Malala Yousafzai biopic : Gul Makai to release on January 31
The film on Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani teenager who defied Taliban, Gul Makai gets a release date – the movie will hit theatres on January 31. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted the announcement Friday morning. Gul Makai is the pseudonym Malala used when she wrote blogs for BBC Urdu during the Talibani rule.
“# GulMakai – the biopic on #MalalaYousafzai – to release on 31 Jan 2020… Stars #ReemShaikh as #Malala, #DivyaDutta, #AtulKulkarni, #Mukesh Rishi and #PankajTripathi… Directed by H E Amjad Khan… Produced by Sanjay Singla… Dr Jayantilal Gada and Tekno Films presentation,” he tweeted.
Directed by India’s Amjad Khan, Gul Makai has been majorly shot in Kashmir and traces the then socio-political atmosphere of Pakistan. Actors Reem Shaikh, Divya Dutta, Mukesh Rishi, Abhimanyu Singh and Ajaz Khan will be seen in the film. Pankaj Tripathi has also joined the cast, as per Taran’s announcement.
The first motion poster of Gul Makai was unveiled earlier and it gave a glimpse of the fire that she fought against. As a girl holds a book in her hands which is on fire, Kabir Bedi’s deep voice echoes, “This is about those times when the Taliban was destroying Pakistan and Afghanistan in the name of Jihad and religion. When from a very small village in Pakistan, a voice arose.”
Malala, the girl with beauty and boldness
“From a young age, Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai was known for speaking out in favour of the educating girls and highlighting the atrocities of the Taliban.”
Malala, is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become “the most prominent citizen” of the country.
Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father’s thoughts and humanitarian work.
