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Indus Blues bags nomination at Jaipur International Film Festival
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Jawad Sharif’s Indus Blues bagged multiple nominations as well as some awards at international film festivals earlier this year. While the trailer was released recently and the film is expected to screen across Pakistan next month, it has another feather...
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Indus Blues (WINNER – GIFF Grand Jury Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature)
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In Pakistan, a country riddled with political turmoil, economic challenges, and social identity crisis, musicians and instrument craftsmen find it hard to survive and sustain their art. They also have to deal with the fact that being a music performer...
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‘Indus Blues’ wins big at Jaipur international movie competition
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Jawad Sharif’s film Indus Blues has won the awards for first-class Documentary feature and first-class Cinematography in the feature Documentary categories on the 11th Jaipur international film festival. Indus Blues is precise for raising consciousness about the disappearing folks musical gadgets in Pakistan,...
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Indus Blues wins two major awards at Jaipur International Film Festival
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The Pakistani documentary picked up the Best Documentary Feature and Best Cinematography accolades. The Pakistani documentary picked up the Best Documentary Feature and Best Cinematography accolades Pakistani documentary Indus Blues directed by filmmaker Jawad Sharif has won the Best Documentary Feature and...
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‘Indus Blues’ trailer reminisces fading folk musical instruments of Pakistan
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Indus Blues drags its audience’s attention to all the endangered instruments from the various regions of Pakistan together with the remaining craftsmen who still make them and the master musicians who still play them. This Jawad Sharif’s cinematic zooms into every nook and corner...
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Pakistani film ‘Indus Blues’ makes it to international film festival nominations
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With Indus Blues being a cinematic based on the forgotten music of Pakistan, as it’s tagline quotes, this Jawad Sharif’s project has made it to the nominations for Best Documentary Film award at international film festival this year. Having taken...
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Trailer of Indus Blues launched
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After picking up a nomination for Best Documentary Film at Regina International Film Festival (RIFF) earlier this year, Indus Blues, a documentary film by Jawad Sharif that traces the stories of forgotten folk music of Pakistan, the loss of multiculturism, traditions that...
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Indus blues nominated for RIFFA
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  Indus Blues, the first feature documentary of director Jawad Sharif, has been nominated for the International Feature Documentary Award on its world premiere at Regina International Film Festival. In Pakistan, a country riddled with political turmoil, economic challenges, social...
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Film review: Indus Blues
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The film Indus Blues is a magical ride down the road of our rich cultural diversity and heritage. It takes our soul to the highest points of delight and serenity, where it makes us feel the beauty of the life...
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‘Indus Blues’ trailer explores the dying musical heritage of Pakistan
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For a country that shares a rich heritage of music with the Subcontinent, Pakistan has seen its fair share of threats to the existence of music in the country. Now, exploring and analysing exactly this phenomena of ‘dying’ music and...
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