Refined films were few, but Srijit Mukherji's Autograph, in Bengali, dealt sensitively with the pressures of media fame, and Peepli Live (Anusha Rizvi, Mahmood Farooqui) spiked its rural comedy with serious issues and social satire.
The tourists recalled Monty Panesar and Sajid Mahmood in place of Ashley Giles and James Anderson, with the spinner making an immediate impact, taking five for 92 as Australia were bowled out for 244.
Khalid Majid, a resident of the city's Hamidiya district described the situation there in a Skype conversation with our colleague Mona Mahmood.
Or is the bold Mazher Mahmood actually in the middle of his biggest sting yet?
The site's general manager, Mahmood Abdulhadi, said there were an estimated 3m users in the Arab world and the number was increasing by the day.
In the week that Panorama hit the headlines after its eagerly-awaited exposé of Mazher Mahmood was postponed for a second time, it has emerged that the weekly programme may not be protected from the proposal aired by director general Tony Hall earlier this year to shakeup in-house TV production.
Babar alleges that he first met Waheed Mahmood at the end of 2001, and later learned he was an al-Qaida supporter.
Reporting team: Nancy Porsia in Zuwara, Libya; Tobias Zick of Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Dakar; Chris Stephen in Tunis; Tom Westcott in Tripoli; Mona Mahmood; Niccolo Zancan of La Stampa in Gavle, Sweden; Ana Carbajosa of El Pais in Madrid; Lizzy Davies in Rome; Javier Caceres of Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Brussels and Kit Gillet in Sofia.
Khyam, Garcia and Hussain are accused of possessing 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser - discovered by police in a storage unit in west London - for terrorist purposes, and Khyam and Shujah Mahmood are charged with possessing aluminium powder, which can also be used to make bombs.
One of the accused, Omar Khyam, had discussed potential attacks on pubs, nightclubs or trains, and it was significant that another, Waheed Mahmood, worked for a major gas and electricity supplier, according to Mr Waters.
Waheed Mahmood stressed that laptops and mobile phones should be disposed of on a regular basis and Khyam and Babar used code in their emails, for example "cigarettes" meant "detonators".
