Khuda kay liye is indeed a well portrayed subject with a badly portrayed ending. A recent viewing of the movie has saved me form a lot of confusions surrounding it. The movie had actors saying much “Buzz” about it, which I would disagree with. However, the movie had more to impress than to disappoint. So here’s a little review:

Before watching the movie, I stumbled upon the Wiki entry for “Khuda kay liye” and the fatwa in its very purpose is correct. Although, the cultural mixture in Pakistan and mutilated Islam appears quite evident from the Wiki entry. Music is not allowed in Islam, whatsoever. The reasons given by Shoaib Mansoor in the end of movie will not satisfy a Muslim, one who knows that David (Hazrat Daud) (PBUH) did not sing, and recited the Holy scripture with such clarity and Holiness that nature sang along with him. The hadith quoted may also turn people false, since I myself am not educated enough in Hadith. A recent interview with Junaid Jamshed would give you a good idea about the possibilities of Music in Islam and his life. In the ending, where Shoaib Mansoor argues that Music is not wrong and why would the creator want something as ‘Soul fulfulling’ as Music to be not used; There are two things mainly confused here, solo singing (plain human voice without musical instruments and musical bends) and singing with musical instruments. All of the examples given in history would suggest that human voice is the only means allowed in Islam to either recite or read a scripture. In one example, a simple ‘Duff’ (a Hollow drum) is allowed and may be used to accompany the voice. Singing with musical instruments is bad because music can control the human mind to a certain extent and may render him in pitiful stances, which may at times be shameful. Any Muslim who wants to understand the possibilities of Music in Islam should either consult a religeous scholar like Dr. Zakir Naik or should very well be versed in Hadith and consult books like Sahi Hadith.

Apart from the Islam & musical point of View, Khuda kay liye is a spectacular movie. It has every element that you may see in a Hollywood movie. Gorgeous scenes from Pakistan, America and Afghanistan will leave you wondering how good the footage actually was. For tech geeks that was a High Definition Cinema release and not made with broken/outdated Pakistani Film instruments. Shoaib Mansoor has gone quite a mile to make sure that the movie has rich details and everything shows which part of the world is portrayed in a certain scene. For Example, if the scene is Afghanistan, you will see wide areas with rich colors and mountains and believable sets. And it totally changes when you are in America or Lahore.

 The Dialog and script is great but poorly delivered by some actors. Some scenes look worse than a stage show, simply because the actors have done a bad job at deleivering the script. Sarcasm is one factor that you will see as a common object in the movie. This stays true for all parts of the movie, from social injustice to conflicting ideas and one could not desist the fact that everything portrayed in the movie is nothing but the truth.

M.H.A.Q.S.

1. Firstly, you need to run the Visual Studio 6 setup using ‘Run as administrator’.
2. You can do that by right clicking on the setup file and select ‘Run as administrator’.
3. Ignore any errors Vista gives you while running the setup and ask it never to show you these errors again.
4. During the setup, do not select any options except VC and VB 6 as others have serious compatibility issues.
5. After the setup, restart your PC.
6. There will be another error when Windows starts, ignore it and continue.
7. Go your Service Pack 5 directory and look for a file named ‘sp598ent.stf’.
8. Open the file with a notepad and look for the following value.

13 Group 28 <OTHER NUMBERS>

9. Replace this value with the following value

13 Group 28 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43

10. Make sure you only correct the numbers by looking at these values and don’t change the spaces.
11. Run the setup, ‘setupsp5.exe’ using ‘Run as Administrator’.
12. Once the setup is complete, you will need to restart the computer and you’re done.

Some people say that you need to have UAC (User Access/Account Control) turned on for this to work, but you don’t. Also, this solution was given by guideX on MSDN forums and the credit goes to him. Thanks.

I ran into this error quite a lot of times and before Microsoft released the following two patches for Vista, this was the only solution to the error. I found the solution below from a post on a thread, I don’t really remember. So, all teh credit is to that guy.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979

While using Windows Vista, I came across the following error:

nvlddmkm.sys has stopped responding and has recovered or something similar

Its a software issue and not a driver issue.

Method

Note: I am just explaining it as simply as I can. U can modify the solution so it is more precise, if you wish. I just wanted to fix the problem with the minimum of trouble.

1. Turn UAC off. If you like it, then you can keep it running.
2. Uninstall any Nvidia drivers, and delete the remaining files from Program Files (the ones windows lets you delete)
3. Restart the PC into safe mode – (F8 at boot)
4. Find any remaining NVidia driver files (normally start with nv) and delete them.
5. Reboot into normal mode Vista
6. Using Explorer or open My Computer and browse C:\Windows\
7. Right-Click on System32 folder and click ‘search’
8. Enter NV*.sys
9. This will show you all the Nvidia system files in the folder. The ones we are interested in is the ‘nvlddmkm.sys’ and how many copies we have.
10. If you tried multiple install/uninstall you will a few copies of it. I had 19 copies. If you look at the location, they were all in the ‘FileRepository’ folder under different subfolder. Something like nv_as***, nv_io***, etc
11. Note down the name of the sub folders where the file is located, nv_as***
12. So we now know that we have X copies of the nvlddmkm.sys file and what folders they are located in under the FileRep folder. There might be one under the main system32 folder as well. Note it down.
13. Vista has a totally awesome function. ACLs for network geeks…Access-Control Lists or Access-Lists or whatever you want to call them
14. Browse to Accessories from the Start menu (win icon>all programs)
15. Right-Click on command and click ‘Run as Admin’
16. OK so in our Admin CMD window we type the following commands in sequence
17. takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\*.*
18. The command above will give you ownership of all the files under the FileRep folder
19. cacls C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\*.* /G Username:F
20. Replace username with your windows account name or login name
21. Like magic we are done. Oh and if ur wondering…u cant do the above via GUI. Windows will give you permission but you would still not be able to delete anything ?
22. Earlier we did the search for the nvlddmkm.sys under the system32 folder. Do that again. In the search results, select all the instances of the nvlddmkm.sys file and delete them. OK, next is a totally optional step but I did it to make 100% sure it was all gone.
23. We noted down all the nv_as**, etc folder which had the nvlddmkm.sys file in it, delete the folders and empty ur RecBin
24. Fire up your ForceWare drivers for the install. Disabled ur Aero Vista before hand, it does make a difference.
25. Restart, login, set ur resolution and enjoy the whole error-free nvlddmkm.sys effect.
26. Few notes. Make sure u can see the file extensions and system files are not hidden (blasphemous behaviour for techGeeks).

The whole procedure might sound like a really long way to get the problem sorted out buts its not. When u actually do it u will see that in totally in takes around 10 mins tops to get the whole thing sorted out.

Piece of advice, I don’t recommend u apply the ACL commands to your whole storage systems. I usually enter it for the FileRep folder and ALL my HDDs that used for only data storage, like avi’s, etc.