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Moosa Khan 
Directed by Shaan Produced by Shaan Starring Shaan
Saima
Abid Ali
Shafqat Cheema
Jan Rambo
NoorMusic by Jawad Ahmad (Music/Lyrics) Distributed by Riaz Shahid Films Release date(s) December 17, 2001 Country Pakistan Language Urdu Moosa Khan (Urdu: موسی خان) is a 2001 film which was directed by Shaan. The film starred Saima, Afzal Khan and Shaan.
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Synopsis
The storyline is based around 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?
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 Mosque 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.
Cast
- Saima
- Shaan
- Noor
- Jan Rambo
- Laila
- Tariq Shah
- Abid Ali
- Nayyar Ejaz
- Adeeb
- Ahmad Mithu
- Jahangir
- Mughal
- Masood Akhtar
- Hamyun Qureshi
- Shafqat Cheema
- Bidya Rao
References
- Moosa Khan at the Internet Movie Database
External links
Categories: 2001 films | Pakistani films | Urdu-language films
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