I have not seen Waar but I am sure it keeps narrative of ‘we are right, everyone else is wrong, and India is enemy’.
MONTREAL: This is in response to Asad Rahim Khan’s article “So what if ISPR funded ‘Waar’?” Khuda Ke Liye, while trying to speak against religious extremism, perpetuated its own twisted dogma, anti-West bias and kept its stringent, ridiculous middle class morality solidly in place. Bol did not speak for the women or the transgender character it represented, molested and raped, and killed off its main character.
I have not seen Waar but I am sure it keeps the narrative of ‘we are right and everyone else is wrong, and India is the enemy’. As long as films do not challenge the status quo and lack nuance and treat the public like unintelligent automatons, instead of thinking human beings, we will not see quality cinema, only propaganda.
Arshad Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, October 24th, 2013.
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