Review
of Actor-In-Law.
By Rebecca Ursani.
This evening
I went to watch this movie expecting it to be a comic movie only but it was way too
above my expectations. This Lollywood movie directed by Nabeel Qureshi with
Fahad Mustafa, Mehwish Hayat and Om Puri in lead roles did a very nice job.
This movie actually highlighted the main problems Pakistan is going through.
The story is about an ordinary guy whose only dream is to become an actor and
he is really passionate about it but his father is likely to mock him all the
time for not becoming a lawyer like he is and thinking about achieving some
very stupid profession like acting. In the beginning Fahad, despite of giving
so many auditions finds himself rejected. After some time he happens to fight a
case for the rights of poor people and luckily wins the case and thinks of
himself as a capable actor.
The days go on and he becomes famous for fighting
for public interest and winning the cases constantly. On the other hand,
Mehwish Hayat is a journalist and belongs to Parsi community and she is the one
who records Fahad while he is fighting some case and gets him on TV channels.
Meanwhile Om Puri is gone on Hajj pilgrimage, Fahad enjoys his constant
victory. On Om Puri’s return he finds out about his son’s drama he had been
playing after him and kicks him out of his home disappointingly. When Mehwish
figures out about Fahad’s reality, she records a video in his defense, saying
that nobody cares about what he did for public interest but now as his real
face is exposed, everyone has stepped against him. In the end Fahad’s case is
fought by his own father and surprisingly the win the case and Fahad is
released of accusation. The story ends with Fahad proposing Mehwish.
All the weaknesses of our society have
been showed in this movie. How a woman is bound to live according to the men in
his life and how a woman cannot speak for her own right because of IZZAT of her
family, the load shedding which has become like a life
partner of our lives now sadly, how politicians react before and after the
elections and so on.
I personally liked Fahad a lot in this
movie. Mehwish was better in this movie than Jawani Phir Nahi Ani. The music
was good but not extraordinary. Picturization and production was really well too. I actually enjoyed this movie a lot that I had
to write a review on this.
