Maalik

Maalik is about ownership. The Tag line of the film is "Main Pakistan ka Shehri Pakistan ka Maalik hun" Maalik invites the viewer to take responsibility for their own life and the lives of their loved ones. The story of Maalik has four principal tracks. A family that escapes from the ravages of the Soviet war in Afghanistan and its fall out on the bordering villages of Pakistan to settle in Karachi. A SSG officer who undergoes a personal tragedy and starts a private security company (Black Ops Pvt. Ltd) in Karachi. His SSG colleagues keep joining the company on their retirements. An idealist school master who suffers greatly under a cruel Feudal lord and settles in Karachi and finally the Feudal Lord who becomes the Chief Minister and unleashes a reign of terror on all that cross his path. Maalik is a story of love, loyalty, honor, family value, idealism, courage and dignity against all odds, and across all sections of society from the poor and the struggling to the highest levels of wealth and power. By: Ashir Azeem