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Khuda kai liya12/17/2023 ![]() May be the director intended to show Mansoor’s stupidity in talking about conquests when music makes much more impact than any conquest. Mansoor implies Muslims as Pakistanis which is totally wrong. The scene where Mansoor tries to impress Janie by saying that we built the Taj Mahal and that we ruled India and Spain sounds ridiculous. It also seems ridiculous that the cops kidnap Mansoor from his apartment instead of arresting him. The captive scenes come off real bad with the American interrogator saying some stupid stuff and they even have a physical fight. The amateur acting in some of these scenes also does not help. Some of the scenes have very low production values like the ones in the prison or the war scenes. The best scene is the courtroom scene where Moulana Wali (Naseeruddin Shah) explains Islam’s views on music, western attire, inter-religious marriage and forced marriage. The scene where Mary confronts Mansoor as to why he is not committing and the scene where the distressed Indian accuses him of being a terrorist are good. The scene where Mary asks about the bride and her failed attempt to escape are especially heartbreaking. The brainwashing scenes of Sarmat by Maulana and his gradual turn to extremism by abstaining from music, removing paintings and asking his mother to wear Hijab are done very well. Mary’s hypocrite father is in a live-in relationship with a white woman but cannot tolerate his daughter being in love with a white man. The movie deals with issues that Pakistanis in particular and Muslims in general face like forced marriage, Islamic fundamentalism and racial profiling. Sarmat becomes an Islamic extremist and forcibly marries Mary (Iman Ali), his British cousin. Mansoor, the elder brother goes to USA to study music, falls in love and gets married to an American girl Janie (Austin Marie Sayre) but is imprisoned as a terrorist suspect. Khuda Kay Liye is the story of two musician brothers, Mansoor (Shan) and Sarmat (Fawad khan) and how their lives go off on two different tangents. Check out this excellent scene from Khuda Kay Liyeīelow is a review/recco I had written a couple of years back.Ĭast: Shan, Iman Ali, Fawad Khan, Rasheed Naz, Naseeruddin Shah
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