Movie ‘Khel Khel Mein’ starring Sajal Aly and Bilal Abbas Khan has been facing backlash over its controversial trailer.
A 2 minutes 30 seconds trailer of ‘Khel Khel Mein’ is about Pakistani students who are ambitious to find out the truth behind the 1971 fall of Dhaka through a play. Directed by Nabeel Qureshi and produced by Fizza Ali Meerza, this will be the first Pakistani movie to get released post-pandemic on 19th November 2021.
The movie is all about being excessively vocal on themes that are deemed taboo in educational institutions like Bangladesh and Balochistan in an age of click-bait reporting and content. However, the trailer did not receive much appreciation as especially from Bangladeshis who seemed triggered by Sajal’s last dialogue in the trailer: ‘Ek ghalti kisi se bhi hoi, mang lete hain maafian dono.’
One of the users wrote, “What the hell are u trying to prove by this movie??!! Who told u that, we didn’t want an independent country??!!! Listen very carefully, we never wanted to be with west pakistan. Never & never. The people from west pakistan were monsters. We will never forget the night of 25th march, we will never forget 1971. We will never forgive u. Never ever. Never. We hate u from the core of our hearts.”
Another one stated: ‘Creating controversy might be your thing. If you sympathise and deliberately presenting something to prove that you were “innocent or something” is not gonna divert the history at all. Just to remind you again that Pakistan have committed genocide to 3,000,000 people and raped 200,000 mothers and daughters of my country. It Has been 50 years without any formal apology. #ApologizeToBangladesh.”
Another one wrote, ‘So u people are trying to say without any reasons or Out of Controversy they killed 30 lacs people of Bangladesh and 2 lacs Of our women were raped brutally. I really want to watch this movie to know how they have twisted the truth or have made them Look innocent or the victim of situation.’
