. Elections of the board are held every three years to elect resident of the board. Security and administrative decisions made by the board are binding upon the market community," the business community of the market proudly spells out details of the 'institution.' Fire extinguishers, security guards and clean lanes show an active involvement of the board that runs on self-help basis. Every shop owner pays monthly charges of about 200-300 rupees to form a combined pool that helps meet the maintenance expenses.

Nawab Bazaar: The oldest block of Azam Cloth Market

While it is difficult to explore every bazaar in a single visit, every first time visitor should stroll in the Nawab bazaar to get a feel of the place. Nawab bazaar is the first and the oldest block of Azam cloth market. Its open cool spaces invite the customers to linger and shop at their own pace. The shop owners are friendly and there is an overall ambiance of good cheer.

'What's in the name?'

Two different versions prevail in the market about the history of block's name. One interesting story traces origins of the name to the first generation of business men who started their businesses in this market.

According to this version, this first generation of wholesalers liked to arrive late in the markets and opened their shops around noon. So people started calling them nawabs (nawab connotes a laid-back almost royal attitude) and the market came to be known as Nawab bazaar.

Javed sahib, the president of Nawab bazaar, however, strongly disagrees: "My, father, Haji Nawab Deen, was the first generation of wholesalers who established businesses in this block, and the bazaar is name after my father," he states.

Whatever the real history of the name, the different versions add to the aura of antiquity surrounding the market.

It's a Man's World

The wholesale business is dominated by men. Not only there are no female shop owners but you encounter female customers. Occasionally you can run into a lone female retailer traversing the narrow alleys of the market. Razia is one such brave woman I met while combing through the glittering, colorful shops of women's apparel.

"I have nine children and my husband is a 'home-tailor' who works at his clients' places. To make ends meet, I have started this business. I purchase ready-to-wear female kurtis from this market and my husband takes them to his clients' houses and sells them. We get to save 100 to 200 rupees on every kurta. It isn't much but it helps," Razia explains her 'business model.'

First Time visitors

Whether you are a retailer, a casual visitor, or a customer who wants to get good bargains, try to heading for the market between 9:30 am to 10:30 am. This is the time when the traffic is not too heavy and it is still quiet in the throbbing, congested lanes of the market. Visiting the market early will save you half of the hassle of long traffic jams. The other half, while going back, you will have to bear. Another advantage of visiting the market early is that once you are there you can shop at leisure and will even have time to haggle with the shopkeepers. As the day advances the business activity picks up pace, the market gets too crowded.

Parking your vehicle is now easy as there is a huge parking plaza near the market. However, the plaza doesn't have a lift and once you park the car you will have to walk all the way down and then walk all the way up to get the car. It is bit of an exertion and would help if you are in the mood for some exercise.

Azam Cloth Market is surrounded by many other wholesale and retail markets, and while you are there you can have quick round of the other markets and schedule your next visit to one you like.

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Film The Terminal: Steven Spielberg's Interesting Parody Flick Rediscovered!

I think of it as a cheerful mishap that I found this film named 'The Terminal' (2004) coordinated by Steven Spielberg on a streaming stage. My shock was unimaginable when I saw the class written in the subtleties of the film parody! Indeed, it need not just be my obliviousness about this extraordinary producer; in light of the fact that in the greater part of Spielberg's profiles or filmography the said film is never featured or discussed despite the fact that the film was a business achievement. 'The Terminal' recounts a great story of a person called Viktor Navorski from Easter Europe (showing the Russian Republic) who shows up at New York John F Kennedy air terminal on a confidential mission just to view that as meanwhile his local (fictitious) country Kakrojhia had gone through a tactical overthrow and another administration had dominated. Since the US was at this point to perceive the new government Viktor's identification had become invalid and the air terminal manager removed every one of his archives including the visa declining to permit him enter New York city or to return home. Viktor Navorski, played by, as a matter of fact, the best of entertainers Tom Hanks, can't talk a lot of English and goes through a progression of comical setbacks during his nine-month stay at the terminal. We'll return to the film a piece later.

Steven Spielberg had turned into an easily recognized name in the US after his Timespure blockbuster 'Jaws' in 1975; and in the event that he was as yet not a commonly recognized name in most different nations like India his 'Nearby Experiences of the Third Kind' in 1977, 'Bandits of the Lost Ark' in 1981, 'ET the Extra Earthly' in 1982, his formation of the establishment 'Indiana Jones' from 1984 and his two immense creations 'Jurassic Park' and 'Schindler's Rundown' in 1993 have made him more than that, just about a remarkable person of world film. Spielberg is supposed to be the most economically fruitful head of Hollywood till date with practically every one of his movies accomplishing film industry hit status, basic praise and Foundation Grants designations and grants. He has procured three Oscars two of which are as Best Chief for 'Schindler's Rundown' and 'Saving Confidential Ryan' (1998) and one Best Picture Oscar for 'Schindler's Rundown', aside from 7 selections as Best Chief. His films have acquired an unbelievable 133 Foundation designations and 34 Oscars in different classifications, aside from the BAFTA and Brilliant Globe grants. His other significant honors incorporate Cecil B DeMille Grant and the AFI Life Accomplishment Grant. Steven Spielberg at 74 years old presently has not resigned at this point nevertheless making motion pictures enjoying brief reprieves on occasion.

Watching the 'Jaws' and 'Jurassic Park' had been a most thrilling encounter for most Indians like me and through such movies we could grasp the careful endeavors, frequently putting his own life in extreme danger in the troublesome shooting, taken by the chief no question at all that he made his most memorable film try at the young age of 12 in this way devoting for what seems like forever to the craftsmanship and making world film even more extravagant as well as engaging. Subsequent to laboring for a couple of years in the New Hollywood period that incorporated a few TV Episodes and minor movies for Widespread Studios he got his game-changing break in 'Jaws' in 1975 when he was right beyond 30 years old. Spielberg, legitimately, wouldn't make a spin-off of 'Jaws' as those continuations made by different producers would never match the remarkable unique that actually sends shudders down the spine. He made a spin-off however for 'Jurassic Park' named 'The Lost World-Jurassic Park' in 1997 as the essayist of the first concocted his subsequent book, and that film was likewise a business and basic achievement.

It to some degree follows from the account over that the greater part of us generally considered Spielberg as a serious movie producer who procured tremendous business achievement too for his generally engaging narrating and committed endeavors. We would never potentially envision he could make a film in the lighter kind of parody. Maybe, it was only a trial for this extraordinary producer, and he did it flawlessly too-getting propelled by a genuine occasion in the Paris air terminal, making fascinating characters including a heartfelt point and raising an immense filmset in the lines of the JFK air terminal of New York.

Presently, returning to 'The Terminal', the 2-hour and 9 minutes film doesn't have a solitary dull second stimulating your interesting bones constantly with Tom Hanks staggering alongside his splendidly developed broken Russian or Bulgarian English while taking care of the fixated air terminal boss, the safety officers and the different work area authorities. His personality gets sincerely involved too with an airhostess played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, an Indian cleaner, a woman work area official with whom a container kid was sincerely joined and different other magnificent characters and episodes. Hanks' personality Viktor likewise helps a local of his district out of a knot by his canny utilization of understanding beguiling the startled manager. The film additionally keeps up the tension on what exists in the tin box that Viktor habitually takes out affectionately that the manager who has been bowed after disposing of him either to the police or to the FBI needs to frantically be aware. Such tasty components would be wise to be left for every one of the people who might likewise want to rediscover this parody show film made by one of the unbelievable chiefs makers scholars of world film.

Chinmay Chakravarty is an expert well versed in the imaginative field with more than twenty years of involvement with editorial composition, media co-appointment, film script composing, film naming, film and video making, the board of worldwide film celebrations and altering of books and diaries. Capable in offering proficient types of assistance in these connected fields. Was an official of Indian Data Administration and obsolete from the post of Chief, Press Data Agency, Kolkata in November, 2019. Distributed his most memorable performance book 'Snicker and Let Chuckle' in 2017 and his second book 'The Bleak Driver and Other Stories' in 2021.