KHUDA KAY LIYE
A Must Watch Movie
Khuda Kay Liye (KKL) is a Pakistani movie that showcases problems that Muslims are facing today both in their homes and globally, for simply being Muslims. And contrary to expectations, the story does not hover around the 9/11 incident. It is an integral but not the whole part of the storyline.
The Storyline:
KKL is a story of two Muslim families, based out of London and Lahore respectively being headed by two real brothers. The two brothers have not had any interaction for a long period of time.
The London family faces tough time when one of the brothers (the head of the family) gets his daughter married to her cousin (first cousin who is elder brother’s son) in Pakistan, against her knowledge and wishes (she is having an affair with a British). He does this as he comes under irrational attitude of his fellow community members and subsequently adopts a fanatic and unreasonable outlook towards Islam. He feels that by getting his daughter married to a Muslim will ensure that Islam remains as a religion of his family for generations to come. And after carrying out the act in Pakistan, he comes back to London without any regret as he firmly believes that what he has done is truly a religious and hence a justified act.
The other family, based in Lahore, Pakistan follows a very liberal lifestyle and because of this, it faces a lot of difficult challenges.
- The younger son gets influenced by a fundamentalist priest who, in the name of religion, misguides the boy to such an extent that the boy changes his lifestyle and outlook completely. He leaves music (a passion shared between him and his elder brother), marries his cousin and even leaves his family. And he ends up being dragged into the infamous ‘war against terrorism’.
- While the elder son of the family, gets falsely implicated by the American forces in America on charges of being a member of Al-Qaeda group and having a role behind the 9/11 tragedy. He faces all this because being a Muslim he is accused of being a terrorist.
Reasons To Watch:
# With an extremely ‘balanced’ storyline, it becomes a must watch movie. It talks about how Islam is being misinterpreted, misused and how Muslims, in general, are getting traumatised without any reason. It doesn’t take any sides and neither blames any particular country / community / religion for the same. The movie has an interesting court room climax featuring Naseer Ud Din Shah’s (the Indian actor) acclaimed performance.
# The movie is well paced, in accordance to the screenplay, based out of Pakistan, U.S., U.K and little bit of Afghanistan.
# Realism in movie - dialogues, characters and locations.
- There are no loud or preachy dialogues and the characters, shown attired in a usual manner, speak colloquially. The dialogues are in Hindi (predominantly), Urdu and English making it easy to comprehend the story.
- The way the Pakistani family is shown is going to be a pleasant surprise for a lot of Indian viewers as they are going to find a lot of similarities between the two lifestyles. And, unlike typical Hindi movies, there is no use of sets or artificial structures, further adding to the realism element.
An extremely engrossing movie with a fine musical score, it has multiple messages for global society. It is my all time favourite.
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