I watched a few clips of the movie on DM Digital, the sound and picture quality of pakistani movies has vastly improved. Has any1 any info on this movie?
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Lollywood’s leading director Syed Noor and actor turned producer Saima’s much-hyped film ‘Majajan’ is scoring big at the box office. Compared to recent releases, the movie seems to have captured the imagination of women. So the movie’s charm for the entire family is likely to drive it towards being a mega-hit.
This is a tragic love story, and its star cast includes Shan, Saima, Madiha Shah, Shafqat Cheema, Rashid Mehmood, Saud, Iktikhar Thakur and Adeeb.
Syed Noor is essentially a romantic man. This romanticism finds expression in most of his work and ‘Majajan’ is no exception and to make it was Syed Noor’s passion.
According to Noor, whose writer wife Rukhsana has done the script - the inspiration behind the theme comes from the famous mystic Baba Bulleh Shah’s renditions on ishq (love). This is perhaps the first time that a Lollywood director has turned a mystic theme into a full-blown blockbuster.
The movie is also Saima’s debut as a producer, though she continues to rule the roost as the leading lady as well. To turn it into a masterpiece, Saima has at no point cut corners. Good family entertainment is now rarely produced by Lollywood, and Reema’s ‘Koi Tujh Sa Kahan’, Javed Sheikh’s Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa’ and Shehzad Rafique’s ‘Salahkein’ are indeed exceptions. Majajan is up there with them in terms of its appeal. If it ends up inspiring others to make similar flicks, Lollywood may turn the corner yet again.
The entire movie is about Shan and Saima. In contrast with his image, Shan is a soft lead in this moive. Both Saima and Shan have worked together dozens of times, but because of its purely romantic theme this flick is different. An already married Syedzada, played by Shan, falls for the looks and voice of a poor village singer Tari. Tari has also loves Syedzada but conscious of her lower caste, she refrains from admitting it. Bulleh Shah’s theme of ishq is a source of inspiration for Syedzada, and he dances like a malang. This melts Tari’s heart.
Madiha Shah, making a comeback after a few years in the wilderness, plays the jilted wife excellently. There are 10 songs in this film, about four more than the norm, probably because a romantic movie required these many. Composer is Zulfikar Ali while the lyricists are Aqeel Ruby, Rukhsana Noor, Khursheed Kamal and Khawaja Pervaiz. The songs are mostly situational and pretty, reviving the memory of musical hits ‘Pattan’, ‘Mukhrra’, ‘Naji’, ‘Ishq-e-Laila’, ‘Yakkey Wali’ and ‘Kartar Singh’.
On the technical side, breaking the trend, ‘Majajan’ is purely Pakistani - it involves no Indian singer, composer, choreographer, lyricist, cinematographer or artistes. Except the processing work completed in Bangkok (this is a DTS film), the rest has been done here and done well - a tribute to the skills of the Pakistanis
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By RAZA SHAH
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Syed Noor’s much awaited Punjabi language film Majajan is finally out. The showman had cancelled the release earlier for almost three times — once due to the October 8 earthquake, then the Pak-India Test series and most recently Eid-ul-Azha — adding to the hype of the film and testing the patience of Pakistani cine-goers.
With the all-Pakistan premier of the Sonia Jahan starrer Taj Mahal just around the corner (April 28), Syed Noor had no option but to release Majajan right away and with not much publicity. Although a local TV channel is promoting the film, if done earlier it certainly would have helped get more people to the cinema who still remember Syed Noor and Saima from Choorian — the biggest Punjabi grosser of present times.
Majajan is expected to face tough competition from Taj Mahal, but as one who is quite familiar with Syed Noor’s brand of cinema, this writer thinks that we might already have a winner on our hands. If the latter is a monument of a man’s eternal love for a woman, Majajan doesn’t fall short on this count either.
Syed Noor has been romantically linked with Saima for years and it is probably the oldest talk around tinsel town that she has been his heroine in more than a dozen films so far. So when Saima decided to launch her first film as a producer, it was all but natural that she chose Noor to direct it. The story is by Rukhsana Noor for who else could write it better than she?
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Shaan plays Zille Shah, an unhappily married man belonging to the revered Syed clan who falls in love with a courtesan, Taari (Saima), when she performs in his village. His wife (Madiha Shah) and family straightaway condemn the budding relationship, thereby leading to a conflict that keeps the audience entertained for three hours straight.
Majajan took almost two years to complete and it was rumoured that it was the Punjabi version of Devdas. Zille Shah is shown as a drunkard, dressed in white and looking very much like Devdas’ character. He is a man trapped in the feudal system but who revolts against it to win the love of his life. If Majajan resembles any Indian film, it could only be Silsila which cashed in on the hype of Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha’s love affair when he was married to Jaya Bhaduri as the characters on screen spoke the language that people couldn’t hear off screen. Majajan has not been marketed or presented that way but the characters on screen are rather close to real people. For the film, Syed Noor has not only provided his directorial skills but has also written the screenplay and dialogue. So when Madiha Shah refers to Shaan as Shahji, telling him that she will not accept his affair with Saima, one can guess who’s talking here; also when Shaan turns around and says that falling in love with Saima is his heart’s doing.
‘Majajan’ is expected to face tough competition from ‘Taj Mahal’, but if the latter is a monument of a man’s eternal love for a woman, the Syed Noor masterpiece doesn’t fall short on this count either
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And this makes Majajan even more interesting. Shaan, Saima and Madiha Shah fit their characters like the proverbial glove. The film is a comeback movie for Madiha Shah and she lives up to viewers’ expectations. Shaan’s character has different shades and rumour has it that while shooting for the film, he put the production team in a tough spot by causing delays with his disappearing acts and other shenanigans. But everything aside, he has delivered an excellent performance and one must commend Syed Noor (and Saima) for sticking with Shaan and not opting for Moammar Rana who, one feels, would have killed the character.
Saima is one of the finest film actresses we have and since this is a home production with her favourite director, she seems totally at ease and very much in control of her character. She is stunning as Taari, the courtesan who sings and performs in village theatres but lives a very simple life. She is shown to respect her peers and values but speaks her mind out loud and commands respect. Majajan has already proved to be another feather in Saima’s cap and as a producer she has launched a film that is truly entertaining and beautiful. One also feels that she must be appreciated for stepping forward in the revival of good cinema at a time when our Lollywood is struggling hard to survive.
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Majajan can be labelled as a musical as Zulfikar Ali, the celebrated music director of the earlier hit, Choorian, is back with a score that’s just as brilliant if not more. All the songs are sung by Azra Jehan coupled with a good melody. Tere Ishq Nachaya by Bullhay Shah is also included in the soundtrack that has 10 other songs, and Syed Noor has filmed them so beautifully that none of them seem out placed except for the last one where it feels like the director has stretched the ending to fit it in.
With a spate of new film directors working on their projects and competition as big and strong as Mughal-i-Azam and the ongoing King Kong on nation-wide cinemas, what the audiences want from Javed Sheikh, Sangeeta and Syed Noor is good clean quality films. Majajan is just what they have been waiting for.
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The film was released last month in Pakistan and is turning out to ba big hit.
Below is a personal review from someone who has seen Majajan on its first day of release:
Many of you people will be surprised by Majajan being declared as a classic...but it is actually a classic in Punjabi movies....a semi art movie with a brilliant direction, excellent music, mind blowing locations and dresses and remarkable actings, This is what majajan is all about.
I saw it on the very first day of its release...n at the end ...i was like...WoW finally they have learnt how to make MOVIES!!...yeah this is the effort that can be called a "movie" when you talk about punjabi film industry...an expected huge hit...and surely it deserves to be..
movie touches a very sensitive issue of our society...i m not gonna tell you guys about the storyline so that suspense is still there..all i wud say just go n watch it... you wont regret...
before watching the movie i got to hear some rumours like its a rip off of devdas story and shan is gonna copy shahrukh blah blah....but all this was crap...
shan has looked far cuter and bigger actor than shahrukh in the movie...hes once again proven that no one can act like him...from movies like hamayun gujjar, sangam, ghar kab aao gay, teray pyar main, commando to majajan he has come up with his unique verstality and superb dialogue delivery and acting....
meray khayal main shaan aur saima nay apni life time acting kee hay aur uss par dialogues were simply classic..koee b indian actor in donon kay callibre ko nahin pohonch sakta....yeah baat app sab likh lain...
take care
9/10 for the movie
Re: Syed Noor's Majajan
Thanks goodfella - i'll watch out for it!
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looks the same as usual. just the type of movie that most Pakistanis really cannot relate to, nor have a desire to spend time or money on.
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the Punjabi movie watchers will definitely like it.
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There is a punjabi song they keep showing on DM from the movie majajan. Does any1 know where I can listen to these songs on the Internet?
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I dare not watch any movie which has Saima as the herion :( She looks like a grandma for god sakes...cant lollywood find someone better than this cow.
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Hey guyz...can any1 tell me where can i download the song "tere ishq nachaya" from the net?
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hey but saima did do gud acting ..