I'm an Indian who wanted to learn about Mr. Jinnah. But, I didn't learn a lot of new stuff and was a quite disappointed.
The good stuff: 1.Lee's acting was quite good and he was quite good for the part. Though he is not Ben Kinsley, he is the main pivot here.
2. Mahatma and Nehru, though portrayed by weak actors, were not depicted too negatively.
3.For a Pakistani film, the film was reasonably professional.
Bad stuff: 1. Younger Jinnah (Lintern) never looked/spoke remotely South Asian. It looked more like the director was trying too much to play to the Western audience.
2. A lot of times the scenes were ridiculous like Gandhiji staring his computer etc.
3. Jinnah's sister in most of the movie really looked like a witch, and maybe she was one.
4. Throughout the movie the Hindus were predators and muslims were shown the prey/reactors. On the contrary while only 10% of Muslims were forced to flee India, 90% of Hindus in Pakistan were either slaughtered or become refugees in India. If Hindus were as blood thirsty as was portrayed in the movie, we would not have let 200 million muslims to stay in our country. Both sides had their victims and evil forces.
5.Maharaja of Kashmir signed the ascension to India after Jinnah invaded Kashmir while the movie totally ignored the crucial fact.
6. There was far too much stress on Edwina-Nehru that at some point I felt it was Nehru/Edwina's biopic rather than Jinnah's.
7. If Civil disobedience and Nonviolence made one a Hindu as depicted in the movie, then Rev. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Henry Thoreau must all be Hindus! Nonviolence is beyond religion and as shown in the movie, Jinnah failed to grasp it.
8. Mountbatten's portrayal was horrible. He was shown to be without humor, grace, etc.
While Pakistanis are right to claim that Jinnah created their nation for them from India, they must also remember that there would be nothing called Pakistan had British India not won her Independence. Jinnah did relatively nothing to win independence to India and that is a fact. If not for Gandhi, India would have taken a few more decades to gain independence and by that time Quaid and his ideas of Partition would have long been dead.
I would give an above-average rating of 6 for a relatively bold story telling and good acting, but on the whole it was quite disappointing.
The good stuff: 1.Lee's acting was quite good and he was quite good for the part. Though he is not Ben Kinsley, he is the main pivot here.
2. Mahatma and Nehru, though portrayed by weak actors, were not depicted too negatively.
3.For a Pakistani film, the film was reasonably professional.
Bad stuff: 1. Younger Jinnah (Lintern) never looked/spoke remotely South Asian. It looked more like the director was trying too much to play to the Western audience.
2. A lot of times the scenes were ridiculous like Gandhiji staring his computer etc.
3. Jinnah's sister in most of the movie really looked like a witch, and maybe she was one.
4. Throughout the movie the Hindus were predators and muslims were shown the prey/reactors. On the contrary while only 10% of Muslims were forced to flee India, 90% of Hindus in Pakistan were either slaughtered or become refugees in India. If Hindus were as blood thirsty as was portrayed in the movie, we would not have let 200 million muslims to stay in our country. Both sides had their victims and evil forces.
5.Maharaja of Kashmir signed the ascension to India after Jinnah invaded Kashmir while the movie totally ignored the crucial fact.
6. There was far too much stress on Edwina-Nehru that at some point I felt it was Nehru/Edwina's biopic rather than Jinnah's.
7. If Civil disobedience and Nonviolence made one a Hindu as depicted in the movie, then Rev. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Henry Thoreau must all be Hindus! Nonviolence is beyond religion and as shown in the movie, Jinnah failed to grasp it.
8. Mountbatten's portrayal was horrible. He was shown to be without humor, grace, etc.
While Pakistanis are right to claim that Jinnah created their nation for them from India, they must also remember that there would be nothing called Pakistan had British India not won her Independence. Jinnah did relatively nothing to win independence to India and that is a fact. If not for Gandhi, India would have taken a few more decades to gain independence and by that time Quaid and his ideas of Partition would have long been dead.
I would give an above-average rating of 6 for a relatively bold story telling and good acting, but on the whole it was quite disappointing.