If I had to summarise the movie in one word, I would say it's 'forced.'
From head to toe, from the establishing shot to the end scene, from action to the placement of songs, everything was forced and outright bad.
5 minutes into the movie and I knew I had been made. That Shan with all his cynicism about other filmmakers and their tv-like films, with his image of the true film man, had fooled me dearly.
Who writes such childish dialogues? Who writes such a bad story? It was all so bad that I felt embarrassed that for some foreign cast members, this was their introduction to a Pakistani film.
It was as if a child directed that movie. A child who had just discovered slow-mo, hand-held camera sequences (or whatever that blurry crap was), and background music. Half the time, the background music was so loud and ill-placed that you won't even hear the dialogues.
The movie was so ill-planned that Urdu dubbing seemed like an after thought as half the characters were running their lips for English dialogues yet the voice coming out spoke Urdu. Urdu or English, the dialogues was plainly bad.
The only saving grace for the movie were its songs. Not their placement, not their picturization, but the melodies.
I am simply surprised that Zarrar is by the same storyteller who, in past, has given us a film like Zilleh Shah. Shan needs to stop directing himself because he isn't doing himself any favors there.
Man, the potential the idea had, yet...
