Mother (2015)

Powerful

Great Film overall

Good movie but grossly overrated

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

No matter how much the local Pakistani industry hates the guts of Jami for being so blunt about the Commercial Masala flicks, They all are bound to acknowledge the Master piece made by Jami Mehmood . I think it would be absolutely unfair for reviewing the film alone, I would rather take the whole journey of Moor from the day its day rolled till its screening at cinemas and then pass a judgment considering all the odds the Team Moor had to face to make this Film Possible . In an Industry where all big Directors are going for safe play by adding Item Numbers and fancy Cinematography , Jami manages to to give them a knock out by hitting the arena with such a powerful screenplay and to remind you he is more known for his Cinematographic skill but Moor turned out to be a absolute surprise as the Film Narrative possessed the power of hooking every single viewer to their seat .Moor created a nostalgic aura through out the 120mins and then you move on with different daily activities but when ever you are in solitude you get nostalgic with the experience of Moor , its music , its dialogues, its pleasing landscapes . and when I think of it , i feel Jami has done his job .

After 021 this is Jami's second venture & what a visual treat Moor is, brilliant cinematography a story which was weaved intricately yet abstract, acting par excellence, most people might see this movie on a surface level & would even find it too dry for their taste but the juxtapositions scattered throughout the experience were hard to miss, I wish someone could mobilize the who's who locally & make sure that this could be made our entry in the foreign cinema section at the Oscars, the style of film making contains influences of Irani & European directors yet Jami ensures that his own style of film making shines through... Kudos once again to Jami for ensuring that Pakistani cinema maintains its own flavor/class instead of what is being churned out in the name of revival of Pakistani cinema aka Bollywood inspired rip offs

Finest of cinematography, acting(among all recent Pakistani), great direction, strong message.Movie made me fall in love with Baluchistan. Brilliant work done there by all the team. Overall, loved it. But that was then and this is now. It took Pakistani cinema around two years to reset the bar, higher than where it had been set earlier by Waar. All thanks to Moor, and of course the people behind it. The acting department spearheaded by Hameed Sheikh was simply a treat within a treat. God, the performances. I would actually like to thank Shoaib Mansoor here. Thank You sir, thank you for bringing the greatness that is Hameed Sheikh in the film world. And I will be honest here, Hameed Sheikh did make me shed few tears. The film was about Waheed (Hameed's character) and Hameed Sheikh gave it the best he has given to a film up till now

After watching Jami's O21, I had high hopes for MOOR because he doesn't follow the usual ingredients of a Lollywood or Bollywood movie. Surely, MOOR wasn't your typical Indian musical or a romcom. The basic story line is powerful, it deals with corruption in railways, neglect of government for Balochistan, moral degradation of society (particularly Karachi), lust of man for money and bonding within the family. What Jami failed to do this time was to create a steady momentum of the story. Movie seems to be a product of bad editing where haphazard scenes collide. The first 50 minutes seemed like a psychological thriller where a man is marred with the guilt of not saving his mother in his childhood. Also those 50 minutes could have been shown in a total of 15 minutes span. Scenes are shot in detail from an artistic point of view not from storytelling perspective. The emotional scenes are so long that they affect the whole feeling in it. The director failed to project the characters emotions. Dialogues seemed to be a rip off of an old moral story that mothers in Pakistan tell their kids and they were prolonged for no particular reason. You have got your railway corruption, backwardness of Balochistan and moral dilemmas being shown at the same time, nothing is wrong with it… but poor editing made it confusing for the audience to concentrate to all of it. The light background music wasn't effective during the dialogues as it should have been. Shots were too much zoomed in. There is hardly a scene where you see a character's full body or the environment he/she is in (apart from the outside shots in Balochistan). It was as if cameraman didn't knew how to zoom out. Maybe the director wanted to show the facial expressions in detail while a character's life is in turmoil but it was all too much. From an artistic directors' point of view, the shots are beautiful. But overall Jami failed to compile the movie to convey a heavy message. You have to assimilate more than 90 minutes to receive this message: Money is not real happiness, family ties are important, Pakistan (motherland) is to be taken care of by every individual and to always act morally.