December 21, 2025 03:59 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
PM Modi slams ‘cut and commission’ TMC in virtual Taherpur address | US launches Operation Hawkeye Strike in Syria targeting ISIS after Americans killed | Horror on tracks: Rajdhani Express ploughs into elephant herd, eight killed in Assam | Horror in Bangladesh: Hindu man lynched and set on fire amid violent protests | Bangladesh in flames: Student leader Sharif Osman Hadi's death triggers massive protests, media offices torched | Chaos in Dhaka! Protesters assault New Age Editor, burn down newspaper offices amid deadly unrest | After campus shootings, Trump suspends green card lottery programme | ‘Worst is over,’ says IndiGo CEO after flight chaos; staff told to ignore speculation | Chaos at Hyderabad's Lulu Mall! Nidhhi Agerwal swarmed by fans, police register case | TCS bets big on AI, shares spike as company reveals ambitious plan

Amjad Khan’s biopic Gul Makai on Malala Yousafzai to release on 31 Jan 2020

| @indiablooms | Dec 27, 2019, at 12:53 pm

Mumbai/IBNS: Gul Makai, a biopic based on the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, is all set to hit the silver screen on Jan 31 next year. The film has been directed by  Amjad Khan.

Popular TV actress Reem Shaikh will be seen as Malala Yousafzai along with National Awardee Divya Dutta, Atul Kulkarni and Mukesh Rishi and Pankaj Tripathi in pivotal roles.

The movie accounts the courageous journey of Ziauddin Yousafzai family, when Swat Valley in Pakistan was seized by Taliban gunmen in 2009 and Sharia law was imposed upon its people.

Ziauddin Yousafzai’s daughter, Malala Yousafzai, spoke against the world's most dangerous terrorist organisation through her blogs on the BBC Urdu website under the pseudonym Gul Makai, against the oppression faced by them in Swat Valley, northwestern Pakistan.

Malala spoke for the right of girls, especially the right to receive a complete education, her courage and bravery gained worldwide recognition and support. Even though her father was more active voice against the Taliban, Malala was chosen to mark the opposition against girl’s education.

On 9 Oct 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after taking an exam, Yousafzai and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman. She was hit in the head with a bullet and remained  in critical condition and later shifted to a UK hospital. She survived.

Taliban failed and today the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner and the most famous teenager in the world as classified by the UN, has become the voice and force for education for all women across the world .

Presented by Dr Jayantilal Gada (pen) & Tekno Films, the film has been produced by Sanjay Singla.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.