indeed, sir. I remember your scenes in Ankahi. I believe you were a suitor for Maryam's hand and Shehnaz Sheikh, Jamshed Ansari (late), Behroz Sabzwari conspire to drive you out the door because Behroz and Jamshed are interested in Maryam too. the scenes you participated in were some of the funniest scenes of the drama. it is a pity that PTV doesn't make dramas like Ankahi and Tanhayian any more. however, it is good to see geniuses like Shoaib Mansoor turning their attention to film.
I have a question for Raju Jamil sahib: where is Shehnaz Sheikh these days? and why doesn't she act any more? I believe she is one of the best actresses that ever came out of Pakistan along with the likes of Khalida Riyasat, Roohi Bano, etc. her record speaks for itself - the star of PTV's two greatest dramas - Ankahi and Tanhayian. so, why doesn't she act any more? has no one approached her? it's not fair that an artist as talented as herself is not working any more.
Shehnaz (Sheikh) Seerat...lives in Lahore. She runs an Advert Company with her hubby Seerat..by he name of KARGAR. I posed the same question on Shenny when I last met her at Lahore during Basant. She said she doesn't have time besides she has lost the knack of acting as well. I agree that she was one of the BEST talent Pak Showbiz has ever produced and boy!!! what grrrreatt time we had recodring UN KAHI..and so sweet are the memories that sometimes I get in a total blue mood when I think of my dearest buddy Jimmy (Jashed Ansari) and Saleem Nasir (who played Mamoon's role) not to forget the duo; Late Mohsin Ali and Shirin Khan...the Executive Producers. In my book I am writing on the history of PTV Serials and Dramas of YESTERYEARS...he cast of UN KAHI, UNCLE URFI and KHUDA KI BASTI (in which I got the best suporting actor award in 1970) will have many pages and photos.
On KHALIDA RIYASAT....she was a magic girl!! a real darling to all. An incredible performer--who made her debut in Bakhtiar's "NAAMDAAR" (1975) with Shakil and me as stock artiste with her. She was a wonder of all. Truly an amazing personality in caste and creed. A GRRREATTT artsite by all counts.
In 1981, I was lucky to be casted by Kamal Ahmed Rizvi (ALLAN) for his series "AAP KA MUKHLIS" with ROOHI BANO from Karachi Centre of PTV. It was great to work with this BORN Artiste. Later I did "GHORA GHAAS KHATAA HAI" with her at Lahore Studios direced by Sikandar Shahen. ROOHI after some seismic problems on her health, is gradually recuperating and should be back on your tube soon...though I cant, at this stage, say whether she'll be same Roohi Bano we remember or a changed one.
Why the hell there is no news about its releasing in UK:smack:
this is really like forcing me to change my decision to watch it in cinema and just get pirated DVD
The COPYRIGHT LAW in Pakistan provides that no feature film is to be released on DVD and outside the Country it was produced in…for straight six months.
Getting a pirated DVD is like “killing somone (in this case the producer) softly with his song!”…hence the name of the game is “waiting” here–for those in overseas! unless MSR or his son MIR of GEO decide to release it in UK and the Americas… soon.
The COPYRIGHT LAW in Pakistan provides that no feature film is to be released on DVD and outside the Country it was produced in.....for straight six months.
Getting a pirated DVD is like "killing somone (in this case the producer) softly with his song!".....hence the name of the game is "waiting" here--for those in overseas! unless MSR or his son MIR of GEO decide to release it in UK and the Americas... soon.
KHUDA KE LEEAY...let's end the frustration here!
Cheers-------------RAJU
And do u really think we r gona wait for 6 months for the release of the film and not download it straightway ?
tottally rubbish laws !
thanks zobia…ya I have seen the trailer on Geo in Canada. The only thing is if this movie will be shown on big screen in North America? Obviously Indian movies are now fully dominated even in non-indian theaters…I really hope they show it here.
And do u really think we r gona wait for 6 months for the release of the film and not download it straightway ?
tottally rubbish laws !
Welllll.......first law is that the LAWS are rubbish! that's why they are LAWS to be observed! Funny that being in UK...you talk of LAWS being rubbish...any LAW I mean! There is something called "PRACTICE & LAW" in my profession; BANKING and it's according to the situation that we observe & handle things in our profession...sometimes as "LAW" and most of the times...as "PRACTICE".
I passed your lament to MSR yesterday on "KKL" and there is a possibility that this movie will be released soon in London for which there'll be a launch in big way with entire cast alongside Shoaib Mansoor there....WHERE? I cant say but THERE (in London). I'll be there too as we are off to Scotland for Tasmina & Zulfi Sheikh's yet another serial with good cast; Maria Wasti, Nabeel, Sunita Marshall, Shugufta Ejaz, Qazi Wajid, Tonio & yours truly.
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Khuda Kay Liye pulls crowds to theatre in Pindi
Security threats not an issue for the audience
Maria Tirmizi
Islamabad
It took its time but the film has finally reached Rawalpindi.
Khuda Kay Liye, released throughout the country on July 20 arrived in Rawalpindi’s PAF Cinema on Friday, July 27.
The film pulls you towards the big screen, thanks to Shoaib Mansoor’s credentials and the many star laden accolades it has received. Yet, you can’t deny that you go with certain misgivings. The foremost: what’s the security like at the cinema?
But what was intriguing to observe was that despite the bombs going off around the city and a film like Khuda Kay Liye incurring the wrath of a certain segment of people quite active in the capital, you still could not stop people from going to the cinema to watch a film that promises to be the revival of our film industry.
So it was hardly a surprise that the cinema was packed to capacity. While a thin little man did a quick body search with his bare hands on the long queue of people outside, far from reassuring, it made you think uneasily, “This better be a good film if I’m about to lose a limb or two.”
PAF cinema is not bad at all. Its airconditioners, which weren’t even turned on for Aishwarya’s Bride and Prejudice, were put on full mode for this film, creating a comfortable environment. Families and young girls sat on one side of the gallery; wolf-whistlers on the other. It seemed like the film had already fulfilled its promise of reviving the movie-going culture when people were seen catching up with old schoolmates and family friends they had bumped into, for the first time, at a cinema.
Barely had the film started that applause broke loose, with whistling and some inappropriate hooting. It’s not their fault, one thinks. Our many majajans have nurtured that culture. So one must excuse the poor fellows and wait for them to be finally exposed to some intelligent cinema.
The film rolls on, and slowly and steadily, all preconceived notions shed one by one. Shan…what a brilliant actor we have and how little have we appreciated him, going gaga over the luscious lipped across-the-border variety instead. It does take a good film to bring out the best in an actor and we really don’t want to see Shan dressed up as a Jat anymore!
Iman Ali surprises us with her believable deliverance as a British citizen. All one has to do is to compare her to Priety Zinta trying to pull off being a New Yorker in Kal Ho Na Ho or a British citizen in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. The difference shines brighter than Aishwarya Bachchan’s wedding ring.
Fawad, a breath of fresh air. And all of our veteran PTV actors make us realize what we have and decided to ignore, forget. Thanks to a certain melodramatic saas who was also once a bahu.
Many scenes in the film touch your heart. Lots of people had tears in their eyes. And it is then that we are sadly reminded that we’re not watching a film chronicling the sufferings of a bygone era. We’re living it. Never is that reality more evident than when some fanatics damage property in a scene in the film and we fidget in our seats, looking around for anyone taking inspiration.
Hooting and whistling by those on the ‘other’ side of the gallery refused to die down throughout the film, being especially loud when Fawad’s character promises to ‘be a man’ and have his way with his unwilling bride (finally some familiar ground, they must have thought). But when the girls in Afghanistan beg Iman’s character to teach them English - total silence. It hit a nerve.
‘Bandiya Ho’… what a beautiful song, thanks to Bulleh Shah’s moving poetry! It seemed to sway and linger on in the cinema hall, touching hearts, tugging at their hardness, begging them to melt.
Khuda Kay Liye is an intelligent, thought-provoking film. More so than even Hollywood films, who do decide to make movies about the terrorism phenomenon, yet fail to properly understand the society and culture of the country they’re filming. Lack of research is not something you can accuse Shoaib Mansoor of. Though he shows the high-handedness of the FBI, he also portrays the silent majority of America who rally for Shan’s character’s release.
A small segment of people do not like the film, because they disagree with its message. But we have to remember, a good film isn’t one that everyone has to necessarily agree with. It is just the filmmaker’s personal statement. What matters is how the statement is portrayed, the research, creativity and search for balance. If someone disagrees, they can spend their energies intelligently bringing forward their own views, instead of vandalizing property.
Even in the cinema hall, different people reacted to different parts of the film. Some clapped on the maulvi’s strong statements, others on Naseeruddin Shah’s monologue about music. But at the end of the day, we were all sitting in one hall, entitled to our own views, but not necessarily allowing them to divide us with blood.
Shan’s character speaks of how his love for Usama had taken birth in his filthy little American cell. We pick up a newspaper of our very own city and see a man hold high a bone he picked up from the Lal Masjid rubble with hot tears and murder in her eyes. And we make the connection. Shoiab Mansoor does not only highlight the ills of a distorted, short-sighted version of Islam, but also the root causes that give life to it.
People picked intelligent references from the film. Maimoona, a young girl in her twenties said “I particularly liked the scene when Iman’s character asked the village girl what she would do had she been in her situation. The girl replies: ‘Run away, what else?’ That showed to me that women throughout the world, whatever their background, caste or creed, have a bond, almost like a fraternity, and can relate to each other’s problems.”
Fahad Haroon, a 20-year-old student said, “I really think we should forward this film for an Oscar nomination. It’s way better than the films India sends for Oscar nominations so why shouldn’t we?”
Asad Munir, another student in his early twenties felt that the film should have carried subtitles for people who don’t understand English.
Khuda Kay Liye really does surpass expectations and all those praises we’ve been hearing on our television screens are not empty words. So do go and watch it if you haven’t already
Whats the movie about really? I read the synopsis, but I dont know if it encourages muslims to stand up for themselves and be strong or does it depict muslims as suckups that cannot live on their own unless aided by foreigners? Or is it based on the modernization of Islam?
Whats the movie about really? I read the synopsis, but I dont know if it encourages muslims to stand up for themselves and be strong or does it depict muslims as suckups that cannot live on their own unless aided by foreigners? Or is it based on the modernization of Islam?
Has anyone seen it?
Well read previuos pages, there are two or three reviews posted including mine. Your questions will be answered after reading them. If you still have questions, do let me know and I will answer them.
