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International Guerillas

International Guerrillas is a 1990 spy action film from Pakistan, originally released in the context of the Satanic Verses controversy. The movie portrays Salman Rushdie as its main villain. The film was made primarily in the Urdu and Punjabi languages with some bits of English. it also features several musical numbers including songs and dances.

Plot
The film's protagonists are three Pakistani brothers, the eldest one being a police officer and the younger two, small-time hoodlums. The three brothers ultimately reconcile in the light of the controversy over The Satanic Verses: in a dramatized version of the Islamabad police firing on a mob on 12 February 1990 when five demonstrators were killed and 83 injured, their younger sister is killed by the police while demonstrating against Rushdie. The three brothers decide to avenge her and Islam's honor by hunting down and killing Rushdie. They receive the help of a female police officer in the course of their mission. Salman Rushdie, played by Afzaal Ahmad, is portrayed in the film as a sadistic criminal mastermind, working for an international conspiracy devoted to destroying Islam (as the Muslim faith is an obstacle to his wishes of building casinos, nightclubs and brothels around the world). He is depicted as hiding in the Philippines, guarded by a private army led by an Israeli general. Saeed Khan Rangeela stars as "Chief Batu Batu", Rushdie's main Jewish henchman. Rushdie lives a life of hedonism and other excesses and routinely amuses himself by torturing and killing the mujaheddins who regularly try to hunt him down. He also enjoys torturing Muslims by making them listen to readings of The Satanic Verses. ==Cast==
Cast
Ghulam MohiuddinMustafa QureshiSaeed Khan RangeelaBabra Sharif • Hamayun Qureshi • Naghma • Afzaal Ahmad as Salman Rushdie. ==Temporary ban in the UK and response by Rushdie==
Temporary ban in the UK and response by Rushdie
The film was denied a certificate by the British Board of Film Classification, effectively denying it a cinema release in the UK. Rushdie later said, "If that film had been banned, it would have become the hottest video in town: everyone would have seen it". While the film was a great hit in Pakistan, it enjoyed only a limited release in the West, where it went virtually unnoticed. ==References==
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