Asim Abbasi Asim Abbasi has done what no filmmaker has been able to do this year. For all the films that released this year, it is Asim Abbasi who has excited critics and fans alike. It isn’t because of the star-studded cast featuring Fawad Khan.
Or just that. Abbasi’s past work ( ) has convinced Pakistani drama and cinema aficionados as well as naysayers that he has (a) the talent to tell stories in a fashion that is stylistically different, (b) his ideas are strong and he has the ability to create complex narratives and (c) his work is cerebral but easy to understand. Dog Days of Summer This summer’s scorching heat takes “dog days” literally.
It’s brutal, especially for regions with no electricity, forcing people onto sweltering streets at 3 am. Humidity and high temperatures are bad enough, but add power outages, and the situation becomes unbearable. Heatstroke deaths rise with no home comfort possible.
These are true dog days, particularly for those enduring hours without electricity. Emmys Ah, the Emmys. The award show that’s about as predictable as a toddler with a juice box - one minute sunshine and smiles, the next, a sugary explosion all over the carpet.
For every nomination they nail, they whiff on ten others with the grace of an ostrich on roller skates. Sure, they sprinkled a few nominations where they belong, but somehow, inexplicably, Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman got lost in the Emmy shuffle. Did their characters vanish into a plot hole so deep i.