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Jinnah: The True Story

Jinnah: The True Story (2020) is an experimental film that presents the biography of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, from his own point of view. It is written, produced and directed by Khurram Ali Shafique , who has twice received the Presidential Iqbal Award for some of his previous work.

Although Jinnah: The True Story is feature-length (109 minutes) and aims at recreating the experience of watching an epic drama, it does not include on-screen acting roles. As a film, it relies instead on voiceovers, visuals, soundtrack and the occasional on-screen appearance of the writer-director.

The official presenters of this film are Marghdeen (the website of Shafique) and Allied Marketing Pvt Ltd , while a number of organizations and individuals have also contributed towards its making. Its cast of voice artists includes some famous names who are also lending voice to the Urdu version of the Turkish blockbuster TV serial Ertugral Ghazi . Veterans of cinema and showbiz industry who provided technical advice in the making of this film are the superstar Faisal Rehman , Ehteshamuddin (the director of the box office hit Superstar ), actor-director Saife Hasan and the singer-composer Faisal Latif .

The movie has been released through YouTube (on the channel Khurramsdesk ).

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Associate director, associate producer, technical consultants, sound engineer, still photographs, online promotion, research mangement, voice artists, special thanks to, thanks for supporting the project, presentation.

The following is a list of credits approximately as they appear at the end of the film and the description on YouTube (with some additional information about image credits). Further details are available on this website on separate pages about the author , team , supporters and soundtrack .

Khurram Ali Shafique

Shamshad Ali Khan

(You can find more details on the Soundtracks page ).

• Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven Fur Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt
• The Blue Danube by John Strauss, Jr.
• Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
• Les Toreador by Georges Bizet
• Habanera by Georges Bizet
• In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg
• Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
• God Save the Queen performed by US Navy Band

All soundtracks are from YouTube Audio Library except “God Save the Queen” and “Rule Britannia” from Wikimedia Commons

• Faisal Rehman
• Ehteshamuddin
• Faisal Latif
• Saife Hasan

Raheel Siddiqui

The Shutter Freaks Studio, Waheed Murad Road, Karachi

• Cinematographer: Sheikh Ali Sultan
• Assistants: Syed Ali Abbas Shah and Muhammad Qasim

Still photographs used and modified in this film either belong to public domain, or have been shown on a fair use basis, or obtained according to the standard policies of websites, including the following.

• The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London
• National Portrait Gallery, London
• Imperial War Museums, London
• Royal Collection Trust, London
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
• Library of Congress, Washington, DC
• New York Public Library’s Public Domain Archive
• NASA Earth Observatory, Maryland
• US National Archives and Records Administration
• Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney (flickr photostream)
• Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
• Cambridge Digital Library: Royal Commonwealth Society
• The London School of Economics and Political Science
• Tokyo University of Foreign Studies C-DATS
• Frances W. Pritchett page at Columbia University
• Pakistan Association of New Zealand (PANZ)
• Huffington Post
• Rochdale Online
• Muslim Link Canada’s Online Hub
• The Daily New Nation, Bangladesh
• Asian Tribune, Sri Lanka
• Dawn Group of Newspapers, Pakistan
• The Express Tribune, Pakistan
• The Nation, Pakistan
• Neo News HD, Pakistan
• Kashmir Awareness at Launchgood
• Twitter Account of Pakistan Government
• Twitter account of Pakistan Embassy in Turkey
• Jumaane Williams (Twitter account)
• PakTurkey (BlogSpot)
• Maitex-2014 (BlogSpot)
• Asad Rahim Khan’s Website
• Internet Archives
• Project Gutenberg
• Wikimedia Commons

Images used via Wikimedia Commons and modified include the following works distributed under CC BY-SA 2.5, 3.0 or 4.0 (links are also being provided to the individual pages of the users if they existed at Wikimedia Commons at the time of this writing):

• Mohammed Ali Jinnah Memorial Mosque, St. Joseph, Trinidad by Grueslayer
• Quetta Ziarat Residency Snowfall by Muzamil Hussain Toori
• Quaid-e-Azam Residency, Ziarat, Pakistan by SpidErxD
• Mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam by Farrah Zakir
• Muzaffarabad from top by Zeeshan Waqas
• Parliament House, Islamabad by Usman Ghani
• K2 2006 by Svy123
• SAARC Secretariat at Kathmandu by Srijana Timsina
• Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Jeddah by Tahir MQ
• Hitler 1928 from German Federal Archive
• Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom by Sodacan
• Aum – The Symbol of Arya Samaj by Bhavesh Dasadiya
• Ahsan Manzil, Puran Dhaka by Parsha Shaira Sarwar
• Ahsan Manzil, Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka by Sourav Das
• Chateaubriand by Aimé Millet by Ash Crow
• Palace of Westminster, London – 2007 by David Iliff
• Minar-e-Pakistan by Ammar Ejaz
• Front view of the Jinnah hospital, Kabul by Umairjibran7
• J innah’s bust in York University, Toronto by Andrevruas
• T o the mountains, Tehran by Julia Maudlin
• “No to police brutality” by Diplomat Tester Man
• 53 feet high map of India by Diplomat Tester Man
• A huge art installation at the site of Shaheen Bagh protests by Diplomat Tester Man
• Shaheen Bagh Protests 26 January 2020 by Dey Subrata
• Protest against India blockade to Nepal by Sam Shrestha

Illustrations by Haddy Hass for “Jinnah’s case for Pakistan” © Hady Hass; and portrait of Mary Parker Follett by Rabia Javed © Topline Publishers have been used with the owners’ permission.

All graphics belong to their respective owners. It is not being suggested in any way that they endorse us or our use.

• Raazia Attique
• Topline Publishers

Khurram Ali Shafique as Narrator (On-screen and Voiceover)

In the order of appearance.

• Shamshad Ali Khan as Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Syeda Marium Rizvi as Narrator
• Shuja Ullah Khan as Dadabhai Naoroji, as H. G. Wells
• Asif Ilyas as Surendranath Banerjee, as Hindu Mahasabha
• Basit Faryad as Dr Sir Muhammad Iqbal, as Edwin Montagu, as Clement Attlee
• Faisal Rehman for Poetry Recital
• Raheel Siddiqui as Jogendra Nath Mandal
• Zain Mukhi as Liaquat Ali Khan

Quaid-i-Azam Academy for access to their collection

(You can find more details on the  Supporters’ page ).

• Libredux UK
• Musarat Jamal Khurshid Trust
• Nayyer Sultana
• Kanwal Zubair
• M. Suheyl Umar
• Pervaiz Kausar
• Razia Ahmad

This movie is a non-commercial educational presentation from Marghdeen and Allied Marketing Pvt Ltd

© MMXX Khurram Ali Shafique. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution or copying of this film or any part thereof is an infringement of the relevant copyright and may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

(1876-1948)

Who Was Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

Muhammad Ali Jinnah he joined the Indian National Congress in 1906. Seven years later, he joined the India Muslim League. The independent state of Pakistan that Jinnah had envisioned came to be on August 14, 1947. The following day, he was sworn in as Pakistan’s first governor-general. On September 11, 1948, he died near Karachi, Pakistan.

Jinnah was born in a rented apartment on the second floor of Wazir Mansion in Karachi, Pakistan (then part of India), on December 25, 1876. At the time of his birth, Jinnah’s official name was Mahomedali Jinnahbhai. The eldest of his parents’ seven children, Jinnah was underweight and appeared fragile at the time of his birth. But Jinnah’s mother, Mithibai, was convinced her delicate infant would one day achieve great things. Jinnah’s father, Jinnahbhai Poonja, was a merchant and exporter of cotton, wool, grain and range of other goods. As a whole, the family belonged to the Khoja Muslim sect.

When Jinnah was 6 years old, his father placed him in the Sindh Madrasatul-Islam School. Jinnah was far from a model student. He was more interested in playing outside with his friends than focusing on his studies. As the proprietor of a thriving trade business, Jinnah’s father emphasized the importance of studying mathematics, but, ironically, arithmetic was among Jinnah’s most hated subjects.

When Jinnah was nearly 11 years old, his only paternal aunt came to visit from Bombay, India. Jinnah and his aunt were very close. The aunt suggested that Jinnah return with her to Bombay; she believed the big city would provide him with a better education than Karachi could. Despite his mother’s resistance, Jinnah accompanied his aunt back to Bombay, where she enrolled him in the Gokal Das Tej Primary School. Despite the change of scenery, Jinnah continued to prove himself a restless and unruly student. Within just six months he was sent back to Karachi. His mother insisted he attend Sind Madrassa, but Jinnah was expelled for cutting classes to go horseback riding.

Jinnah’s parents then enrolled him in the Christian Missionary Society High School, hoping he would be better able to concentrate on his studies there. As a teen, Jinnah developed an admiration for his father’s business colleague, Sir Frederick Leigh Croft. When Croft offered Jinnah an internship in London, Jinnah jumped at the chance, but Jinnah’s mother was not so eager for him to accept the offer. Fearful of being separated from her son, she persuaded him to marry before leaving for his trip. Presumably she believed his marriage would ensure his eventual return.

At his mother’s urging, the 15-year-old Jinnah entered into an arranged marriage with his 14-year-old bride, Emibai, in February 1892. Emibai was from the village of Paneli in India, and the wedding took place in her hometown. Following the marriage, Jinnah continued attending the Christian Missionary Society High School until he left for London. He departed Karachi in January of 1893. Jinnah would never see his wife or his mother again. Emibai died a few months after Jinnah’s departure. Devastatingly, Jinnah’s mother, Mithibai, also passed away during his stay in London.

After disembarking at Southampton and taking the boat train to Victoria Station, Jinnah rented a hotel room in London. He would eventually, however, settle at the home of Mrs. F.E. Page-Drake of Kensington, who had invited Jinnah to stay as a guest.

After a few months of serving his internship, in June of 1893 Jinnah left the position to join Lincoln’s Inn, a renowned legal association that helped law students study for the bar. Over the next few years, Jinnah prepared for the legal exam by studying biographies and political texts that he borrowed from the British Museum Library and read in the barristers’ chambers. While studying for the bar, Jinnah heard the terrible news of his wife and mother’s deaths, but he managed to forge on with his education. In addition to fulfilling his formal studies, Jinnah made frequent visits to the House of Commons, where he could observe the powerful British government in action firsthand. When Jinnah passed his legal exam in May of 1896, he was the youngest ever to have been accepted to the bar.

With his law degree in hand, in August 1896 Jinnah moved to Bombay and set up a law practice as a barrister in Bombay’s high court. Jinnah would continue to practice as a barrister up through the mid-1940s. Jinnah’s most famous successes as a lawyer included the Bawla murder trial of 1925 and Jinnah’s 1945 defense of Bishen Lal at Agra, which marked the final case of Jinnah’s legal career.

During Jinnah’s visits to the House of Commons, he had developed a growing interest in politics, deeming it a more glamorous field than law. Now in Bombay, Jinnah began his foray into politics as a liberal nationalist. When Jinnah’s father joined him there, he was deeply disappointed in his son’s decision to change career paths and, out of anger, withdrew his financial support. Fortunately, the two had mended fences by the time Jinnah’s father died in April 1902.

Jinnah was particularly interested in the politics of India and its lack of strong representation in British Parliament. He was inspired when he saw Dadabhai Naoroji become the first Indian to earn a seat in the House of Commons. In 1904, Jinnah attended a meeting of the Indian National Congress. In 1906 he joined the congress himself. In 1912, Jinnah attended a meeting of the All India Muslim League, prompting him to join the league the following year. Jinnah would later join yet another political party, the Home Rule League, which was dedicated to the cause of a state’s right to self-government.

In the midst of Jinnah’s thriving political career, he met a 16-year-old named Ratanbai while on vacation in Darjeeling. After "Rutti" turned 18 and converted to Islam, the two were married on April 19, 1918. Rutti gave birth to Jinnah’s first and only child, a daughter named Dina, in 1919.

As a member of Congress, Jinnah at first collaborated with Hindu leaders as their Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity, while working with the Muslim League simultaneously. Gradually, Jinnah realized that the Hindu leaders of Congress held a political agenda that was incongruent with his own. Earlier he had been aligned with their opposition to separate electorates meant to guarantee a fixed percentage of legislative representation for Muslims and Hindus. But in 1926, Jinnah shifted to the opposite view and began supporting separate electorates. Still, overall, he retained the belief that the rights of Muslims could be protected in a united India. At that stage of his political career, Jinnah left Congress and dedicated himself more fully to the Muslim League.

By 1928 Jinnah’s busy political career had taken a toll on his marriage. He and his second wife separated. Rutti lived as a recluse at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay for the next year, until she died on her 29th birthday.

During the 1930s Jinnah attended the Anglo-Indian Round Table Conferences in London, and led the reorganization of the All India Muslim League.

Independent Pakistan

By 1939 Jinnah came to believe in a Muslim homeland on the Indian subcontinent. He was convinced that this was the only way to preserve Muslims’ traditions and protect their political interests. His former vision of Hindu-Muslim unity no longer seemed realistic to him at this time.

During a 1940 meeting of the Muslim League at Lahore, Jinnah proposed the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan, in the area where Muslims constitute a majority. At this juncture, Jinnah was both displeased with Mohandas Gandhi's stance at the London Round Table Conference in 1939, and frustrated with the Muslim League. Much to Jinnah’s chagrin, the Muslim League was on the verge of merging with the National League, with the goal of participating in provincial elections and potentially conceding to the establishment of a united India with majority Hindu rule.

To Jinnah’s relief, in 1942 the Muslim League adopted the Pakistan Resolution to partition India into states. Four years later, Britain sent a cabinet mission to India to outline a constitution for transfer of power to India. India was then divided into three territories. The first was a Hindu majority, which makes up present-day India. The second was a Muslim area in the northwest, to be designated as Pakistan. The third was made up of Bengal and Assam, with a narrow Muslim majority. After a decade, the provinces would have the choice of opting out on the formation of a new federation. But when the Congress president expressed objections to implementing the plan, Jinnah also voted against it. The independent state of Pakistan that Jinnah had envisioned came to be on August 14, 1947. The following day, Jinnah was sworn in as Pakistan’s first governor-general. He was also made president of Pakistan's constituent assembly shortly before his death.

Death and Legacy

On September 11, 1948, just a little over a year after he became governor-general, Jinnah died of tuberculosis near Karachi, Pakistan — the place where he was born.

Today, Jinnah is credited with having altered the destiny of Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. According to Richard Symons, Muhammad Ali Jinnah "contributed more than any other man to Pakistan’s survival." Jinnah’s dream for Pakistan was based on the principles of social justice, brotherhood and equality, which he aimed to achieve under his motto of "Faith, Unity, and Discipline." In the wake of his death, Jinnah’s successors were tasked with consolidating the nation of Pakistan that Jinnah had so determinedly established.

QUICK FACTS

• Name: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Birth Year: 1876
• Birth date: December 25, 1876
• Birth City: Karachi
• Birth Country: Pakistan
• Gender: Male
• Best Known For: Muslim statesman Muhammad Ali Jinnah led Pakistan’s independence from British-controlled India and was its first governor-general and president of its constituent assembly.
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• Astrological Sign: Capricorn
• Sindh Madrasatul-Islam
• Lincoln’s Inn
• Sind Madrassa
• University of Bombay
• Gokal Das Tej Primary School
• Christian Missionary Society High School
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• Death Year: 1948
• Death date: September 11, 1948
• Death City: Karachi
• Death Country: Pakistan

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Jinnah (1998)

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Jinnah is a 1998 epic biographical film which follows the life of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. It was directed by Jamil Dehlavi; and written by Akbar S. Ahmed and Jamil Dehlavi. The film was released in 1998 in the United Kingdom and Pakistan.

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Directed by Jamil Dehlavi

He fought for justice, and made Pakistan.

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

Christopher Lee James Fox Maria Aitken Shashi Kapoor Richard Lintern Indira Varma Sam Dastor Robert Ashby Shireen Shah Yousuf Kamal Ian Gelder Michael Elwyn John Nettleton David Sterne Vernon Dobtcheff Rowena Cooper

Director Director

Jamil Dehlavi

Producer Producer

Writers writers.

Akbar Ahmed Jamil Dehlavi

Casting Casting

Editors editors.

Paul Hodgson Robert M. Reitano

Cinematography Cinematography

Nicholas D. Knowland

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

Akbar Ahmed

Production Design Production Design

Michael Porter

Composers Composers

Michael Csányi-Wills Nigel Clarke

Costume Design Costume Design

Barbara Rutter

Dehlavi Films The Quaid Project Petra Film

Pakistan UK

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02 sep 1998, 07 nov 1998, releases by country.

• Premiere A Montréal Film Festival
• Theatrical NR
• Theatrical U London Film Festival

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Review by Trent Kinnucan ★★★½

Christopher Lee was certainly a larger-than-life personality. He narrowly dodged death in World War II. He briefly courted Swedish royalty. He claimed descendance from Emperor Barbarossa (as well as distant relation to Ian Fleming, John Lee, and Robert E. Lee). He lent his voice to a string of heavy metal albums. He also stood 6'5", dressed impeccably, and possessed an intensely commanding Basso Profundo.

As an actor, Lee was among the first great franchise actors, and certainly one of the most resilient. Lee first truly asserted himself as an actor in the Hammer Horror films, starring memorably as Dracula. After gracing a litany of such films, he diversified into roles such as Rochefort in The Three Musketeers, and Bond Villain…

Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★★★ 2

There are some actors so gifted, that despite having rich careers, they never get a role truly worthy of their talents. As fond as I am of Christopher Lee's Drive Bee wit matching nefarious deeds in The Stupids (1996) - Jinnah represents a genuine challenge for the seasoned star. The actor has frequently spoken about this take on Pakistan's founder, as his finest performance, and despite some local pushback related to his blood drinking typecast, delivers a thoughtful, complex, nuanced, and memorable take on Muhammed Ali Jinnah - which functions as a respectful counterpoint to the less than historically accurate version of the man seen in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982). A number of legal issues relegated this to the festival…

Review by Iskandaria Hassan 🪬

rancid, a film about Jinnah told through memories as he sees them where he is the sole force of dignity, played by not just one but 2 different white men, the partition of india remains an atrocity today, the direct precedent of the atrocities committed against the ppl of Jammu and Kashmir, the people of Bangladesh, crimes against Muslims and Hindus and Christians and Sikhs in both Pakistan and India, and all we can remember is how pretty the glint of sunshine looks as educated desis go and court british women, but theres still something here, the picking and choosing when to embrace a 2 nation theory and when to look towards the intertwined desi society, the glint of light…

Review by Asjad ★★★★

From his turbulent life outside cinema to the wide range of roles he inhabited in films, Christopher Lee is undoubtedly one of the most interesting figures in all of cinema. While he had an illustrious career, his choice for the best performance of his own career is one that has been in relative obscurity. The role in question is Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam of Pakistan.

Jinnah is a very unorthodox biopic. From its bizarre "A Christmas Carol/It's a Wonderful Life" style structure where Jinnah evaluates his entire life and the effects he had on various people with the Shashi Kapoor character as a guide who is credited simply as "narrator." This unique structure gave Dehlavi the freedom to bounce…

Review by nicole ★★★★

rather wary of the film right from the get-go, for pop culture simply doesn't know how to portray jinnah, often painting him as merely a petty man. though i see why: jinnah wasn't an easy character to understand, often cryptic in mannerisms and speech.

worries only grew when the film tried to embark from his afterlife, debating whether he should be whisked away to the doors of heaven or dragged down the depths of hell. i was afraid it might get too campy for a man like jinnah, though i found it very well done.

christopher lee was phenomenal in this. i found him perfect. how do you make a man so boring come to life on screen? he manages…

Review by Shayan ★★★★

I'm kinda biased to it as it as about the birth of my nation. To me its good and near perfect the world can have a different opinion

Review by Mark Tinta ★★

Christopher Lee cited his performance in the title role of this biopic of barrister-turned-politician and Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah as the best and most important work of his career, but it's a film that's been notoriously difficult to see over the last 25 years. Unseen in America until it aired on TCM in October 2016 when Lee was their "Star of the Month," this 1998 Pakistan/UK co-production gave Lee his largest late-career role in a prestige period project that can be seen as a counterpoint of sorts to Richard Attenborough's GANDHI (Jinnah was played in that film by Alyque Padamsee). It hits the expected biopic bullet points, but suffers from a hokey structure that's equal parts A CHRISTMAS CAROL…

Review by Jon Peters ★★★★

In what Christopher Lee not only called one of his most important roles of his long and storied career, but also called the Pakistan media slandering coverage of the film, " sloppy journalism " for the News International calling his casting in a negative connotation with " Dracula cast as the father of the nation " as a headline. JINNAH (1998) is a film that should be celebrated for the historical aspects of the birth of Pakistan and the life of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of the country, who believed that the Muslims of the subcontinent should have their own state to avoid the possible marginalised status they may gain in an independent Hindu–Muslim state in the post-WWII British relinquished colonial India.…

Review by Wilson ★★

I will leave the decision on whether it was appropriate for Christopher Lee to play Muhammad Ali Jinnah for greater minds, other than to say that Lee's performance is pretty perceptive, and completely respectful. Though, the darkened skin tone that Lee requires, achieved through make-up, is as uncomfortable as you'd expect.

If anything the film is too respectful, as a riposte to Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, it takes a look at Jinnah, in soft-focus cinematography, and tries to skirt around most of the difficult issues. I know that it is quite popular to criticise Gandhi (the film) these days, but that is a much superior and impressive work.

What you have with Jinnah is a bizarre framing device that occasionally drifts…

Review by schemeaffect ★★★★★

This movie blends Jinnah's timelines in a way that can only be considered a dream. While that may seem strange, when I ask my grandparents about the time of partition, the memories are hazy, smoky, and beautiful. They're more dream-like than anything tangible. This movie may take a lot of liberties, but more than anything, it captures the feeling of Jinnah — the feeling of the dream of Pakistan in 1947.

Review by Graham Williamson ★★

"it’s easy to understand why Jinnah shies away from anything too controversial, but it’s a shame nonetheless. Best to appreciate it as an earnest plea for peace and independence, one which even takes the time to understand Jinnah’s great rival Mahatma Gandhi, lensed in nostalgic sepia tones by Nicholas Knowland."

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Review by LouisMorgan ★★★

An admirable attempt to give substance to a character who was short shrifted as largely an antagonist in Gandhi, and to attempt to give a bit more depth to the start of the partition which was handled by a hard-cut in Gandhi. Admirable, though not entirely successful. Aspects of it unfortunately do feel like "discount store Gandhi" in terms of production values, the direction and especially the performance of Gandhi. If Gandhi struggled to include every bit of history involved from Gandhi life in over three years, this feel really struggles to include it in less than two hours. All of which it attempts through a questionable framing device of a deceased Jinnah attempting to explain his actions to court…

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• Release Date: 1998-11-07
• User Rating: 7.1 / 10 from 22 ratings
• Runtime: 1h 50min
• Language: English
• Production Company: Dehlavi Films
• Production Country: Pakistan
• Director: Jamil Dehlavi

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

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• Country: UK
• Language: English
• Runtime: 110
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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• Certificate: 15
• Subtitles: English SDH
• Genre: Drama
• SKU: EKA70227
• Release Date: Nov 28, 2016

An epic biopic about the life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the man who founded the Muslim nation of Pakistan in the wake of Great Britain’s relinquishment of control over India.

After his death in 1948, Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Christopher Lee) awaits final judgement in the afterlife and must tell the story of his life, before celestial bureaucrats decide his fate. His story covers the intense political strife and bloody events that led to the formation of the Muslim nation of Pakistan.

Attracting much controversy during production, but released to great acclaim, particularly in Pakistan, Jamil Dehlavi’s Jinnah is an intelligent and moving piece of cinema, with a performance by Sir Christopher Lee that he personally believed to be the finest of his career.

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• 1080p High Definition transfer on the Blu-ray, with a progressive encode on the DVD
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Original trailer

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Jinnah (film)

Jinnah is a 1998 Pakistani British epic biographical film which follows the life of the founder of Pakistan , Muhammad Ali Jinnah . It was directed by Jamil Dehlavi ; and written by Akbar S. Ahmed and Jamil Dehlavi .

• 3 Soundrack
• 4 Critical Reception
• 5 Accolades
• 7 References
• 8.1 Reviews

The film opens with the words of Professor Stanley Wolpert : Template:Cquote

The guide takes Jinnah to 1947 where, at the Cromwell conference with Lord Mountbatten , Jinnah demanded a homeland for Indian Muslims. After World War 2 , the British Imperial Government intends to withdraw and grant independence to the subcontinent. This would mean a Hindu-dominated state. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims were increasing after the Second World War . Flashbacks resume when the Guide recounts the marital life of Jinnah, when he fell in love and married a Parsi named Rattanbai Petit , later known against the will of her parents, mainly on grounds of religion and the difference in their ages. In 1922, Jinnah faces political isolation as he devoted every spare moment to be the voice of moderation in a nation torn by Hindu-Muslim antipathy. That created tension between Rattanbai and Jinnah. She finally leaves him with their daughter in September 1922, and they eventually separate in 1927. Rattanbai died of cancer on 18 February 1929. The death of Rattanbai had a huge impact on Jinnah's life and his fight for Pakistan. He went back to British India in order to start a political journey of the two-nation theory . In 1940, the Muslim League annual conference is held from 22 to 24 March. Jinnah addresses thousands of Muslims and gives them the assurance of the birth of Pakistan.

The Guide questions Jinnah as to who he loves the most apart from Ruttie and Fatima. He then mentioned his daughter, who married a Parsi boy without his permission.

While he was addressing a Muslim League conference in 1947, Muslims fanatics attacked the conference and argued that if Pakistan is to be a Muslim state it cannot give equal rights to women and non-Muslims. Jinnah replies that Islam doesn't need fanatics but people with vision who can build the country. However, the Independence of Pakistan was carried out, and the Guide and Jinnah saw the massacre of Muslims in migration done by Hindus and Sikhs. Jinnah is sworn in as the first Governor-General of Pakistan and announces Liaqat Ali Khan as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan .

After independence and the end of British rule , Pakistan stands as a new nation and sanctuary for the Muslims of the subcontinent. Jinnah is given the title of Quaid-e-Azam of Pakistan. Jinnah waits for the first train carrying Muslims who left India for Pakistan, but when the train arrives, they are all found dead save for one infant child. Fatimah and Lady Edwina Mountbatten visit refugees and Lady Mountbatten learns the importance of independence. Mountbatten betrays Jinnah as the Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir , Sir Hari Singh , stalls his decision on which nation to join. With the population in revolt in October 1947, aided by Pakistani irregulars, the Maharaja accedes to India; Indian troops are airlifted in. Jinnah objects to that and orders that Pakistani troops move into Kashmir, which leads to a war between India and Pakistan then and afterward from time to time in the Kashmir conflict .

The film jumps into a final fictional scene of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (last Viceroy of British India ) in a Heavenly Court. Jinnah is fighting a case against him over his betrayal. The film ends with Jinnah and his angel judge traveling back in time to the scene of Muslim refugees. Jinnah expresses his sorrow over the plight of the refugees and result during the division of Punjab . They chant " Pakistan Zindabad " in response, which ends the film.

• Christopher Lee as Mohammad Ali Jinnah
• Shashi Kapoor as Narrator
• James Fox as Lord Louis Mountbatten
• Maria Aitken as Edwina Mountbatten
• Richard Lintern as Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Younger)
• Shireen Shah as Fatima Jinnah
• Indira Varma as Rattanbai ('Ruttie') Jinnah
• Robert Ashby as Jawaharlal Nehru
• Sam Dastor as Mahatma Gandhi
• Shakeel as Liaquat Ali Khan
• Vaneeza Ahmed as Dina Wadia (Older)
• Roger Brierley as Judge
• Vernon Dobtcheff as Lord Willingdon
• Rowena Cooper as Lady Willingdon
• James Curran as Colonel Knowles
• Michael Elwyn as Sir Cyril Radcliffe
• Ian Gelder as the English police officer
• Christopher Godwin as Recruitment officer In charge
• John Grillo as Sir Dinshaw Petit
• Talat Hussain as Refugee
• John Nettleton as General Gracie
• David Quilter as Porrit
• Khayyam Sarhadi as Abdur Rab Nishtar
• David Sterne as Birtwhistle
• Marc Zuber as Allama Muhammad Iqbal
• Shahid Iqbal as Barrister M. C. Chagla
• Mervyn Hosein as Abul Kalam Azad
• Stephen Mortlock as the English Reporter
• Sana Sameer Fetouh as Zakiya

Soundrack [ ]

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Critical Reception [ ]

It received an overwhelmingly positive response in Pakistan. Christopher Lee spoke highly of the film, calling his performance in it the best of his career as well as stressing the importance of the film. [1] [2]

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However, the casting of Christopher Lee in lead role lead to a large amount of media controversy in Pakistan because of his previous roles in vampire films, with Lee having received death threats which required personal bodyguards during filming. [3]

Accolades [ ]

• Grand Prize - Zanzibar International Film Festival
• Best International Film - World Film Awards, Indonesia
• Gold Award Best Foreign Film - Worldfest Flagstaff
• Silver Award, 1999 - WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival [4]
• Golden Pyramid Award Nomination - Cairo International Film Festival

See also [ ]

• List of Islamic films
• Cinema in Pakistan

References [ ]

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External links [ ]

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• Christopher Lee on the making of legends and Jinnah
• Christopher Lee launches film about Jinnah in London (Asians in Media Magazine)

Reviews [ ]

• Troubled Jinnah movie opens (BBC News, September, 1998)
• IO Film Reviews
• Close-up Film Review: Jinnah
• "Jinnah the Movie" reviews by Rizwan

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• ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE_1ofnBFos
• ↑ Worldfest - List of Winners: All Previous Years , Worldfest .
• 1 Kidzone Pakistan
• 2 The Glassworker
• 3 Doraemon in Pakistan

Jinnah (1998): Jamil Dehlavi's controversial biopic on Muhammad Ali Jinnah starring Sir Christopher Lee in the titular role

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