The life of a woman in a typical Pakistani village is the
life of Qandeel Baloch. Poor families in Pakistan and underprivileged men
prefer men in all phases of life. Women obey their husbands and have no say in
their lives ' main decisions.
The stories of Qandeel Baloch and Kanwal Baloch (the name
of the dramatic character) are in many respects similar. Qandeel was actually
confronted with similar situations. Many people called her Pakistan's Kim
Kardashian but Qandeel was poor, without a socio-economic privilege. She was
– a girl without anybody around her support or help. Her provocative social
media posts, to which she was relentlessly shamed by those same men who went to
her Facebook page to see her and send her hateful or lewd comments, helped her
to gain fame. Qandeel was murdered by
her brother who said she was ‘tarnishing the Baloch name’ and of late Mufti
Qavi, an ex-member of the moon-sighting committee was also booked under the
charges of Qandeel’s murder. Qandeel's father insisted that the assassination
of Qandeel had been instigated by Qavi. The risk of this serial is to overlap
Qandeel's own image with the original, be it a feminist icon or a moralizing
lesson. She knew alone how much was real and fantasy about the shocking
person she projected. "There are many young women who want to be a model
but exploited in the same way as Qandeel, there is not one Qandeel in the
infected society of Pakistan," said Baaghi. So Baaghi is Qandeel's story
with multiple girls like her.
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