In a grand sweep through the rugged landscape of the northwest, the story of Zar Gul's life unfolds.

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Faryal Gohar slinks effortlessly between her schizoid roles as the coy object of Zar Gul's affection, rebellious daughter and respectable schoolteacher.

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Journalists recognized the plight of Zahid (Talat Hussain), a reporter fighting to tell Zar Gul's story in the face of press controls.

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Imraan Peerzada's Zar Gul is every inch the dandy outlaw-about-town: a smoldering gaze, bouncing quiff, tweaked mustache and the smile of a shark on the prowl.

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Appalled by the suffering he witnesses in the slave camp, Zar Gul (Imraan Peerzada, the director's brother) resolves to fight injustice wherever he encounters it.

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The young Zar Gul (a wonderfully understated performance from the director's son, Babar) learns the values of poetry and marksmanship on majestic, jagged hillsides under a cobalt sky.

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