ZIBAHKHANA

This is the brain child of Omar Khan, a Pakistani guy who started up the hotspot ice cream shop. the hotspot is more popular than his film it looks like. No doubt Jonathan Ross or someone like that will champion this in a few months as a - 'zany retro return to cult low budget video nasties but with an urdu flair' - or something depressing like that.

"In Islamabad there was not much by way of cafe culture, no teenage hangouts as such, and young people flocked to the Hotspot. The space itself was decorated like the inside of Omar's head. Lurid movie posters lined the walls; assorted horror props hung from the ceiling. The soundtrack was a careful mix of period funk, nightclub numbers from swinging Lahore, Bombay disco from the 1980s, and the occasional Blondie track. Thus emboldened, Omar and Ali started publishing the Scream, a newsletter about ice cream and movies that would grow into a full-fledged fanzine devoted to "Horror and Cult, Trash and Z Grade" cinema. Improbably enough, the formula was a success. Today there are five Hotspots, including a flagship store with an expanded menu of organic dishes and a bookshop at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, where the country's major international cricket matches are played." (from Bidoun)