#Sarwat Gilani

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Joyland (2022)

Directed by Saim Sadiq

Cinematography by Joe Saade

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Sunday funpost (not Tenoch related, but by association)

I don't think these women know..but Ana Brenda (Mexico) has a literal twin who also happens to be an actress, Sarwat Gilani (Pakistan). I swear I used to be so confused when I saw the two of them. Tried my best to get pictures that look comparable!

I guess you have to be famous if you're this pretty!

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Sarwat Gilani

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Joyland

directed by Saim Sadiq, 2022

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JOYLAND:

Man takes a dream job

Has eyes set on trans singer

All the lonely folks

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Pakistan actress

Sarwat gilani her mother side is Nawab Of Manavadar distant related to Parveen Babi

SHAIKH OF MANGROL, NAWAB OF JUNAGADH, NAWAB OF RAMPUR, NAWAB OF BHOPAL, NIZAMS OF HYDERABAD, NAWAB OF MANAVADAR.

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WATCHED IN 2023:

جوائے لینڈ Joyland (2022), dir. Saim Sadiq

ALINA KHAN as BIBA ALI JUNEJO as HAIDER RASTI FAROOQ as MUMTAZ SARWAT GILANI as NUCCHI

"you really think if you do

what you want to,

it'll lead to your funeral?"

"most definitely."

[cristalconnors]

ENSEMBLE

Shortlisted: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt / Earth Mama / May December / Poor Things / War Pony

THE NOMINEES ARE:

BEAU IS AFRAID

Casting by: Julie Breton and Jim Carnahan, Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Parker Posey, Zoe-Lister Jones, Kylie Rogers, Richard Kind, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Armen Nahapetian, Julia Antonelli

JOYLAND

Casting by: Uncredited, Starring: Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani, Salmaan Peerzada, Sohail Sameer, Ramiz Law, Honey Albela, Priya Usman Khan

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Casting by: Ellen Lewis, Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, Jason Isbell, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Scott Shepherd, Brent Langdon, Everett Waller, Talee Redcorn, Yancey Red Corn, Tatanka Means, Tommy Schultz, Sturgill Simpson, Ty Mitchell, Gary Basaraba, Charlie Musselwhite, Pat Healy, Steve Witting, Steve Routman, Gene Jones, Jack White, Barry Corbin, Randy Houser, Pete Yorn, Katherine Willis

TRENQUE LAUQUEN

Casting by: Uncredited, Starring: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Elisa Carricajo, Verónica Llinás, Juliana Muras, Cecilia Rainero

AND THE CRISTAL GOES TO...

TÓTEM

Casting by: Lila Avilés and Gabriela Cartol, Starring: Naíma Sentíes, Montserrat Marañón, Marisol Gasé, Saori Gurza, Teresita Sánchez, Mateo García Elizondo, Juan Francisco Maldonado, Iazua Larios, Alberto Amador

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Ali Junejo in Joyland (Saim Sadiq, 2022)

Cast: Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani, Salmaan Peerzada, Sohail Sameer, Sania Saeed, Ramiz Law. Screenplay: Saim Sadiq, Maggie Briggs. Cinematography: Joe Saade. Film editing: Saim Sadiq, Jasmin Tenucci. Music: Abdullah Siddiqui. 

Haider (Ali Junejo) is a milquetoast, serving as factotum to everyone in the large household in Lahore, including his father (Salmaan Peerzada), his older brother, Saleem (Sohail Sameer), his sister-in-law, Nucchi (Sarwat Gilani), and their daughters. While his wife, Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq), works, he stays home, unable to find a job. When we first see Haider he is being pressed into service to take Nucchi to the hospital on his motorbike because she is about to give birth to another daughter. And then things change: Haider finds a job, and it's Mumtaz's turn to stay home -- though she really doesn't want to -- and cater to the family's needs. And so begins Saim Sadiq's prize-winning debut feature, a comic story that turns tragic in its course. Haider's chief problem is with the job he has found: backup dancer to a performer in a musical revue. Her name is Biba (Alina Khan), and she's transgender. At first, Haider tells the family that he's a stage manager, but the truth emerges. Everyone realizes that there's not much they can do about it as long as he's bringing in money, so he's allowed to continue. Haider is no dancer, but under Biba's tutelage he gets by, and soon he becomes a favorite of hers. There the complications really begin. Joyland reminded me of the Italian comedies of the 1960s by directors like Pietro Germi and Mario Monicelli that centered on a traditional society's conflict with contemporary ways of looking at the world. Sadiq's Pakistan is like their Sicily, but Joyland turns serious in ways that those films don't. It's a film that maybe doesn't quite set up its turn from comic to serious well enough, but the splendid performances make up for its flaws. 

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Sarwat Gilani’s Shocking Confession About Her Daughter

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[ad_1] Sarwat Gilani will be headlining the opening project, titled Farar, reports Variety. The show is a six-part web series that will premiere at the 14th annual Chicago South-Asian Film Festival on September 23, 2023.  Directed by New York-based, Pakistani television and film director Mehreen Jabbar, the series also stars Mariam Saleem of Ek Jhoothi Love Story fame and Maha Hasan.  As per the official poster for the series that was unveiled recently, the two will fulfill leading roles alongside Gilani. Farar was created in collaboration with producers Umnia Iftikhar, credited for producing the short film The Desert Journey, and Shailja Kejriwal who is the chief creative officer of special projects at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.  Not much has been revealed about the storyline, with just a short synopsis informing potential viewers that the series will revolve around the friendship between the three main female characters and their navigation through life’s various challenges.  The series will give us an insight into the lives of widowed hairdresser Sabrina as she struggles with the difficulties of being in a complicated relationship, aspiring actor Tanya as she grapples with her body-image issues, and ambitious track and field runner Huma as she resists societal pressures to get married.  We can expect their individual tales to intertwine at different points throughout the course of the drama series, delving into possible themes of heartbreak, grief, love, sisterhood, empowerment, and so much more against the hustling and bustling backdrop of one of Pakistan's biggest metropolitan cities, Karachi.  After riding the towering wave of success of Joyland receiving a standing ovation and winning a jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the film being shortlisted for the Oscars, Gilani is starring in yet another project that is bound to attract international audiences and wide-reaching appreciation, especially across India and Pakistan.  “As an actor, being part of Farar has been an incredible journey of exploration and dedication. This show is not just a story for us; it’s a piece of our souls, a representation of the rich emotions that connect us as humans,” shared Gilani on her experience of working on the much-awaited web series. [ad_2]

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Mahira Khan, Sarwat Gilani, Nimra Bucha return to television with Yaar Julahay : Bollywood News

Yaar Julahay, a series of dramatic readings that bring to life stories of legendary Urdu and Hindi writers by some of Indian subcontinent’s best-known writers including Gulzar, Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Munshi Premchand, Amrita Pritam among others is set to be aired on Zindagi’s DTH services Tata Sky, Dish TV, D2H and Airtel, starting this weekend. Since its launch in May 2023, Zindagi…

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Joyland (2022), Saim Sadiq’s crushing debut and the first Pakistani film to be shortlisted for the Oscars, is imbued with a crisis of space. There never seems to be enough room. Not in the Rana household, the narrative kernel of the outing, where the intimacy of a married couple is compromised by the presence of a child sleeping with them. Not in the erotic theater, where a transgender dancer struggles to headline her own set. Not even in a close-walled residence, where an expression of female desire is brought to submission by an intrusive pair of eyes. 

This paucity is physical and metaphorical; the urge to fit in within this lack is personal and private. Sadiq frames the story around this admixture of dearth and desire, arguing through his film the world’s tendency to amplify the need to belong while designing it as a cautionary tale of belonging. 

Written by Sadiq and Maggie Briggs, Joyland focuses on a Lahore-based middle-class family. It is helmed by a wheelchair-addled patriarch and includes his two sons, Saleem (Sohail Sameer) and Haider (Ali Junejo). Each is starkly different than the other. The former is an alpha male, eager to extend his lineage with a son. Haider, shouldering responsibilities at home, is diffident. Even their marriages are contrasting. The relationship between Saleem and Nucchi (Sarwat Gilani) brims with inequality, no different from an orthodox union. Haider and Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq) are close. She works at a beauty parlor, he is unemployed. Their alliance, largely asexual in nature, comes across as consensual companionship. It’s why when Haider is hired as a background dancer at an erotic theater and his father decides for Mumtaz to quit her job, she looks to him for support. Haider opposes but gives in. 

Since its premiere at Cannes in 2022, the film has been making waves for its LGBTQ+ themes, the appeal accentuated by the first-ever inclusion of a transgender actor (Alina Khan) in a major Pakistani feature although the country legally recognized the community in 2009. A detail such as this and the narrative shift which enfolds Haider falling for the character, Biba preempts the transgressive love story to hijack the main plot. Love, after all, has traditionally served as the text for conflict and subtext for approval. The filmmaker’s brilliance lies in bypassing tropes to render a critique of the cornering labels of identity. 

Subjected to humiliation, Biba yearns for gender-affirming surgery to approximate her true identity. Joyland acknowledges her desire but also examines the stifling existence of those who already are. Mumtaz becomes the face of oppression. On paper, she’s who Biba wants to be — a woman who enjoys social acceptance. Except, the jagged edges of gender have bruised Mumtaz. Haider is no less wounded from being emasculated for his gentility. Through assured filmmaking and compelling performances, Sadiq highlights the restrictions embedded in the coveted idea of belonging. 

During its runtime, Joyland unfolds as a reiteration of patriarchy that necessitates performing gender, and, thus, robs joy of inhabiting it. The film emerges as distinctly South Asian with a universal core, espousing a cogent commentary: When the world is attuned to defining identity in boxes, there will never be enough space. In such a case, Sadiq insists, the desire to belong is fated to remain as a longing to be.