Infectious Energy

For the past few days the social media is buzzing with the wedding news of Hamza Ali Abbasi of fame Pyare Afzal. Hamza started his career with TV and after doing a few projects moved to the big screen, he is not only famous for the work he did on screen but his claim to fame is from his extremely vocal socio-political and religious views especially on social media, he is seldom politically correct and gets a lot of bashing for his opinions. This week he was again in the news for posts about his wedding announcement to Naimal Khawaar. His long post about “Platonic Relationships” has been the topic  of the grape wine. His definition of Halal relationship was a bit bizarre and was so not needed in the wedding announcement.   Many bashed him for being self righteous or holier than thou. Some called it a publicity stunt, which often the people in the media are accused off.     On August 25 th  2019, the social media was again highlighting his beau...

In January this year, Sara a transgender in Peshawar, was abducted, abused and murdered by unidentified men. Unfortunately, most transgender in Pakistan meet such tragic ends. Sadly the situation is even worse for those who are alive, they are denied all basic rights as a human being. Hospitals refuse to give them medical care.  In the above case the tortured body of the deceased was refused admission in the morgue. The society has always treated transgender as lesser Humans . The parents and families of transgender abandon them at birth. Leaving them at the mercy of beggars and sex workers. Their  fight  for survival starts at birth and  many struggles that follow throughout their non existent life. With the absence of any social status in the law they have no hope for a better future. Due to the lack of  recognition as human beings and later having no options to earn their livelihood, many turn to prostitution. The transgend...

T ickets booked, popcorn and tea bought as I settled in my seat to watch the much talked about Pakistani commercial movie released on Eid ul Adha called “ Paray hut love” directed by none other than Asim Raza of “Ho maan jahan” and ‘Behudd’ fame with an elaborated star cast. The movie started with “Natasha ki shaadi” , a larger than life set of a Haveli where mehndi was being applied on Fareiha Altaf and the maids were carrying huge thaals of mithai. The ostentatious wedding of the rich and the famous with colorful designer wear and a well choreographed mehndi night where a famous actress must make a guest appearance; a prolific formula for any commercial movie, sets the picture perfect introduction of the film.   The very next scene introduces the male protagonist of the film commonly called the hero Shahryar Munnawar surprisingly called Shahryaar in the movie too. A somewhat fresh comic scene by Hina Dilpazeer who plays the filmi over the top mom of the male protag...