SAARC shows film gem from Pakistan
View(s):‘Khuda Kay Liye’ (In The Name Of God) a 2007 Pakistani Urdu-language drama film written, directed and produced by Shoaib Mansoor will be screened at National Film Corporation cinema hall at 5.30 pm on December 10.
Starring Shaan, Iman Ali,Fawad Afzal Khan and Hameed Sheikh, the film unravels about the difficult situation in which Pakistan in particular and the Muslims in general are caust up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the fundamentalism and the liberalism.
After going through a bitter divorce through a Caucasian wife, U.K.-based Hussain Shah now lives in a common-law relationship with another Caucasian woman. Angered that his daughter, Mary, is dating a Caucasian male, Dave, he counsels her to stop seeing him as it is forbidden for women to marry outside Islam.
But when Mary persists, he relents and permits her to marry, provided she travels with him to Lahore, Pakistan, to meet his estranged mother and brother, to which she agrees. Once there, Mary is then taken to a remote area in Afghanistan and forced to marry her cousin, Sarmad Khan, a singing artiste, who has turned conservative after being influenced by Moulana Tahiri. Sarmad’s brother, Mansoor, re-locates to Chicago, to enroll for music lessons with Professor Lincoln, meets with Caucasian fellow-student, Janie, and both fall in love with each other.
Celebrating the SAARC Film Day, the screening is organized by SAARC Cultural Centre.
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