DIRECTOR : Shoaib Mansoor
PRODUCER : GeoFilms
CAST : Shaan, Fawad Khan, Iman Ali, Austin Sevry, Larry Neuman, Nasserudin Shah
MUSIC : Mark Berlin
Mansoor (played by Shaan) and Sarmad (played by theatre actor/musician Fawad of EP fame) both musicians, brought in a well to do Pakistani family. Mansoor and Sarmad are torn apart by the latter’s increased involvement with a certain Maulana Taheri (based most probably on Maulana Sami ul Haq of JUI-S component of the MMA), who turns the soft spoken Sarmad into full fledge Jehadi.
Things are complicated when the brothers’ cousin Mary arrives from London to spend a few days with them, only to discover that she has been tricked by her father into coming to Pakistan to avoid her marrying her Non-Muslim boyfriend Dave. Meanwhile Mansoor leaves for Chicago to enrol at the “School of Music” there. In an epic that switches from London to Lahore to Waziristan to Nangahar Afghanistan to Chicago, these ordinary Pakistanis are increasingly faced with both internal and external conflict. And then there is September 11.
This movie is being promoted as the first Pakistani film to be released in India during the last forty years. It is sad that such tactics have to be used to draw an audience for good cinema. And Khuda kay liye is first and foremost an instance of honest film-making. It deserves to be watched and talked about. Not as a curiosity from across the border. But as a heartfelt attempt to tell the tale of the dilemma faced by Muslims…in today’s burgeoning culture of hatred and mistrust.
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I wrote:
Today i watched the Pakistani film 'khuda kay liye' .. it was like wow!!!
It shows the life of every pakistani/muslim living in pain and misery because of few wrong turned muslims. It reflects on how muslims are wrongly depicted by some non-muslim people because of some muslim terrorists.
The film also shows on how young muslim men are wrongly guided in the name of god ALLAH.
Folks is a great movie. You should definitely watch the film.
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Khuda Ke Liye has grossed around Rs.60 million in India in six weeks so far and the movie is yet to be released in many centres in the country. Its box-office earnings are expected to be substantial by the time it covers all the centres in the country, considering the response it has received wherever it has been released so far.
Khuda Ke Liye had grossed Rs.70 million at the Pakistani box-office, the first Pakistani movie to generate that kind of theatrical revenues. The movie was made on a budget of a little over Rs.60 million, unprecedented for a Pakistani movie.
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