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| Movie Review : Jinnah The Movie |
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Jinnah
- The Movie is in essence a glowing tribute to a man who hasn't only left behind him a
legacy, a nation of devouts, but also revered by an age as one
of the greatest statesmen in the history of mankind.
The story of a man, whose unflinching resolve and single minded, devotion resulted in the
creation of a homeland for the Muslims of the sub-continent. |
| The film revolves around the man, who was a
young idealist, a passionate human being, a distinguished lawyer, a father and the sheer
embodiment of strength, character and an indomitable will. The story unfolds, as the man
remembered as the father of a nation, succumbs to the consumption that had continued to
plague him and that he had kept at bay by sheer will. In a comatose state as his life ebbs
away, he relives the journey that was Pakistan. |
| It is 1947, India has gained its independance. The British
colonial territory is partitioned into India (largely Hindu) and Pakistan (majority
Muslim). It is a painful process and is accompanied by bloodshed. A year after he has
realized his dream, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, begins to succumb to the
illness that has dogged him for some time. |
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| He is rushed to the hospital and when the
ambulance stalls on the highway, his life begins to ebb. In his coma Jinnah relives the
truimphs and disappointments of his life, the drama of his ideals, his romance, his
happiness and the tragic death of his young wife. JINNAH tells the extraordinary story of
how India was partitioned, the final intrigues and the debates between Viceroy Lord
Mountbatten, Jinnah, Gandhi, Nehru and the mercurial Lady Edwina Mountbatten. It
chronicles the journey taken by the young idealist Jinnah as he realizes that his dream of
freeing the people of India from foreign rule is being tampered and twisted by the
realities and cruelties of politics. |
| It is the story of a practical visionary who knew that on
his world hung the future of a nation and who knew, too, that such a birth meant a
division, of a country and of his own family, since his only daughter had married a
non-Muslim and would remain in India. |
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INDIAN SOCIETY NEWS 4 may 1998
JINNAH - A PROPOGANDA FILM, OR A NEW
PERSPECTIVE?
"Jinnah" costing about £4 million to produce, stars Christophher Lee as
Jinnah, Shashi Kapoor, James Fox and Maria Aitken. It was filmed in the deserts of
Pakistan and in Karachi. There is talk of Academy Awards even at this early stage.
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Tuesday December
15,1998
BRINGING LITTLE-KNOWN PAKISTANI
LEADER JINNAH TO LIFE
Illuminates the character and times, a sweeping historical epic. The cast is
outstanding,
Lee rightly dominates, Lee is tremendously moving in his ability to illuminate
the inner life of a man of unflinching dignity.
Q-NEWS, January 1999
JINNAH :A SMALL MIRACLE JINNAH; THE
MOVIE IS A MEDIA EVENT
A patriotic tribute to the life and
struggle of the country's hero, converting them and winning their hearts. This film
presents Jinnah as the very sensible,
balanced and rational man that he was, and so it directly challenges the
Western stereotype of muslim leaders. This film is a form of dawah. It is an invitation
for the Western audience to start seeing the heroes in Muslim history
as the great people that they were.
THE NEWS, Monday, November 9 1998
JINNAH FILM
MAKES HIGH PROFILE DEBUT AT LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Tickets for the screening were sold
out within hours of their being offered
by the box office some three weeks ago. Lee's performance was outstanding
an Oscar would not be out of place, inspiring and balanced, such a film was necessary, of
the greatest statesman that history has produced. Javed Jabbar described the movie as
"brave, sensitive and imaginative." Many from the British community, quite a few
of them from a generation for whom this may well have been the first introduction to the
founder of Pakistan |
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