“Sweet Heaven” says Newsline on Hot Spot’s “Operation Karachi”
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The Hot Spot THING Reaches Karachi! This thing keeps on rolling, a lot like The Blob in the classic 1950s horror flick. We bring our touch of madness and funky tunes to Karachi, along with ice cream made exactly the same way as in Islamabad…
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered! Bubonic Films Snaps up Cult Classic Spoof AURAT RAJ (1979) Bubonic Fims snapped up Worldwide Rights to Rangeela’s madcap spoof-satire fantasy from 1979 which deserved a wider audience. We got hold of what is likely to be the last remaining 35mm film…
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Bubonic Films Rescues & Acquires Rights to Forgotten Pakistani “Dracula” Film The Hot Spot’s subsidiary Bubonic Films acquired the Worldwide Rights to a long-lost and forgotten Pakistani “Dracula” film from 1967. Together with The British Company Mondo Macabro, we set about restoring and re-issuing the…
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The Hot Spot’s Hand-Painted Pakistani Movie Posters Exhibition at The Commonwealth Institute, London. This Poster exhibition was a dream come true, but making it happen was quite the opposite. Transporting dozens of heavy canvas posters from Royal Park to The Commonwealth Insitute was easy in…
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Someone With a Sense of Humour at Dawn Ranks The Hot Spot’s Crazy Website as one of Pakistan’s Top 10 The Website was an extension of the Printed Magazine we had started called The Scream. Except it allowed us to express so much more of our…
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The Hot Spot Opens in Lahore After a step here, a sidestep, and a wrong turn or two, we finally arrived at our destination at an unbuilt building and were to become the first “kids on the block” at T Block. We opened quietly, with…
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Going Underground! Having been unceremoniously dumped from our previous location yet honoured to be replaced by the groundbreaking “The Cool Spot”, we found refuge underground. Our “Basement Shop” was featured on Dawn’s front page. Please note, not a cellphone in sight.
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Islamabad is hit by a wave of culture and art like never before as very imaginatively named “The Cool Spot” replaces “The Hot Spot”. Islamabad underwent an overnight Cultural Revolution and transformed itself into a hub of artistic activity like never witnessed before. Artists, Musicians,…
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The Chai Shoppe @ The Hot Spot Over the years, the F7 Gol Market area had gained a reputation as being cursed among Islamabad’s property dealer community. In the 1980s, a prominent, well-connected family started Islamabad’s attempt at “Fine Dining” with an upmarket restaurant designed…