Komal Rizvi: Pakistan's answer to Rihanna

Ten years ago, Komal Rizvi was a Pakistani pop star. Now, after a failed marriage, she's back with a reality show on Pakistan MTV that follows her attempts to re-launch a music career in Karachi and break into the film business in Bollywood.

Pakistan is a deeply conservative country, where there are no bars or nightclubs and where it is considered inappropriate for women to smoke or show cleavage. "I'm personally not going to be showing too much skin," Rizvi told The Wall Street Journal. "I actually think it's sexier to leave something to the imagination."

In her first music video in a decade, "Chahiye", which means "I want", Rizvi is testing the limits of what is culturally acceptable. If people don't like her music or her style, she says, she's ready to join the long list of Pakistani stars who have found success singing on Bollywood soundtracks. The most famous is Atif Aslam, now a household name in India.