“Shoot on Sight” asks Is it a crime to be Muslim?

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 24, 2008 under Bollywood, Foreign Film, New Release, Theatrical Release | Comments are off for this article

The film “SHOOT ON SIGHT” which released on 17th October, 2008 in India, has reportedly won the critics’ & the Indian audiences’ heart in all the ways. The film is directed by Jag Mundhra of Provoked and Bawandar fame and casts Indian veteran actors Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri and Gulshan Grover along with Hollywood actors like, Greta Scacchi, Brian Cox, Laila Rouass and Sadie Frost. The film released both in English & Hindi Versions.

Shoot on Sight is a political thriller which deals with the difficult dilemna of mostly peace loving Muslims, in these turbulent times, when a cosmopolitan society, especially London, is gripped by fear of Islamic extremism, racial profiling and Islamophobia during the aftermath of underground bombings in July 2005.

The film is a fictional drama dealing with the London Police order of “Shoot On Sight” after the underground bombings in 2005. The film unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard.

Commander Ali, born in Lahore and married to an English woman, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a suspected Muslim terrorist in the London Underground.  Distrusted by both his superiors in the police, and his fellow Muslims, he finds his inquiry hampered from all sides.  When evidence surfaces pointing to the slain man’s innocence, as well as the existence of a terrorist cell operating in his own backyard, Tariq must face the realization that sometimes the right decision is the hardest one to make. (via film website)