Review of Bol (2011) by Humna W — 16 Feb 2012

Watched Bol. Obviously heard a lot about the director of the movie, Shoaib Mansoor. Probably the one and only GREAT director in Pakistan. He's probably even better than most of the directors we have here in India.

His previous movie Khuda Kay Liye was stunning and with Bol he offers us a lot more and an even more powerful movie. This director brings you stuff like the Indian movie makers have never even attempted to do, even if they did.

. they'd copy a Hollywood flick. Sadly, but very true, its better than every Indian movie. It has a powerful story, the performances are not legendary but they are good enough to carry such a powerful movie over their shoulders.

A movie with such a bold script, its never gets easy for a director to execute it, specially when the director is from a place where we dont even get to watch quality stuffs. Yes we have Atif Aslam in the movie, but he has almost nothing to do apart from the usual singing stuffs he is famous for.

And the acting part, well.. he fails to deliver it. The lead actress Humaima Malik might irritate you in the part where she narrates, but she did some parts well. Of course, its a low budget movie. As said earlier, its a Pakistani movie and the movies there have a very low budget.

So that's the reason why at some point you might feel that the look of the movie is nowhere near the quality of the movie is. Would have been great if it had a bigger budget. You dont get to watch these kinds of stuff normally in that particular nation, not even in Bollywood.

All you quality movie lovers, GO AHEAD AND WATCH IT, ITS WORTH WATCHING TO SAY THE LEAST.