Aug 14, 2014
Mini Pakistani Film Reviews:
A showdown between lady of the night and lady of the people (Mussarat Nafiz) and oil-stealing, moonshining, British colonial black hat (Talish) in Shaheed (Martyr شَہید. Pakistan: Dir. Khalil Qaiser, 1962).
There's pretty much only one side you're going to be rooting for in this one, but that's kind of the point of this home-grown exoticization of the anti-imperialistic struggle in the "Muslim world."
Also, English subtitles or no, you should definitely check out this movie's song picturizations. There's some catchy stuff, and some lovely work with light and shadow. Also, Faiz Ahmed Faiz was the lyricist...so...