Yalghaar - Playing with Patriotism
By: Omair Alavi If you are as proud of Pakistan Army as the patriotic Pakistani, then Yalghaar is the must-watch film for you this Eid. If your sentiments don’t match the jingoistic Pakistani, don’t dare enter the cinema, as you will not feel compatible to the narrative shown on the screen. Yalghaar is a declared Propaganda film where the jawans are shown battling the enemies of the state and if you are to sum up the state of jawans, it is once a soldier, always a soldier! The Plot Colonel Asad (Shaan Shahid) and his team are the best in the business and they want to go for one more mission before going on vacations. The mission was to kill Torjan (Humayun Saeed) who was everything once can have in a bad guy. He abducts women, kills namazis when they are praying and deprives people of their wealth, hence is declared wajibu qatal by the Army. Asad and his men take Torjan down but not before losing their men who had families wa...