I have have read alot of positive things about the film in various Urdu newspapers.

The soundtrack is not bad but not us good as previous Javed Shiekh films. May be I have to listen to it a few times.

Thanks alot. Was waiting for the site for a loooooooooooong time. At last.

Charizmatic I also read this in an Urdu daily a few days so it is correct. But why another Punjabi film.

I will upload the songs of DJRH. I have songs of Mehndi Walay Haath, Nikki Ji Haan and Majajan. I don't have songs of the other films that you want.

I have the songs in audio. Give me a few days and I will convert them from audio cassette to MP3.

Totally agree with bilal and Charizmatic Khuda Kay Liye all the way. Why compare the two films in the first place.

The lux style nominations were announced a few days back. As expected Khuda Kay Liye has taken all the film awards. Shaan geting best actor. Khuda Kay liye also won the award for the best original soundtrack.

The release of this film has become the biggest joke of the year. Just pathetic. Still no sign of its audio track.

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Syed Noor's best period as director was from 1995-1999. After that it has mostly been downhill expect for Majajan recently.

He is talented without any doubt but currently he is just wasting his time. I wrote a full analysis on this on another post last year on Syed Noor.

I have the songs on CD. I have uploaded one of the songs on my4sahred account. Here is the link:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/1867544/2164adb5/sharing.html

I will upload the rest of the songs in a few days time.

The film was directed by Syed Noor and the music director was M.Arshad. You can download the songs from the net.

Syed Noor is director. M.Arshad is music director. The film was released a few years back and is available on DVD. It was a decent film which really was a remake of Javed Fazil's "Zid".

I have read numerous reviews of KKL on different indian websites and except for one or two the rest of them have been very positive.

The film has been not promoted properly at all. The fact still remains that majority of people in India still prefer hardcore commerical Cinema and the same goes for Pakistan. Its only in recent years that with the opening of multiplexes in India that Indian film makers have started to experiment and make off beat films.

On the postive side here is something taken today form the indian FM site:

I'd like to laud the Shroffs of Shringar for exploiting KHUDA KAY LIYE exceptionally well in Mumbai. Unaffected by the thanda opening to the film, they never lost hope, they continued to publicize the film with equal zeal and fervour and the strategy has paid off. The film has caught on with the Mumbai audiences and the strategy of prime-shows-at-select-screens is resulting in good returns from plexes. The film is going from strength to strength

The film is going to released next week and the soundtrack has not been released yet and also no website for the film.

Khuda Kay Liye - A fantastic film from across the border
SAVIO ZACHARIA, IndiaGlitz [Wednesday, April 02, 2008]

Khuda Ke Liye better known as ‘ In the name of God ‘internationally has been highly acclaimed at several film festivals and has bagged several prestigious awards. The film has been directed by Pakistan’s most renowned TV producer Shoaib Mansoor who has been the mastermind behind the success of the comedy play ‘Fifty Fifty’.

This time around Shoaib gets into a more serious note exploring certain fundamentalists false beliefs circling Islam and the state of Muslims in today’s contemporary modern society. The film also dwells into the state of Muslims living abroad post the 9/11 attacks.

The film that had a fatwa issued against it by some radical maulvi's and had the director of the movie fleeing Pakistan as soon as the movie was released fearing his life finally releases in India courtesy Percept Picture Company.

The movie revolves around two musician brothers – Mansoor(Shaan) and Sarmad (Fahwad Khan) who have their own popular music group in Pakistan. Music is considered ‘Haram’ by certain fundamentalist groups and thus one day Sarmad is lured by fanatical Maulvi Tahiri (Rasheed Naz) into joining his ranks as a fundamentalist and giving up music and all other things perceived as haram.

Meanwhile UK-based uncle of the boys, worried by the prospect of his daughter Mary(Iman Ali) having an affair with a white British, traps her into a visit to Pakistan and sends her into an Afghan village where she is forcefully married off to Sarmad under the influence of Maulvi Tahiri.

Then the disastrous 9/11 occurs and Mansoor is detained on the grounds of being Muslim by U.S. authorities who beat and torture him to elicit a confession of his role in terrorism. While Mansoor is held captive by U.S. authorities his younger brother Samrad gets involved in the battle between Taliban, US forces and Northern Alliance. Now Mary too is held captive in the frontier village and can’t break free from the chains of a forced marriage.

‘Khuda Ke Liye ‘is truly a splendid offering to the world of cinema. People may call it a Pakistani film but the film is truly international carrying a star cast which is a mix of Pakistanis, Indians and Americans. The film also addresses an international subject; the state of Muslims all over the globe. The plot surely stems from within the dynamics of Pakistan and its rigid functional laws and ethos but the film truly makes a global mark.

The director Shoaib Mansoor deserves a standing ovation to firstly dare to make such a film being a resident of Pakistan and secondly for changing our perception about Pakistani cinema being low budget, mediocre quality flicks. ‘Khuda Ke Liye’ has been very well conceived and executed by Mansoor and his team. The film brings about the resurgence of cinema in Pakistan.

Mansoor has combined with Geo TV network to produce a massive and hard hitting film such as this. Mansoor has fused in various controversial issues such as religious extremism , racial profiling , status of women in Islam , Music according to Islam and cultural contextualization of religion to provide a real hard hitting film.

The direction and screenplay is top notch as the film moves gradually from one character to another. The cinematography and editing too is good. The film captures the beautiful locales of Pakistan, Afghanistan and USA very well. The cuts are sharp and the edit fuses well with the transition in the narrative.

The dialogues of the film are hard hitting and may be objectionable by certain Muslim groups. Like Naseeruddin Shah’s delivery of ‘deen me dadhi hai, dadhi me deen nahi‘ (In religion there is beard, not religion is in beard).

The music of the film is just splendid. Unlike Hindi films, the actors don’t break into a 4 min song or so, rather the songs are played mostly in the background and yet hook onto you. The ‘Allah Hoo’, ‘Bhulla Samjaiya’ and title track are worth listening to over and over again.

On the acting front all actors are effective but it’s primarily Shaan and Rasheed Naz who steal the show. Actor Shaan is just so versatile and even the accents implemented by him as he goes to the US is just smooth. His dialogue delivery too is sleek. Just watch the scene where he is being interrogated by the US officials in the cell constantly. His expressions change from fear to anger and hatred and the way he responds to the threats from the officials is fantastic.

Rasheed Naz brings in the elegant, fundamentalistic , religious maulvi element with ease. He poisons Samrad’s mind in a very realistic manner with debatable issues. His dialogues too are very effective as he describes music to be ‘Haram’ and sends out his troop to fight the war stating it to be ‘Allah Miya’s’ call.

Pakistani model Iman Ali too does a good job at depicting the captivity and turmoil within a woman. Fahwad Khan who came into the film on Pakistani Pop icon Ali Zafar’s refusal to do the role does a good job. He expresses well as the young lad sandwiched between his elder brothers’ thoughts and the maulvi’s fundamentalist views. His delivery at the court sequence really impresses as he argues that he never used to read the Quran but wasn’t a bad Muslim either.

Naseeruddin Shah comes very late into the film as Maulana Wali but delivers some of the best dialogues of the film. He tackles various issues such as music in Islam and other cultural elements which aren’t a part of the religion. He intensifies and argues about the Muslim ‘Huliya’(looks). ‘haraam ki kamai jeb me rakhkar, halal ghosht ki dukaan dhoondhte hain‘ (People look for Halal meat shops with inappropriate earnings in their pocket) are lines that strike gold.

On the whole, ‘Khuda Ke Liye’ does have minor glitches but the storytelling and theme of the film is just so intense that one never tends to dwell on those aspects. The film is definitely a must watch and Shaan’s letter towards the end of the film leaves behind a message to all across the globe that surely helps in clearing the misconception that every terrorist is a Muslim and vice-versa.

Rating : ****

On which programme where the clips shown.

Are any promos of KKL running on Indian channels.

This is an excellent review from the most prestigious Indian newspaper.

I do agree what they have said aboutShaan because in some of the scenes especially the ones that were shot in America he does look overweight.

Well the film got cleared by the censorboard without any cuts on Thursday. The members of the censorboard have been very impressed by the film.

One of the songs in the film " Koi Saathi Huwye Pyar Da" is getting very popular in Pakistan. THe singer is Nida Fayyaz and music is by Zain.

This is all good news regarding Gulabo.

SK you are right but joking aside the true age of Saima is around 40. Her first film came out in 1990 or 1991. Thats 17 years. If she was around 20 or over when she first appeared then age is either nearly 40 or just over.

Well one thing is interesting that two Urdu Newspapers has declared the film a flop after the initial rush. The reason stated that people have already seen the film on DVD and Feroz Khan's scenes have been cut.

The figures qouted above are not bad but nothing special. Lets see how it fares this week and next. I am totally against Indian films getting released in Pakistan but from a business point of view until piracy is not totally eliminated in Pakistan then Indian films have no chance.MR NICE39491.319375

I have mis-placed the audio cassette of Uff Yeh Beewiyan. What I can do is that someone has upload about 2 or 3 songs from the film on youtube and I can rip the audio from there.

In the mean while I will look for the audio. If you need any other songs then tell me. I do have majority of the Pakistani Urdu hit film songs from 1995 onwards. I also have huge collection of Pakistani pop from the early 1990s.

My vote for Desi Squad.

I have uploaded 5 songs from the film Sanam including your request "Dharkhan Ko Khabar" Aanizabst on my 4shared account. Here is the link :

http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/1867544/2164adb5/sharing. html

Deely when ever I get hold of the CD I will upload it inshallah. I am hoping that the music also gets released here in UK. Recently KTSK, Tarap and Majajan music weas released by Moviebox in UK.

I have also read the news. I can't see the film doing well as Welcome was released about 6 weeks ago and everyone in Pakistan must have seen it by now.

Well Zibakhana is still running at the Cinepax in Rawalpindi after 6 weeks and according to Omar Khan's website thehotspotonline.com the film has grossed more then KKL and Goal together last week.

This is great news especially for new and upcoming filmmakers that even small budgets can do well along us the subject matter is new and interesting.

Hoppo Ansari Music have downloaded the songs from my 4shared account link.

Afridi Hasnat I don't have any reservations if our film makers go to India or any where else for post production. Even Shoaib Mansoor and Syed Noor went to India for post production as these facilities are not avialable in our country.

To go to India for anything else is an insult to our own talent. How do you expect to progress if you are going to out source everything to the Indians. We might us well close our own industry and just ask the Indians to make films for us. A similiar situation is taking place on TV also.

The whole scenerio is sickening. The indians must be laughing at us.