Agha Jaan Movies  A sensitive adolescent being raised under
strict Islamic law longs to get an education as opposed to
fending off the infidels in this thoughtful meditation on
post-9/11 Muslim society from Australian director Benjamin
Gilmour. Sher Alam Afridi (Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad) is a widowed
Pashtun and gunsmith who lives on the Northwest Frontier of
Pakistan with his eleven year old son Niaz (Niaz Khan Shinwari).
While Sher encourages his illiterate son to continue the family
tradition of making guns, young Niaz just wants to go to school.
Nevertheless, the dutiful youngster frequently runs errands that
include purchasing hashish for his elderly grandfather, and
relishes his visits with friendly local poet Agha Jaan (Agha
Jaan) - who kindly reads Niaz the letters sent to the boy from
his cousin Anousha (Anousha Vasif Shinwari) in Peshawar.
Deciding that the only way out is to get an education, Niaz
optimistically procures some school enrollment papers and
approaches his open-minded uncle Baktiyar (Ba