{"id":5562,"date":"2008-04-04T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/04\/khuda-ke-liye-name-god-landmark-pakistani-movie\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T15:41:08","slug":"khuda-ke-liye-name-god-landmark-pakistani-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/04\/khuda-ke-liye-name-god-landmark-pakistani-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Khuda ke Liye&quot; (In the Name of God) &#8211; a landmark Pakistani movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Khuda ke Liye is a landmark movie.  It is the first Pakistani movie in a long time to be released in India.  Its star cast includes Naseeruddin Shah in a cameo as the Islamic scholar who clarifies the Islamic tenets to the court.  The movie weaves together three stories \u2014 of a pop singer who comes under the influence of Islamic extremists, a Briton of Pakistani origin who is forcibly married to her cousin and a man illegally detained in the US after the Sept 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is directed by Shoaib Mansoor and the actors are Shaan, Fawad Khan, Iman Ali, Alex Edwards, and Rasheed Naz.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Pakistani actor Jawed Shaikh and Naseeruddin Shah at the Premiere in Mumbai<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/5ebbeee6-a75e-49bb-ae29-bf774378a11.jpg\" width=\"350\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\"><\/p>\n<p>and a trailer<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khuda ke Liye is a landmark movie.  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The movie weaves together three stories &#8212; of a pop singer who comes under the influence of Islamic extremists, a Briton of Pakistani origin who is forcibly married to her cousin and a man illegally detained in the US after the Sept 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is directed by Shoaib Mansoor and the actors are Shaan, Fawad Khan, Iman Ali, Alex Edwards, and Rasheed Naz.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Pakistani actor Jawed Shaikh and Naseeruddin Shah at the Premiere in Mumbai<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/5ebbeee6-a75e-49bb-ae29-bf774378a11.jpg\" width=\"350\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\"><\/p>\n<p>and a trailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Khuda ke Liye&quot; (In the Name of God) - a landmark Pakistani movie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Khuda ke Liye is a landmark movie. 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