This film had great potential to succeed!

the film struck me as highly thoughtful and capable of better if along the way a bolt had not struck khalid reminding him of entertainment value and corrupting an otherwise well-made film. its certainly had much more depth than the average bollywood film, and unlike most of them, is depressing throughout. the characterisation of amaan and fiza is brilliant and something of a landmark in indian cinema. what was poor were the superflous addition of songs like fiza,aankh milaaongi, which served as respites, that however were incongruent with the movement of the story and development of characters. some of the symbolism is refreshing and the acting is brilliant.

it was sad that the film was ripped apart for religious reasons, and was a commercial failure(not a surprise) but another film dealing with terrorism which had much greater technical brilliance yet lacked punch was mission kashmir. to khalid i can only say, try again, and harder, without being too concerned with trying to discordantly input entertainment segments for the sake of it. learn from films like lagaan, and dil chahta hai, how to fuse the entertaiment and art side of film perfectly. of course a classic hollywood example would be what else, The Godfather.