Christopher Lee's favorite role

Any one who watches movies can tell you who Christopher Lee is? This man has a lot of good movies to his name like lord of the rings, sleepy hollow, star wars; just to name a few. He is also the actor which most accurately portrayed Dracula, according to many.

Guess what he said when asked about his own favorite performance. Instantly he replies that its easy to decide for me, its in a movie no one has ever seen. He then recalls the year 1997 when he had to got to this small country in Asia called Pakistan for ten weeks and worked with a couple of Indian and Pakistani actors. Yes my dear fellow Pakistanis, he is talking about his portrayal of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the movie Jinnah. Its not just the acting he himself he did in the movie that he likes, its the character of Mr. Jinnah that he admires. He says that Jinnah was a brilliant man, incorruptible, great integrity, friend of Gandhi and he fathered Pakistan. He says: "I know its the best thing I have ever done by a long long way". He claims that its a truthful and historically correct movie. Then he describes the reason this movie was not very well received in many parts of the world.

He says that distributors will not show the movie because its a part of the Muslim world. But they got to understand that Jinnah was not a fundamentalist or sent to kill someone nor was he Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden. What amazes me is his thoughts on the matter. He says that what is happening now in the world, these terrorists and terrorism, this is not true Islam or true Muslims and its a tragedy that the world will not learn about a great Muslim leader. These are just a bunch of extremists.

Well, hats off to Sir Christopher Lee for those kind words. I hope rest of the world can have the same understanding and clarity of mind as him.