Khuda ke Liye- A Movie Review

Khuda kay liye- Dubbed as the film which heralds the revival of Pakistani Cinema was released November last year. After huge publicity from its main financer- GEO Television, a network championing the cause for Free Media and self styled chief challenger of the Musharraf regime, the film already gives away glimpses of an agenda driven project.

The movie attempts to take on the raging debates consuming the Muslim World and Muslims living in foreign lands. The plot starts somewhere in pre 9/11 timeframe and ends in late 2002 in the midst of which it follows various characters facing an array of issues in life. Racial Profiling, Forced Marriage, youth radicalisation, identity crisis for British and American Muslims, Muslim women marrying men of other or no faith, and Music.

The movie revolves around two musician brothers – Mansoor and Sarmad – one of whom transitions into “religious extremism” and the other falls victim to American Intelligence agencies and subsequently tortured.

MOVIE REVIEW- Rendition

MOVIE REVIEW- Rendition
RELEASED October 12, 2007

The War on Terror has allowed Many states in the world to introduce draconian, in-humane, distasteful, un-thinkable and previously illegal measures to combat the rise of “terrorism”. Already thousands of Muslims internationally have become victims of ‘Extra-ordinary Rendition’- being taken away to secret locations in client countries of western states for torture and confession.

The Movie “Rendition” closely examines the relationship of America who outsources torture of an American Citizen who is Muslim, to a Middle Eastern country where all forms of brutality are legitimate to make prisoners speak and confess to statements which are given in duress and compulsion.