{"id":49291,"date":"2022-10-13T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/oct\/12\/the-legend-of-maula-jatt-review"},"modified":"2022-10-13T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:00:41","slug":"the-legend-of-maula-jatt-review-pakistani-classic-remake-is-game-of-thrones-meets-gladiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49291","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Maula Jatt review \u2013 Pakistani classic remake is Game of Thrones meets Gladiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertaining new version of Pakistan cult movie follows a young noble boy spirited away to a poor village when a rival clan slaughters his parents<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Game of Thrones crossed with Gladiator and you\u2019ll have something like this entertainingly old fashioned action movie with epic levels of throat slashing, spectacular scenery and a fair bit of camp. Rumoured to be Pakistan\u2019s highest-budget film, this remake of a cult classic from 1979 is the story of a young noble boy, Maula Jatt, who is spirited away to a poor village when a rival clan slaughters his parents.<\/p>\n<p>After a flashback to that massacre we meet Maula (Fawad Khan) as a young man. The size of a well-fed bear, he earns a living fighting in gladiatorial games, pummelling poor souls from neighbouring villages. But the discovery of his past sets him off on a path of revenge against the Natt family responsible for killing his parents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/oct\/12\/the-legend-of-maula-jatt-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertaining new version of Pakistan cult movie follows a young noble boy spirited away to a poor village when a rival clan slaughters his parentsImagine Game of Thrones crossed with Gladiator and you\u2019ll have something like this entertainingly old fash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1780,71,508,69,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-and-adventure-films","category-culture","category-drama-films","category-film","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49292,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291\/revisions\/49292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}