Controversial Pak
Film in IFFI
PTI (Panaji)
10 November 2007
A megahit Pakistani film that has earned the ire of some
fundamentalist groups in that country for being critical of
hardline Islamic elements, will be the first-ever entry from
the neighbouring nation in the competition section of the
38th IFFI starting here on November 23.
Starring popular Pakistani actor Shaan, and with India's
Naseeruddin Shah in the pivotal special appearance as a maulavi
who drives sense into the protagonist's mind, "Khuda
Ke Liye" (In the Name of God) will compete with 15 other
films for the top honours in the Asian-African-Latin American
Competition, sources within festival organisers said here.
The Indian representation in the competition will be "Ratri
Mazha (Night Rain)" (Malayalam) directed by Lenin Rajendran
and "Ekti Nadir Galpa (Tale of a River)" directed
by noted production designer Samir Chanda.
Directed by Shoaib Mansoor, the Urdu-language "Khuda
Ke Liye", with its theme that looks into the problems
Muslims in general and Pakistanis in particular are facing
post 9/11 and the tension between fundamentalists and liberal
Muslims, takes a look into these core issues through the story
of a young music prodigy who joins a television talent hunt
show.
The film is about two brothers who are pop musicians in Lahore,
one of whom gets radicalised under the influence of extremists,
while the other goes to America and gets unlawfully detained
after 9/11
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