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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's Academy Award for her documentry, A Girl in the River, has been much celebrated at home. Deservedly so.
Like her first Oscar-winning documentary, saving face, which spotlit the horror of acid attack, this too is a visceral, urgent piece of film-making. But alongside the jubilation is another view, persistent and petty, that is inevitably voiced at such occasions. Widely shared by politicians, journalists, religious leader, in short 'patriots' of all stripes, this opinion has that that has made a serious disservice to her country by highlighting the misery of ordinary Pakistanis to further her own career. Hence, the twitter trend: DisownSharmeen.
Why, I asked, 'had Adiga chosen to write about the so many nice, nice things that happen in India? The same critique was also trotted out when Danny Boyle's film, Slumdog Millionaire, won big at the Oscar. or when Malala won the Nobel prize. Or Sharmeen her first Oscar. Really, why can not these people just Photoshop our reality? why can not we hide our flaws and emphasize our virtues so we can respect and admiration of Western societies? many 'concerned citizens' in Pakistan ask why Sharmeen did not make a film about that tireless humanitarian, Edhi, or better still, about the victims of drone strikes, cataloging American injustice, rather than our own.
Truth wins: The buzz around Sharmeen's film has prompted Nawaz Sharif to say that the practice of honor killings in Pakistan should come to an end.
Cultural Study: - The first duty of any literary writer is to present the contemporary issues and picture of nation. Everyone has the right to voice and freedom of expression. So they are free to portray the condition of their country. But many follower of ideology and political discourse try to banned this kind of harsh reality, because they do not bear the bad images of their culture and country.
We have a recent example of Film Padmavat in which the group of people are banned because they do not like that people see about their culture. Another one is the documentary film "Nirbhaya gang rape" which was banned by the government because they believe that our new generation is spoiled because of the movie.
Post-colonialism:
General belief of the people is that writer must write about the glory and positive side of their country, and we believe that western people give awards on our bed images and they happy because they feel happy when they see our poor condition. But this is not right, we have many examples from the western works: Oliver Twist, Sense and Sensibility, The West Land etc.
These all works portrayed the reality of the society. In 'Oliver Twist', Dickens portrayed the poor law of Victorian Britain that how the cruel law for the poor and orphan children. After the publication of the novel 'Oliver Twist' British government pass the reformation bill and law about child laboring. So, we can say that is not about the people that they feel happy about our poor condition.
If we want to reform our poor condition, this kind of work is very important to open the eyes of power. I agree with this kind of way to show our reality. because such a work awake people as well as the power to stop this kind superstition and cruel ideology.
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