Movie Review: Khuda Ke Liye

Banner: Shoman Production

Director: Shoaib Mansoor

Star Cast: Naseruddin Shah, Iman Ali, Larry Neumann Jr, Shan, Fawad Khan, Austin Marie Sayre, Rasheed Naaz, Simi Reheal, Hameed Shiekh

Cinematography: Ali Mohammad, Neil Lisk, Ken Seng

The Pakistani movie Khuda Ke Liye has a realistic theme that depicts the plight of today’s’ Muslim community that is suffering the 9/11 effect. The movie was screened in many film festivals that were held in various parts of the world and praised for its content. The movie shows, how the Muslim community is unable to make itself acceptable to the western world that suspects it to be linked to some militant group after the 9/11 event and the moderate Muslims couldn’t even survive with its extremist counterpart.

The movie depicts the confusion of two youngsters, brothers from Pakistan who are liberal in views but still they face the charges of being militant. The script of the movie has a powerful message and the script is the strongest aspect of the movie. The elder brother leaves his homeland to reach U.S. with an ambition to become a singer and the younger gets misguided to join the fundamentalist’s group. The younger marries forcibly to a woman and elder marries his cousin who lived in UK and both stories reach almost the same ends.

The elder brother is forced to stay away from his wife with whom he marries without getting sanctioned from her father and he is taken to be linked to the extremists groups by the U.S. police force after the 9/11.He is interrogated for his links to militants groups and his dreams of becoming a singer fades away as the events unfold.

The cinematography of the movie is capturing and director handled the difficult subject with perfection. No faults can be found in the movie making and same can be said for the performance of the artists in the movie. The movie is emotional and touchy and fine Indian actor like Naseeruddin Shah can also be seen making his mark in the movie. The other stars like Shan, Rasheed Naz, Fawad Khan are good in their roles.

Critically the movie has many fans though the masses won’t opt for this movie during their leisure. The movie has not been screened at many theatres and screening is restricted to a few multiplexes. The movie is good for content and is one of the finest movies from Pakistan.

Rating: 8/10