Two old, rich friends talk on Skype. One wants the other's beautiful daughter, Maya Ali, to marry his utterly unprepossessing son. The other refuses, there's a massive quarrel and Ali Zafar (Treefa) is told off to kidnap Miss Ali from her home in Warsaw and fetch her to Lahore for the wedding. On arriving in Poland, however, he discovers he has arrived on the day of her arranged wedding. However, she is anxious to get out of it and thinks he has been sent by her friends to fetch her to a birthday party for Tom Coulson, a bar singer she has a crush on.
We know how this is going to turn out from the moment the situation is set up. The question is always how much fun director Ahsan Rahim, the writers (who include Messrs. Rahim and and Zafar) and the rest of the cast and crew can provide along the way.
The first thing to note is that I was blown away by cinematographer Zain Haleem's photography of Poland, his shots of Warsaw and the countryside. American and European cameramen have a large assortment of standard shots, but Haleem seems to be working from a different bag of tricks and the inspiration of novelty.
The rest of the movie is good, but far more standard. There's a lot of fight choreography; indeed, one of the musical numbers, which Indian and Pakistani movies seem to include automatically, refers to Jackie Chan. Yet most of the comedy turns are provided by Mr. Zafar's sidekick, who falls quickly into the annoying-and futile category. The leads are good-looking and capable performers, and the plot twists are well performed. Yet I was growing impatient towards the end. A romantic comedy that lasts two and a half hours is imply too long.
Yet, despite the feeling that it should have had one or two sub-plots fewer, it rolled right along for the first couple of hours and remained watchable to the end. I d
We know how this is going to turn out from the moment the situation is set up. The question is always how much fun director Ahsan Rahim, the writers (who include Messrs. Rahim and and Zafar) and the rest of the cast and crew can provide along the way.
The first thing to note is that I was blown away by cinematographer Zain Haleem's photography of Poland, his shots of Warsaw and the countryside. American and European cameramen have a large assortment of standard shots, but Haleem seems to be working from a different bag of tricks and the inspiration of novelty.
The rest of the movie is good, but far more standard. There's a lot of fight choreography; indeed, one of the musical numbers, which Indian and Pakistani movies seem to include automatically, refers to Jackie Chan. Yet most of the comedy turns are provided by Mr. Zafar's sidekick, who falls quickly into the annoying-and futile category. The leads are good-looking and capable performers, and the plot twists are well performed. Yet I was growing impatient towards the end. A romantic comedy that lasts two and a half hours is imply too long.
Yet, despite the feeling that it should have had one or two sub-plots fewer, it rolled right along for the first couple of hours and remained watchable to the end. I d