Directed bySyed Noor OriginPakistan GenresDrama ActorsBabar Ali, Shamil Khan, Saima, Rashid Mehmood Rating58% A simple, love story between a Sikh girl (Saima) and a Muslim boy.
In August 1947 in what was the final cynical act of a collapsing empire, the British left India divided. Arbitrary lines were drawn on the map of India, dividing not only the country but also provinces, in particular Punjab. The results of partition were catastrophic. All in the name of religion and nationalism people who had lived together in harmony for centuries committed mindless acts of violence against each other. All the blood spilt could not extinguish the fire of hate burning in their hearts of the people, resulting in over one million, Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus being butchered to death. An estimated 75,000 women were raped and over twelve million people were uprooted, Hindus and Sikhs to India and Muslims to Pakistan.
Directed bySamina Peerzada, Samina Peerzada OriginPakistan ActorsMehr Hassan, Moammar Rana, Shaan Shahid, Reema Khan, Yatin Karyekar, Babar Ali Rating55% The plot, if there is one, is really quite simple but made out to be complicated by eliminating little details of relationships that sort themselves out as the movie draws to a close. Neha (Reema), her half-witted brother and their cousin Mickey (Babar) live for some unknown reason with their grandmother, Nagma in a mansion in Lahore. Zarro (Mehr Hassan), yet another grandchild based in the US, arrives for a holiday to celebrate Basant and promptly becomes the target of Mickey's ardent love and Sardar Omer Daraz Khan's (Usman Peerzada) lecherous yearnings, simultaneously.
Asoo’s (Shaan) father, who works in a local godown finds that “poe-durr” (heroin) is being smuggled from the godown and he being the upright, virtuous (idiotic) type decides that he absolutely must blow his own trumpet and go to the police to blow the whistle on the nefarious drug smuggling operation going on under his own very nose at the behest of his own employers.
The film begins with a voice over explaining the "cause" of the filmmakers in attempting to expose a "crual custom"(as the poster said) that exists in the rural areas of the Punjab where women are married off (illegally) to the Quran so that the landowning family doesn't have to part with any of its wealth. The action is based around the rural haveli of Vadda Saeen - the family elder, and his wife. They live in their sprawling estate together with the extended family that is usually warring with one another. There are also legions of slaves (ghulams) who devote themselves to the Vadda Saeen and show their love for their Saeen by kissing and nuzzling his feet!
The story revolves around an Israeli agent Ameer Khan (Afzal Ahmad) who, with his daughter Pinki (Reema), are here only to decapitate the country. In the quest of doing so they release Kali (Babar Ali) which causes a mystery to arise.