Most movies are preferred to be watched if the leading cast is your favourite but it happens quite a few times that viewers will watch the movie knowing who the director is.
Such is the case of director Bilal Lashari, whose impressive work we had already witnessed in the movie ‘Waar’. Now, he is back again with his high-budgeted movie ‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’, hitting the screens soon across Pakistani cinemas.
I was lucky enough to watch ‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ a few days before its release. Twenty minutes into the movie, I already knew this movie is a full-time popcorn entertainment movie as it was an action flick involving lots of bloody fights.
‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ is a story of revenge, justice, love, competition, and power. The story revolves around Sardar Jatt’s son Maula Jatt (Fawad Khan), who becomes an orphan at quite a young age.
Though he gets adopted by a woman who has already a son Mooda (Faris Shafi) but loves Maula more than her own son, unfortunately, her mother’s and Mooda’s love is not enough for Maula who later turns out to be a handsome muscular fighter yet an alcoholic.
He is adored and loved by everyone specially by Mukhoo Jattni (Mahira Khan) who is Jatt’s love interest in the movie. Soon Jatt faces Natt’s siblings (Noori, Daaro, and Maakha) children of the man who killed Jatt’s parents and that’s when the exceptional adrenaline-filled action begins.
For me, a hardcore Punjabi movie was entertaining in all the right ways and the best part is it had English subtitles. Here I would appreciate Lashari for bringing Hamza Ali Abbasi against Fawad Khan in one frame (imagine an action flick featuring muscular heartthrobs of the country fighting with his rusty ‘gandasa’).
What kept me captivated throughout the 2.30 hours movie was the portrayal of Hamza Ali Abbasi who plays Noori Natt in the movie. He is a scary heartless villain yet the audience would clap during his scenes specially when he utters the famous dialogue ‘Nawa Aayaan Aee Sohneya’.
For me, the role of Noori is confusing, he is a villain but not an evil person, he’s ruthless and vicious to the ones who deserve it and unlike his brother, he has no interest in becoming Sardar. Talking about his siblings who are Daaro (Humaima Malik) and Maakhi (Gohar Rasheed), they are their own kind (unsympathetic and greedy for power).
When I talk about the music and songs of the movie so the movie had only one song which literally gave a view of the movie ‘Waar’ (the scene where terrorists attacked an army camp). It was magical when Mukhoo sings and Maula joins her and then through great direction we see their rivals humming the same song and preparing to attack Maula Jatt.
Overall the movie’s direction was decent, certain camera angles were really innovative and I liked the fact such different things were tried despite showing the 1970s.
The direction was strong enough to hold the movie in a way that somehow grabbed your attention while being entertaining as well. The action of the movie deserves massive credit, there were some unbelievable shots and heart-pumping action that I really loved watching.
I felt proud watching the Pakistani movie which is filled with thrills, no item number, a somewhat interesting storyline, and an amazing amazing cast in one frame. ‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ ended with Maula’s famous dialogue ‘Maula Noun Maula Na Maare, Te Maula Nahin Mar Sakda’ which makes it a paisa wasool movie with a great cinematic experience!
