Here's the link to it if you want to support Pakistani films, would love the support and appreciation:

Tamanna's trailer

It was so exciting to see something that I was a part of on a big screen. So many first times for me this year, I'm just ecstatic. Let's hope that this becomes an awesome part of my life! 

More essays to come soon, although I know they are sometimes really dark, but hey, if I get inspiration to write something nicer, I will. :)

There aren't enough dialysis machines to cater to the staggering number of cases for people who need dialysis. 

What I'm talking about isn't just about how many machines the city has, but also how expensive it is to get one session done. With an average of Rs. 3,500/- (around about $35) per session, I don't understand how people are going to get their loved ones treated. Many patients have to go between two to three times a week, that makes expenses sky rocket. 

Even centres that want to provide free treatment to those who require dialysis cannot help these people with waiting lists that are year long, and the only way to get them out of it is to wait till a current patient on dialysis died, or chose to go to another hospital. 

I can't afford to buy a machine, but I would love to let people know that this is something that a lot of people need, and waiting too long in the line is not an option, if anyone can help hospitals increase their number of machines or help people who require dialysis, please, I urge you to try and help them. 

Wow, it's been such a long time since I posted anything on this blog. Honestly, I feel really bad about it. Last year was kind of an interesting year for me. 2012 was the year of the dragon, and while it is going to be ending soon next month, I thought I should take sometime to write here about how 2012 really turned out to be.

For the love of writing, I told myself that 2012 would be the year I challenged myself, quite a bit. After writing three poems in two months (Jan and Feb), and while working on a theatre project as writer and co-director, I decided that I should write a 100 poems in that particular year. And then, for some unknown reason, I thought why not try writing a poem a day in April.

So, in April, I wrote not 30 poems, but I wrote 44 poems!

I believe that if it weren't for that month of April, I don't think I would've been able to finish my challenge because by the end of July, I was able to get the job that I really, really looked forward to working on. It's not that the job that I was working at at that time was not fun, or stressful, it just wasn't what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a film maker. And I was quickly immersed into the whole business of pre-production of a film, and finding very little time to write poetry, or even short stories (I failed my 10 short stories in 2012 challenge so haha, not everything went well). 

After a month's internship at Concordia Productions, I was offered to join in permanently. It was the best feeling of the year for me at that time. Here I was, a newbie who had no idea of the film process, except for what she saw on the television, being given a chance to work with film makers, who did not judge me based on my background in everything but film. They were working on a film called Tamanna, which had already created buzz at the London Asian Film Festival and other renowned newspapers.

Now I won't go any further into talking about Tamanna, instead I'll move on but I will say that this experience and writing a 100 poems in 2012 were the best highlights of my year. 

Other than that, I also worked on a play. I wrote the script in November 2011. The play was staged in March, I co-directed it with a friend Hamza Ghaznavid. It was a fun little project, and I hope to do more later on, but my focus for now is film. 

So that makes three highlights.

There were others too. But I don't want to start a rant here and so I shall begin to fade this post out:

One of my New Year's resolution is to write more this year. Not only for poetry, not only short stories, or other longer ones, but also try to update this blog more often. I know it has been stale for quite sometime, and I'm hoping that I can find more ideas in my head to write about more things here. Until the next post.