Maalik

2016
Maalik
7.9| 2h35m| en| More Info
Released: 08 April 2016 Released
Producted By: Footprint Entertainment
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A man of Pakistan's Elite Special Forces whose life gets entangled with Politics. They soon realize that serving the nation is more complicated than simple following of orders.

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Rawal Afzal The acting by almost everyone involved, the professionalism in terms of the action scenes, the equipment shown being used, the very hard- hitting nature of the film has really, really surprised and actually shocked me big time! I least expected this from the Pakistan cinema, even though there's been great improvement in general in the quality of films. So a big thumbs-up to the film-maker here and all who've worked so hard behind the scene for this Hollywood styled film.Before I proceed to touch the controversial aspect of this film, I must add here though that that love story between that Punjabi guy and the Pashtoon girl was really needless; on top of all, Maalik and his cronies taking him to that place with them to hand her brother's dead body to the family looked so odd since he wasn't even a part of their team. That whole story could've easily saved them good 10-15 minutes, especially given that it'd nothing to do with the plot of the film.Secondly, the film glorifies the army to no ends. It just pushes the agenda further that's so prevalent in Pakistan's media nowadays, which is that the army is at the forefront of all good things being done in the country and it's them who're the sole well-wishers of the public, completely overlooking the genocide of the Bangladeshis in the 1971 war at the hands of its army (of East Pakistan then, its own public), and the absolute lack of progress made by the country during the years governed by the military dictators. Besides, General Zia-ul-Haq is the biggest reason behind the mess (of extremism and terrorism) that Pakistan finds itself in even years after him (although Z.A. Bhutto too deserves tremendous "credit" for that). Even the terrorists who they showed being killed by the army, they were the adopted sons of the ISI until the last few years.As for the controversial bit in it, Following Salman Taseer's assassination by his own bodyguard, a film of this nature was always going to be a bit controversial. So I can understand where the ban was coming from; and in an educated society this might never have been an issue at all, but I believe that a film needs to be treated as a film, as a sources of entertaining. This wouldn't only apply to the common man, but also to the censor boards and governments, especially given that this was neither hurting the sentiment of the public. Besides, tons of such films are also made and approved in India, a country with similar issues and problems in terms of its politicians.One needs to be consistence in making such decisions, because if they ban this, what would they do tomorrow if a film is made about a person avenging the murder of his family after not being helped by the police, what that be interpreted as promoting the practice of the common man taking the law into his own hands? Obviously not! So the problem here was of course the insecurity of the politicians and the rulers who kind of saw this as a threat.So leave to the public to like or dislike the film, and I'm sure there must be also those who would reject such an idea. I for example wrote at length against it when a Bollywood film very openly encouraged mob justice for rapists, but that doesn't mean I'd ban that film. Leave it that way, simple. I'm very undecided on this film as to which way to go; it's like a can of worms. However, I'd just say that this is extremely well made as a film, very efficient, hard-hitting and bold, but I'd given it 10 out of 10 had it not been about such a sensitive issue. But again, since I'll treating it as just a film, I'll still be giving it nine out of 10.
msaudsarwar a very good movie in a long time. there were very small areas that could be improved but a splendid job done by the team. I think a re-run or a squeal can be planned including maybe running a season based production.Sound Quality was very nice, some of the animated scenes could have been made more realistic or avoided to keep the intensity of the movie.
M Moghees Tahir Extremely sorry to disappoint you right in the beginning but this is not what a good movie looks like. I for a start, have been a big fan of Asher Azeem. Ever since I saw his drama Dhuaan. Which I often see on youtube again and again as it was and still is a delight to watch. However, there were a lot of direction flaws in that Drama. At that time, our exposure being very limited probably we didn't know what a good direction looks like. But in this age, where we all watch hundreds of movies, we can tell where there is good direction and where there is bad direction. The story or the plot of this movie is good. but the direction is poorly done. There is no character building. The movie is all over the place. You jump from 1 scene to another. This is not Dhuaan time. I believe if he had picked some one to direct this movie, example Bilal Lashari, the movie would have been on a different level. Why the rating of 8.9 you may think?? One simple answer "Patriotism". I was dying to watch this movie and so are many others. Well not any more as it is on youtube now. People gave it a high rating because it's Asher Azeem and then all the conspiracies which surrounded the movie as it released. I gave it a rating of 1. I still would like you to watch it at least once. We should support our Cenimas. We need our industry to grow. But if any of the official teams ever reads this comment, if there is a part 2 of the movie please hire a Director. AsherAzeems acting was great and it will be great in coming parts. Direction is not his ball game. Leave it to Professionals please.
ahsanjaveed Well before i submit my review let me give you an advice.if you want to watch this movie you have to gather some courage to watch this movie.because after watching this you are going to hate yourselves and the so called system which we all ruined by our selfish decisions.well i think movie was real story based.even though they did not mention it at all.but after watching this you will know movie was not fiction but real world story.movie was hell of emotional and will be more emotional if you consider these events as true events, even it will make you cry. Timing is 2 hours and 35 minutes approximately but it feels like movie duration is just 35 minutes. That's all. now don't waste your time and go watch this movie. otherwise you are going to regret.