Waar

Waar (Wār; IPA: [ʋɑːr], meaning "The Strike") is a 2013 Pakistani action-drama film directed by Bilal Lashari and written and produced by Hassan Rana. The film features Shaan Shahid, Meesha Shafi, Ali Azmat, Shamoon Abbasi, Ayesha Khan and Kamran Lashari. It is the second highest-grossing Pakistani film after Jawani Phir Nahi Ani. The film is a stylized depiction of events surrounding the war on terror in Pakistan, including the attack on a Police Academy at Lahore in 2009.

Plot

Major Mujtaba Rizvi (played by Shaan Shahid) is a former Pakistan Army officer, who took an early retirement from the service. The plot involves a counter-terrorism operation being conducted in the northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, led by Ehtesham Khattak (played by Hamza Ali Abbasi) and coordinated by his sister, Javeria Khattak (played by Ayesha Khan), an intelligence officer. Ehtesham and Javeria come to know of a major terrorist attack that can only be countered with the help of Major Mujtaba.

Waar 2

Waar 2 is an upcoming Pakistani action thriller film directed and written by Hassan Rana. It is a sequel to the Bilal Lashari's directed 2013 film Waar. The film stars Shaan Shahid. Filming began in June 2015 in London.

Cast

Production

In May 2015, it was revealed that Hassan Rana wrote the script and would direct the sequel film, he also showed interest in casting Ayub Khoso, Adnan Siddiqui, and Humayun Saeed.Shaan Shahid would be returning to reprise his previous role, along with newcomers Bilal Ashraf and Aleeze Nasser also cast in the film. Waqas Rana would also be serving as the producer and Director of Photography of the film, and he revealed that four foreign actors were also cast in the film.

Filming

Waar 2 was previously all set to go into production in 2014. The movie was set be shot in international locations including Russia, Yugoslavia, United Kingdom and Turkey.

Principal photography on the film began in late-June 2015 in London. In August 2015, filming took place at the K2 base camp.

Francis (band)

Francis is a Swedish folk quintet formed in Mora, Sweden in 2006 and currently based in Falun. The band consists of vocalist Petra Mases, drummer Petter Nygårdh, guitarist Jerker Krumlinde, bassist Paulina Mellkvist and keyboardist Oskar Bond. The band was originally conceived as a punk interpretation of American folk music. Francis has gained a following in the DIY community of Sweden as well as in the Scandinavian countries, including the Netherlands, where they performed at the Fabriq Festival in 2012.

Beginnings

Francis has its origins in the DIY scene in Mora. During the break after their first album in 2011, released only in Sweden, the band members experienced several changes in their personal lives as well as changes in the lineup. Due to these changes, the band refrained from putting out a full album until 2016.

2015-Present: Marathon

In October 2015, Francis released their first world-wide single, Follow Me Home, to be featured on their album Marathon. The band collaborated with producer Nicolas Vernhes to create a "crisp, lucid guitar-pop" contrasting with melancholy lyrics. The song focuses on lyrics at first and then shifts focus to the instrumentals. This single met with mostly positive reviews in underground blogs, with one reviewer proclaiming them "a name to remember" and Follow Me Home a "5-minute wonder."

FRANCIS

FRANCIS is an academic bibliographic database maintained by INIST. FRANCIS covers the core academic literature in the humanities and social sciences with special emphasis on European literature.

See also

Characters of Malcolm in the Middle

The following characters had significant roles in the American television comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, which was originally televised from 2000–2006 on the Fox Network.

Main characters

Originally there were four brothers (although Malcolm's oldest brother attended a military school away from home, so Malcolm was still the middle sibling left at home). A fifth son was introduced in the show's fourth season, a boy named Jamie. The boys are, from eldest to youngest: Francis, Reese, Malcolm, Dewey, and Jamie. In the final episode, Lois discovered she was pregnant with a sixth child. In the third season, Francis travels home (to celebrate his father's birthday) with an Alaskan girl named Piama, and reveals that they are married.

During the first season, the writers decided to keep the family's last name a mystery. In the fifth season episode "Reese Joins the Army (1)", Reese uses a fake ID by the name of "Jetson" to lie about his age. In the series finale, "Graduation", Francis' employee ID reads "Nolastname" (or "No Last Name", a joke referring to the fact that the family name was never spoken aloud). In the same episode when Malcolm was introduced to give the graduation speech, the speaker announces Malcolm's name, but microphone feedback makes his surname inaudible, even though he does appear to mouth the phrase "No last name".