Plot summary
Major Asad serves in Pakistan's Special Services Group until a personal tragedy pushes him to leave and start Black Ops Pvt. Ltd, a private security company in Karachi that takes up cases the police will not. His former colleagues join him as they retire. Master Mohsin, an idealist school teacher, endures cruelty under a feudal lord, then settles in Karachi; the same feudal lord becomes chief minister of Sindh and turns his power against those who cross him. An Afghan family that escapes the Soviet war also settles in Karachi. When a wealthy businessman's son is kidnapped and the police offer little, the family approaches Asad, who agrees to help on the condition that they pass the same help on to someone else in need.
Cast
- Tatmain ul Qalbas Sherry
- Abdul Aziz Jamalas Chief Minister's Assistant
- Nosher Samuelas Rasheed
- Shakeel Hussain Khanas Musa
- Kashif Hashmias Jamshed
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Maalik (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Maalik was banned in Pakistan for political reasons even after all three Censor Boards had cleared it with a Universal rating, making it the only Pakistani film banned by the federal government after censor clearance.
- Writer-director Ashir Azeem condemned the ban on his own film in a series of tweets; the ban was lifted by the LHC on 7 September 2016 and Maalik was re-released on limited screens in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
- Pakistan's Special Forces backed the production with advanced weapons, ammunition and training for the cast and crew, and the film used MI 17 and MI 35 gunships, T 55 tanks and C130 Hercules aircraft as props.
