Re: Silent Waters
As I already said that the movie do not account for the real events during Ziaul Haq’s period. It is more representative of incidences soon before or after partition in 1947. The writer/ director have unsuccessfully tried to combined two periods. It is true that Zia-ul-Haq was father founder of current jihadi environment when he involved Pakistan in the hell of proxy war between Russia and America. His advisor Akhtar Abdul Rehman totally ill advised that stupid dictator led Pakistan in the direction of destruction and darkened the future of coming generations. Pakistan today now facing wrath from both sides, America and Jihadist. This mardood did not realize that after his death, his jihadi agenda would ultimately result in Pakistan would stand alone with no friends.
JI played key role in twisted Islamisation of laws during this mardood’s rule. Severe persecution including lashes, torture and killing of PPP workers and others including media who opposed this man. Women were dehumanized and paraded naked in the villages in front of public. I still remember when Mehtab Channa/Rashdi a famous TV compare in eighties was banned on TV just because she was not wearing dopatta.
The movie also showed Zia-ul-Haq as villain in treating Sikhs. That is not true. Sikh in Zia-ul-Haq’s time had given special attention and full freedom in visiting their temples in Pakistan. It was known at that time that Zia-ul-Haq was involved in Sikh separation movement. In eighties Sikh started killing Hindus in East Punjab, India blamed Pakistani ISI for the involvement. The uprising was crushed by Indira Gandhi by attacking and killing separatists inside the Golden Temple.
Sikhs were given full cooperation during mardood’s time because of above reason and because he also belonged to East Punjab and wanted to combine East and West Punjab as one to take revenge of 1971 defeat. Hindus and other minorities were persecuted severely in his tenure. Maulana Ariful Hussaini, a Shia leader was killed just only for burning the American flag during his Peshawar rally.
If you want to see a movie which represents twisted application of Islamic laws, then watch “Bol”, a super movie directed by Shoaib Mansoor. The quality of acting and story made this movie much superior than many Indian top movies. A current famous singer Atif Aslam also acted in this movie though I hated his character in destroying the life of a “person” on which theme of whole movie is based. Perhaps this superb Pakistani movie produced through Geo is banned to exhibit in Pakistan.