Shamoon Abbasi’s bumpy political thriller, starring Faraz Farooqi as a duty-bound officer, arrives just months after the Pahalgam attacks and right in the middle of a national conversation about narrative control. Begunaah is unabashedly a propaganda film for Pakistan. The question is whether it’s a good one. Released in October 2025, just six months after … Continue reading Begunaah and the Politics for Narrative