Much talked about, much less seen movie. Although, without a doubt a syllabus recommended, compulsory viewing movie! So important is it’s message!
The brilliance of the film is in it’s theme, the characters essayed rather well by the cast(that includes our Naseer in a small but very crucial cameo), and to some degree the plot. I know many fans of the movie will disagree, but this is my opinion. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a good movie. A very important modern work! But the style is somewhat documentary. Not that that shold be a negative for any movie, but I’m a little biased towards Hollywood’s style of movie-making. It’s brilliant in patches, but stops just short of being overall brilliant!
The songs are quite a rage I hear. I’m not humming them yet, so I will reserve comment on that bit. The cast is good, the theme is brilliant. The movie succeeds in getting it’s very worthy message across.
A word of caution here: DO NOT PICK UP PIRATED COPIES OF THIS MOVIE. I have heard that certain conservative elements have edited out the secular maulana’s(played by Naseer) very crucial very enlightening speech towards the end!
Go to Planet M, pick up the original CD’s from there. BETTER STILL, pick up an original DVD if possible as the subtitles will make it easy to understand the otherwise difficult Urdu.