Just saw the movie. I didn't get why Janie doesn't go to Pakistan when Mansoor is being deported. She seems to be very much in love with him through those scenes. Is there a reason/significance - Islamic/cultural/anything why she is not with him at the end?
shareYup, thats something which I was wondering about too.
shareMansoor wrote her a letter that she is free to go since he knew he would be in there forever and not be freed. I don't know why that letter didn't come to her sooner. There were other questions not answered. How long did Mansoor was tortured in USA? How was he so easily freed? How long was Janie kept away from Mansoor?
I feel the reason director didn't go into all these details is because he felt they were not essential to the main story line. I never felt a need for those questions to be answered. The movie was flowing smoothly.
Well arjunkathuria you see the director is showing the difference between the western and eastern societies. Although she loved him but after what happened to him he was no longer the mansoor she had loved. Lets say he would become a burdern. But if you look in the subcontinent, you'll see the grandmothers and mothers are loyal and devoted. Thats the differnce since he would be a burdern she left him not realizing that he would be needing the support of his wife the most. Thats what the director is showing, some values that are missing.
shareI don't think it's true that westerners lack those values. I know several examples of husbands and wives who remained loyal to their partners through detrimental illnesses. I like to hope that it was left to our imaginations and that she eventually followed him to Pakistan.
I read an interview by the actress who played Janie, in which she said that Mansoor and Janie had simply changed too much during their ordeal to live together as a happy couple (http://www.koolmuzone.pk/forum/moviesseries/an-interview-with-austin-marie-sayre-from-the-movie-'khuda-kay-liye'/). I don't think it was anything to do with a lack of devotion on Janie's part. They had only been married for a few hours before their life was interrupted. Why would she feel obligated to spend the rest of her life caring for a man to whom she was only married for hours? It was better to let him go back to his family in Pakistan, where he would get the support he needed, and try to salvage her own life in the US.
There's also a strong parallel between Janie's choice to remain in the US and Mary's choice to remain in Pakistan, despite the fact that they both loved the men to whom they had been engaged or married. Mary, like Janie, had changed too much during her captivity in Pakistan to be the woman who loved Dave and whom Dave loved. It might have been painful in the short run to Dave that she didn't return to England, but in the long-run, it probably saved them both disappointment and heartbreak.