The movie takes a hard look at fundamentalist Islam while at the same time bashing the US over pretend atrocities.
Young music prodigy Ahmed Jahanzeb along with Shuja Haider (composer of anti-terrorism song Yeh Hum Naheen) produced the soundtrack of the film.
Movie Trailers HERE.
The Pakistani writer and director says he made the movie with the hope of helping to reform radical Islam.
ADN Kronos reported:
Despite fatwas and legal threats to prevent the Pakistani film Khuda Kay Liye (In the Name of God) from being screened, the three-hour long blockbuster has become a box-office smash in Pakistan.Despite the part about reforming radical Islam, the anti-US film ought to be a huge hit at Venice.
In an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI), the film's writer and director, Shoaib Mansoor, said that it was made to "reform the fundamentalists in Pakistan in particular, and the Muslim world in general. "
While Mansoor recognises that this is "such a high ambition", he is thrilled by the response that the film has received in his home country.
Reports say that the film took 180,000 dollars in its opening weekend last month and grossed 500,000 dollars in its first three weeks.
The movie tells the story of two brothers who are musicians. One of them gives up music and becomes radicalised, grows a beard and tries get his mother to wear a hijab. The other brother moves to Chicago to study music but ends up getting arrested after 9/11 and is tortured by US interrogators until he is paralysed.
The film cover hot topics in Pakistan such as marital rape, forced marriage as well as jihad and also includes anti-American sentiments.
It is expected to also generate broad debate at international festivals, like this week's Venice International Film Festival which is showing a number of political films this year.
"I have hardly cared or bothered about getting into festivals," Mansoon told AKI. But he admits that screening at an event like Venice would definitely give his Pakistani film greater exposure and credibility.
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ReplyDeletei'm certain there's a recessive Michael
Moore wanna be gene in his make-up..
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d bg, the first thing that came to my mind was "if only michael moore was making That kind of money!" ;)
ReplyDeleteJust too bad about the total lie about torture in the US.
Like a movie like that is going to reform radical Islam. What's your choices - become a radical Muslim or have Americans torture you until you are paralysed....hmmmm, let's see, ennie, meanie, minie, mo
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I cannot be too bothered by foreign films showing the USA in a negative light.
ReplyDeleteThink about how many US films you have seen, which portray some other nation in a negative way. . .countless films making up bad things in Russia (especially during the cold war), many recent films about African nations, it goes on and on and on. Villains in US films are frequently foreign nationals, which itself paints foreign nations in a negative light.
This is just some good old fashioned turnabout. If we can do it, so can they.
'countless films making up bad things in Russia (especially during the cold war'
ReplyDeleteSeriously? You mean, like the millions of Russians who were starved to death by their own government?
Little things like that?
Moral equivocateurs are Such Idiots. Say, maybe you can tell us how Great the health care is in Cuba?
Next thing you know, Yashmak will be telling us what peaceful, tolerant folks those Pakistanis are, and that all the reports of oppression and murder of non-Muslims are just rumors.
ReplyDeleteIf they make the case that radical islam to a larger portion of Pakistan who really cares if they bash the US we are big boys and girls we can handle it.
ReplyDeletethis film being huge hit in pakistan-despie threat of suicide bombing, is proof that not all pakistanis are radical- but are moderate. extremist are trying to ban this film because it shows their true colurs- how corrupt they are and how they use their religion for their own agenda. film-rejects suicide bombing and sends a clear message these people are cowards.
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