Ae Musht Khak
Pak drama 'Ae Musht Khak' aired on Pakistan's private entertainment channel Jio has been in discussion on social media for the past few days and questions are being raised about the characters and attitudes portrayed in it.
Story of serial
In one episode of this drama, the main character Mustajb (Feroz Khan) strangles his ex-girlfriend Shiza (Nimra Khan) and drags her to the sofa. These scenes have sparked a debate as to whether the Pakistani drama is portraying violence against women as normal in society.
Actors Feroze Khan and Sana Javed are playing the lead roles in this drama. In which Feroze Khan is shown as a spoiled stubborn, egoistic and irreligious person who falls in love with Dua (Sana Javed) and marries her.
In the drama, Dua (Sana Javed) is playing the role of a religious and pious girl who is very attached to religion and its teachings.
On social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, while viewers have praised the drama, some have also criticized the violence shown in it.
Commenting on the drama, barrister Umbreen Qureshi wrote that violence against women portrayed in the media is painful for women who have gone through it or are going through it, so it needs to be stopped and discouraged. Is.
A user named Mahi Mahira wrote, "This drama is actually showing the reality of men in our society where mothers are not able to raise their sons properly and later they want their sons to marry a woman who is like them." To make more religious and moral training.
On the other hand, men have girlfriends before marriage and when it comes to marriage, they choose someone else. It needs attention. Mothers need to pay more attention to their sons than to their daughters because such men become truly poisonous and beastly when they grow up.'
Commenting on the scene of violence in the drama, a user named Haba wrote that 'O Misht Khaq is a very painful drama, it should not be aired in Pakistan, people here are already brainwashed to make them more corrupt. No need for any more nonsense.'
On the one hand, women are openly expressing their views regarding the violent scenes in the drama, on the other hand, men are also seen commenting on it.
A user named Haroon Ashraf said, "This drama should have been shown on the screen with a warning message."
He further said that 'we easily see even more violent content from Western countries, all of them are a performing art, its purpose is not to support the process being shown.'
While a user named Mohammad Dawood Khan asks, 'Who writes, produces and directs the content we are making and showing on our national or central TV channels?'
The drama serial 'A Musht-e-Khak' is written by dramatist Maha Malik and directed by Ahsan Talish and produced by Abdullah Qadwani's production house.
"People are not understanding the subject, this is the story of an infidel"
Director Ahsan Talish says that he is getting great response for this play but some people are not understanding the subject.
This is the story of an infidel. Parents give everything to their children, but they keep their religious beliefs. You don't give them religious education, then he gets influenced by the way he gets, you don't influence him with religion, he is born in an Islamic family, that's all.
On the viral clip of the play and the questions raised on the story on social media, he said that he is not making violence against women a common thing, nor has he done anything like that deliberately.
I have also read the script many times, it is not like we are normalizing violence against women, doesn't an English man beat his wife in Europe, that woman also stays silent due to many social pressures and Men kill too.'
When he was asked if a warning message is posted in violent scenes abroad, his answer was that we do not show warnings, we are quite sensible people.
When Ahsan Talish was asked whether the main character of this play will be on the right path like many other stories, he smiled and said that I cannot say.
Even today in the society of Pakistan, this phrase is heard that if a boy gets married, he will be reformed.
"Those with old taboos are stuck there," he says. A girl who grows up with stereotypes does so by becoming a mother.
When he was asked that he is supporting the idea in the play that a pious wife will correct the husband, he replied that he shows what happens in the society.
He said that we are trying to show a story in such a way that there is such a woman. And there is such a man, both are just like that.
"Sabir Shakir woman should bear the violence, we are legitimizing this violence"
Tasnim Ahmar, the director of Haqq, a media watchdog organization in Pakistan, says that the dramas are showing that the patient woman will bear the violence, and the man will be cured. She accepts it. In a way, we are legitimizing this violence and exaggerating the concept of masculinity that is based on strength.
She says that 'in this play, the ideal of the hero (Feroz Khan) has been shown, now men who are like this will create an impression that we have to be like this and men who do not fit this image. Come, they will use their power at least in a way that suits them.'
She says that 'If a man cannot dominate a woman, then he tries his power on little girls and animals, so this process of normalization does not stop at women but its effects go far.'
Tasnim Ahmar says, "When you show scenes like this that awaken the beast inside a man, you lead to normalizing violence."
Commenting on the drama, she says, 'In the beginning you show the violence, then in the 26th or 27th episode you'll show that he's paralyzed or something bad happens to him. During this period, many men in real life have expressed their so-called power.'
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