Comments on: For God’s Sake…: Tagore Reviews Khuda Ke Liye

By: fayyaz

fayyaz — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:12:48 +0000

Khuda Ke Liye has been a pride for us Pakistanis because it became a very successful film and proved that people in Pakistan support meaningful films.

In the past, we had many films that were not supported by media so public doesn’t even know that!! Javed Jabbar made Pakistan’s first film in English language as far back in 1976. Name of this film is: Beyond the Last Mountain. (Another English language film ‘Blood of Hussain’ (1980) was banned because it had some scenes that made fun of the army). When media didn’t encourage Javed Jabbar, he stopped. His daughter is making a film (coming soon) based on a true story:
‘Ramchand Pakistani’ starring Nandita Das

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/images/archive/071125/images1.htm

Another good punjabi film was ‘Khamosh Pani’ or Silent Waters (available on Youtube). Sadly, again our media didn’t support that film, even though it won International Awards. I met a portugese person who had watched it in a Cinema in Portugal and was surprised that this film about Pakistan was not even released in Pakistan!! We watched it on Channel 4 in the UK.

Last year, a horror film came from pakistan, called Zibakhana or Hell’s Ground (Trailor available on youtube and its website). This film is going around the world in festivals. Luckily it is going to be released tomorrow in Pakistan.

http://www.zibahkhana.com/

Pakistani government is too busy in strengthening its power and has no time to send these films for International Festivals. All efforts are purely private. Good thing is that our Media, especially biggest group Jang Group, has started to support good Pakistani films.

By: JZ

JZ — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:40:03 +0000

Watched this film in a London cinema. That’s the best film that has come out of Pakistan. It should be nominated for Oscar.

By: idris

idris — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:51:39 +0000

i have seen this movie and i had to say its way better then any hindi movie that i have seen this year. the soundtrack is amazing and also the direction. If the pakistani’s keep on making films on this stage it will be good for asian cinema

By: Romeo Almeida

Romeo Almeida — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:26:35 +0000

I am so proud and happy to know that the film For God’s sake is about the human values. It is exciting to know that the producer from Pakistan where the politics for power and greed are taking shape in the form of religion. Islam is one of the greatest religion preaching the universal love for whole of humanity in the carpet of diversity.
I appreciate efforts of Tagore Almeida in forcusing the universal and international human values deeply routed in us.Let the article of Tagore be an inspiration and eye opener for all those who are making this global family divided in the name of religion,culures and frontiers.

By: dhruv37 » For God’s Sake…: Tagore Reviews Khuda Ke Liye

dhruv37 » For God’s Sake…: Tagore Reviews Khuda Ke Liye — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:37:13 +0000

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt For God’s Sake… A very personal friend and inspiration, the literate, intellect and award winning author, the late Manohar Sardesai once shared with me, what he had written in Konkani (our native language in Goa) ‘Molbailia Devak., Mondirant adun dar bond kone kalem? Bhotak vichar’ (Who took the God from the skies and prisoned him in a shrine? Ask the priest). This line has always taken a very special place in my heart and every now and again fuels my humanitarian fight and secularism efforts [...]