I think this movie deserves a thread of its own. Did you guys see the movie when it was shown for Eid?
What did you think of it?
I thought it was the crappiest piece of cinema…like ever. Jeez. I couldn’t even watch the whole thing since it was that bad.
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^ you and your overexcitement....
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what channel was it shown on?
And anymore details about the movie, I have never heard of it.
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I saw Laaj two years back ina theatre in Karachi and it was a more of a good experience than bad, coz I was bored in some sequences while admired the stuff in others. The print quality was excellent, I really dont know what print they showed on television coz the one in the cinemas was just as good or as bad as any western film i've seen. The sound quality was so good too, everyone acted well though the film could have been better edited and some of the camerawork was really shoddy too.
I noticed a certain member [who has also posted in this thread] objected to the Pathan's stance on the British colonial rulers. Well she definitely has the right to her opinion, but people must not be so stupid to interpret history through their own personal experience. The Pathans objected and resisted everything that the British brought to India, including the colonial culture and way of life, and the Pathans have their own dictinct philosphy on life which also clashed with the brits. This was part of the basic premise of Laaj. And then keeping in mind that emotions and anti-colonial feelings were at their peak at that point in time, it's only fair for a character in Laaj to say something which conveys all this. But some people choose to be dumb and take it all too personally!
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I think that was me. I was more turned off by the composition of the dialogue than the content of it truthfully. The sentences were constructed in basic every day Urdu language. The dialogues were not remotely poetic or dramatic. They fell flat and peekhay.
I just don't think pakistanis know how to write movie scripts. Writing a movie script has its own format. And the writers writing these scripts are used to writing for dramas. It just screws the effect up.