Moosa Khan
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Moosa Khan is a 2001
film
which was directed by Shaan
. The film starred Saima
, Afzal Khan
and Shaan
.
and Saima
. Moosa played by Shaan
grows up in a cave due to his father being killed. His father was Maulvi who died in Moosa hands when a bunch terrorist came and attacked his Mosque. Saima
comes along with her father who dies as well when some infidels attack and she is taken hostage by Shamoon (Shafqat Cheema
) for her exterior. What will Moosa do about this?
and its saintly Maulvi
Mufti played by Abid Ali
. The Maulvi completes his prayer and emerges from the distance as pigeons and doves flutter about in a mad frenzy.
Meanwhile we are shown that across the way there is a temple
where instead of doves of peace, there is a python by large group of snarling, drooling old men in orange robes, with funky hairstyles who are cringing at the sound of the azaan from the nearby Maulvi. So enraged are they by this sound and the Maulvi who is responsible for it that they hatch an evil scheme in collusion with the local godless firangi gora's (white men - who worship only money) to bring about the end to the sound once and for all.
As the "infidels" try to gun down the lecturing Maulvi their guns suddenly malfunction by divine intervention and when the ghastly infidels decide to fire some heavy artillery and rocket launchers at the mosque (it appears divine intervention only disables rifles and pistols but not rocket launchers) the super-human Maulvi appears magically leaping in the way of the projectiles, thwarting any attempt at desecrating the mosque. Then, while the background "audience" turns from Peace mode to jihad mode, the Maulvi mumbles a few pious utterances and launches his "tasbee" (holy beads) into the air to see it transform in mid air into a holy Sword of Islam. He dramatically catches the falling blade and proceeds to hack to death the entire lot of goons who had dared to try to attack the mosque. As The Maulvi finally caves in as his blimpish child Moosa, "sorry Moosa" the maulvi says in slow motion to the death scene, his eyes burning with the fire of vengeance.
Moosa grows up in a cave somewhere, having turned his back on his religion due to the disillusionment that he felt when his father was murdered. He has instead taken to living alone in some distant caves with his horse Sheru as company. Moosa (Shaan
) has turned into a cold hearted mercenary
but all that is soon set to change with Saima
's arrival.
She shows up, dressed to kill with her father. He clearly had his own reasons for bringing his daughter to this place but when the goons start making moves on her he turns defensive and starts throwing moralizing lectures for this he gets shot by one of the goons. Shamoon (Shafqat Cheema
) sporting his usual bizarre "get up" with flowing pony tail and reptilian accessories becomes obsessed by Saima's voluptuousness, Shamoon imprisons Saima in the lair. However in keeping with the films utterly warped manner Saima chooses to stab herself to death rather than to compromise her "izzat"
(honour) as any normal "honourable" woman would (should?) do. Shamoon has her stitched up in the nick of time, yet she remains merely a captive pet for her tormentor, waiting for the first opportunity to flee. Saima is rescued from Shamoon's clutches one night by Moosa and whisked away to freedom, but just when she is beginning to take a fancy to her rescuer it's revealed that all he intended to do was use her as part of a transaction or agreement. Saima is stunned when Moosa gives her over to another set of captors .Saima begs him not to do this, but he continues to walk away, stone faced and impassive. As Moosa is about to mount onto his horse and ride off into the distance, Saima comes up with a brainwave; she takes to covering her head with a scarf
(in dramatic slow-motion) and starts reciting the words (with added echo effect) of the Quran in a last ditch effort to get through to the stubborn Moosa. When Saima reaches a crescendo with the retort of "Kya tum Moosa nahin ho" (Are you not Moosa?) her words finally seem to hit the right spot and suddenly Moosa assumes the role that his father the saintly Maulvi had always dreamed of.
Moosa forcefully bludgeons his way through the fully armed opposition and rescues again and makes away with Saima to the safety of the forest where they are joined by his childhood chum Georgie (Rembo). Love blossoms and Saima and Moosa get married and build their dream home away from the troubles of the world but Shamoon's henchmen are constantly searching every inch of the forest in order to recover Saima and destroy Moosa and it is a matter of time before they discover the mountainside home. Meanwhile Saima
produces a child-thing and forces her husband to bury his weapons and to take to praying for solace.
One fateful day while the ghastly tot/child and father are away hunting, Shamoon's horrible henchmen show up. There follows the usual bloodbath and mayhem as sprog
and dad return to begin their jihad. In one of the more hysterical scenes of the movie we have Moosa performing his prayers when a goon with a huge machine gun arrives firing shot after shot at Moosa, but these giant bullets float in Matrix
-like slow motion towards our hero and each time by divine intervention they somehow fail to hit their target. In a moment of sublime ridiculousness Moosa in fact catches the last bullet in mid air and tosses it aside disdainfully before striding out, (angels in full battle cry by now) to purge the land of all evil.
2001 in film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
which was directed by Shaan
Shaan (Actor)
Shaan is a Pakistani actor, writer and director. Upon making his debut in Javed Fazil's Bulandi alongside Reema Khan, Shaan has acted in numerous commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors of Pakistan.- Family and early life :Armaghan Shahid was born...
. The film starred Saima
Saima
Saima is a Pakistani actress from Multan, who appears in Punjabi and Urdu films.Saima's debut movie was Griban in 1987, as a supporting actress. Her second film was Khatarnaak directed by Akram Khan. She was cast for the main lead in it and released in 1990. She was discovered at the time when...
, Afzal Khan
Afzal Khan (actor)
Afzal Khan a.k.a John Rambo is a Pakistani TV, film and stage actor and comedian. He rose to fame by playing a janitor nicknamed John Rambo in PTV's famous comedy show Guest House...
and Shaan
Shaan (Actor)
Shaan is a Pakistani actor, writer and director. Upon making his debut in Javed Fazil's Bulandi alongside Reema Khan, Shaan has acted in numerous commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors of Pakistan.- Family and early life :Armaghan Shahid was born...
.
Synopsis
The storyline is based around ShaanShaan (Actor)
Shaan is a Pakistani actor, writer and director. Upon making his debut in Javed Fazil's Bulandi alongside Reema Khan, Shaan has acted in numerous commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors of Pakistan.- Family and early life :Armaghan Shahid was born...
and Saima
Saima
Saima is a Pakistani actress from Multan, who appears in Punjabi and Urdu films.Saima's debut movie was Griban in 1987, as a supporting actress. Her second film was Khatarnaak directed by Akram Khan. She was cast for the main lead in it and released in 1990. She was discovered at the time when...
. Moosa played by Shaan
Shaan (Actor)
Shaan is a Pakistani actor, writer and director. Upon making his debut in Javed Fazil's Bulandi alongside Reema Khan, Shaan has acted in numerous commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors of Pakistan.- Family and early life :Armaghan Shahid was born...
grows up in a cave due to his father being killed. His father was Maulvi who died in Moosa hands when a bunch terrorist came and attacked his Mosque. Saima
Saima
Saima is a Pakistani actress from Multan, who appears in Punjabi and Urdu films.Saima's debut movie was Griban in 1987, as a supporting actress. Her second film was Khatarnaak directed by Akram Khan. She was cast for the main lead in it and released in 1990. She was discovered at the time when...
comes along with her father who dies as well when some infidels attack and she is taken hostage by Shamoon (Shafqat Cheema
Shafqat Cheema
Shafqat Cheema is a well-known Pakistani film actor and director who has acted roles in many Urdu and Punjabi-language Lollywood films. He is notably known to have played the role of an antagonist in the 2011 blockbuster film Bol.-Filmography:...
) for her exterior. What will Moosa do about this?
Plot
The movie is set in a time warp in the colonial subcontinent Kashmirpur and its environs are seemingly inhabited by Muslims, Hindus and Christians. Beautiful white doves of symbolizing peace also fly around about in the foreground in idyllic slow motion while an audience is introduced to the local MosqueMosque
A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...
and its saintly Maulvi
Maulvi
Mawlawi is an honorific Islamic religious title given to Sunni Muslim religious scholars or Ulema preceding their names, similar to the titles Maulana, Mullah, or Shaykh. Mawlawi generally means highly-qualified Islamic scholar...
Mufti played by Abid Ali
Abid Ali
Syed Abid Ali is a former all-rounder Indian cricketer. He was a watchful lower order batsman, a medium pace bowler and a brilliant fielder.-Early life:...
. The Maulvi completes his prayer and emerges from the distance as pigeons and doves flutter about in a mad frenzy.
Meanwhile we are shown that across the way there is a temple
Temple
A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out...
where instead of doves of peace, there is a python by large group of snarling, drooling old men in orange robes, with funky hairstyles who are cringing at the sound of the azaan from the nearby Maulvi. So enraged are they by this sound and the Maulvi who is responsible for it that they hatch an evil scheme in collusion with the local godless firangi gora's (white men - who worship only money) to bring about the end to the sound once and for all.
As the "infidels" try to gun down the lecturing Maulvi their guns suddenly malfunction by divine intervention and when the ghastly infidels decide to fire some heavy artillery and rocket launchers at the mosque (it appears divine intervention only disables rifles and pistols but not rocket launchers) the super-human Maulvi appears magically leaping in the way of the projectiles, thwarting any attempt at desecrating the mosque. Then, while the background "audience" turns from Peace mode to jihad mode, the Maulvi mumbles a few pious utterances and launches his "tasbee" (holy beads) into the air to see it transform in mid air into a holy Sword of Islam. He dramatically catches the falling blade and proceeds to hack to death the entire lot of goons who had dared to try to attack the mosque. As The Maulvi finally caves in as his blimpish child Moosa, "sorry Moosa" the maulvi says in slow motion to the death scene, his eyes burning with the fire of vengeance.
Moosa grows up in a cave somewhere, having turned his back on his religion due to the disillusionment that he felt when his father was murdered. He has instead taken to living alone in some distant caves with his horse Sheru as company. Moosa (Shaan
Shaan (Actor)
Shaan is a Pakistani actor, writer and director. Upon making his debut in Javed Fazil's Bulandi alongside Reema Khan, Shaan has acted in numerous commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors of Pakistan.- Family and early life :Armaghan Shahid was born...
) has turned into a cold hearted mercenary
Mercenary
A mercenary, is a person who takes part in an armed conflict based on the promise of material compensation rather than having a direct interest in, or a legal obligation to, the conflict itself. A non-conscript professional member of a regular army is not considered to be a mercenary although he...
but all that is soon set to change with Saima
Saima
Saima is a Pakistani actress from Multan, who appears in Punjabi and Urdu films.Saima's debut movie was Griban in 1987, as a supporting actress. Her second film was Khatarnaak directed by Akram Khan. She was cast for the main lead in it and released in 1990. She was discovered at the time when...
's arrival.
She shows up, dressed to kill with her father. He clearly had his own reasons for bringing his daughter to this place but when the goons start making moves on her he turns defensive and starts throwing moralizing lectures for this he gets shot by one of the goons. Shamoon (Shafqat Cheema
Shafqat Cheema
Shafqat Cheema is a well-known Pakistani film actor and director who has acted roles in many Urdu and Punjabi-language Lollywood films. He is notably known to have played the role of an antagonist in the 2011 blockbuster film Bol.-Filmography:...
) sporting his usual bizarre "get up" with flowing pony tail and reptilian accessories becomes obsessed by Saima's voluptuousness, Shamoon imprisons Saima in the lair. However in keeping with the films utterly warped manner Saima chooses to stab herself to death rather than to compromise her "izzat"
Izzat (Honor)
Izzat refers to the concept of honor prevalent in the culture of North India and Pakistan. It applies universally across religions , communities and genders...
(honour) as any normal "honourable" woman would (should?) do. Shamoon has her stitched up in the nick of time, yet she remains merely a captive pet for her tormentor, waiting for the first opportunity to flee. Saima is rescued from Shamoon's clutches one night by Moosa and whisked away to freedom, but just when she is beginning to take a fancy to her rescuer it's revealed that all he intended to do was use her as part of a transaction or agreement. Saima is stunned when Moosa gives her over to another set of captors .Saima begs him not to do this, but he continues to walk away, stone faced and impassive. As Moosa is about to mount onto his horse and ride off into the distance, Saima comes up with a brainwave; she takes to covering her head with a scarf
Scarf
A scarf is a piece of fabric worn around the neck, or near the head or around the waist for warmth, cleanliness, fashion or for religious reasons. They can come in a variety of different colours.-History:...
(in dramatic slow-motion) and starts reciting the words (with added echo effect) of the Quran in a last ditch effort to get through to the stubborn Moosa. When Saima reaches a crescendo with the retort of "Kya tum Moosa nahin ho" (Are you not Moosa?) her words finally seem to hit the right spot and suddenly Moosa assumes the role that his father the saintly Maulvi had always dreamed of.
Moosa forcefully bludgeons his way through the fully armed opposition and rescues again and makes away with Saima to the safety of the forest where they are joined by his childhood chum Georgie (Rembo). Love blossoms and Saima and Moosa get married and build their dream home away from the troubles of the world but Shamoon's henchmen are constantly searching every inch of the forest in order to recover Saima and destroy Moosa and it is a matter of time before they discover the mountainside home. Meanwhile Saima
Saima
Saima is a Pakistani actress from Multan, who appears in Punjabi and Urdu films.Saima's debut movie was Griban in 1987, as a supporting actress. Her second film was Khatarnaak directed by Akram Khan. She was cast for the main lead in it and released in 1990. She was discovered at the time when...
produces a child-thing and forces her husband to bury his weapons and to take to praying for solace.
One fateful day while the ghastly tot/child and father are away hunting, Shamoon's horrible henchmen show up. There follows the usual bloodbath and mayhem as sprog
Sprog
Sprog can refer to:* a slang term for a child* Sprog , a graphical tool to build Perl programs by plugging parts together* a plant that takes the place of grass on the fictional planet Snaiad.* nickname of Mark Williams...
and dad return to begin their jihad. In one of the more hysterical scenes of the movie we have Moosa performing his prayers when a goon with a huge machine gun arrives firing shot after shot at Moosa, but these giant bullets float in Matrix
The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...
-like slow motion towards our hero and each time by divine intervention they somehow fail to hit their target. In a moment of sublime ridiculousness Moosa in fact catches the last bullet in mid air and tosses it aside disdainfully before striding out, (angels in full battle cry by now) to purge the land of all evil.
Cast
- SaimaSaimaSaima is a Pakistani actress from Multan, who appears in Punjabi and Urdu films.Saima's debut movie was Griban in 1987, as a supporting actress. Her second film was Khatarnaak directed by Akram Khan. She was cast for the main lead in it and released in 1990. She was discovered at the time when...
- ShaanShaan (Actor)Shaan is a Pakistani actor, writer and director. Upon making his debut in Javed Fazil's Bulandi alongside Reema Khan, Shaan has acted in numerous commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors of Pakistan.- Family and early life :Armaghan Shahid was born...
- NoorNoor-In fiction:*Noor , the play by Akbar Ahmed*Noor, an album by the metal band Adorned Brood*Noor , Arabic title for the Turkish soap opera Gümüş-Places:*Noor, Iran, a city in northern Iran and capital of the Noor county...
- Jan Rambo
- Laila
- Tariq Shah
- Abid AliAbid AliSyed Abid Ali is a former all-rounder Indian cricketer. He was a watchful lower order batsman, a medium pace bowler and a brilliant fielder.-Early life:...
- Nayyar Ejaz
- AdeebAdeebMuzaffar Adeeb was a Pakistani film actor. He appeared in 38 films from 1940 to 1998, although he did not start performing in films until 1950s...
- Ahmad Mithu
- JahangirJahangirJahangir was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1605 until his death. The name Jahangir is from Persian جهانگیر,meaning "Conqueror of the World"...
- Mughal
- Masood AkhtarMasood AkhtarMasood Akhtar is popular Pakistani singer. He has fan base stretching from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pashtun areas of Balochistan to southern parts of Afghanistan, and has achieved much recognition. Masood sings in several languages: Pashto, Urdu, Hindko- Origin :Masood was born in Mardan, Khyber...
- Hamyun Qureshi
- Shafqat CheemaShafqat CheemaShafqat Cheema is a well-known Pakistani film actor and director who has acted roles in many Urdu and Punjabi-language Lollywood films. He is notably known to have played the role of an antagonist in the 2011 blockbuster film Bol.-Filmography:...
- Bidya Rao