Over 55 years after it became the newly-formed Pakistan’s first Oscar submission, AJ Kardar’s Jago Hua Savera (Day Shall Dawn) has been selected for screening at the prestigious Festival de Cannes ...

The press release issued by the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival on October 17, 2016, about dropping Jago Hua Savera from its schedule blamed the “current situation”. Is this nothing but a euphemism for ...

Pakistani film, Jago Hua Savera, which was made in 1959 and recently restored, was hailed as a classic when it was screened at 2016 Cannes film fest. The film, which was to be screened at MAMI this ...

KARACHI: As it has always been with Indo-Pak tensions, the turmoil gives an opportunity to unknowns on either side of the border to conjure up some controversy and bask in the limelight for as long as ...

A black and white arthouse film from Pakistan from 1959 has become the latest casualty of the jingoism that has followed the Uri attack September, in which 19 Army soldiers died. Jago Hua Savera, ...

After a city-based social organisation threatened to protest against the upcoming MAMI Mumbai Film Festival for screening Pakistani film "Jago Hua Savera", the organisers have decided not to showcase ...

Amid the growing tensions between India and Pakistan, the Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival with Star has decided not to screen the Pakistani classic Jago Hua Savera. Amid the growing tensions ...

Pakistan’s Oscar entry for the Best Foreign Film Award, Jago Hua Savera (directed by AJ Kardar) received immense praise after its restored version was screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this ...

Mumbai: After the Jio MAMI Mumbai Festival announced its plan of screening Pakistani film ‘Jago Hua Savera’ under the special section called ‘Restored Classics Section’, a Mumbai-based NGO filed a ...

It was a blast from the past that saw cinema lovers in Kolkata keeping its date with history -- that of watching the Indian premiere of the 1959 Pakistani movie “Jago Hua Savera” (Day Shall Dawn) ...

A 1958 Pakistani film, considered by critics as the best ever made in the country and boasting a curious collaboration with India, is haunted by its spectacularly jinxed past more than half-a-century ...