Shooting for a film on the Khilafat Movement titled Gawah Rehna written and directed by Tahir Mahmood will begin in October and, if things go as planned, it will be released in March 2020. This was announced at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday evening.
Speaking to the media, Mr Mahmood said as an official of the Foreign Service he has served in Turkey where the idea for the project came about. Shedding light on the story of the film he mentioned that the Turkish people are extremely fond of Pakistanis, and there’s a reason for it: some 100 years ago (in the 1920s) our ancestors began a movement in the region, the Tehreek-i-Khilafat, as a result of which a great deal of help was given to Turkey where Ghazi Mustafa Kamal was fighting imperial forces. The Turkish nation hasn’t forgotten the gesture; the film’s subject is based on that. The struggle against the British rule in the process created a conflict, around which the story revolves.