A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is a 2015 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy about honor killings in Pakistan.
Sharmeen
and Arvind Adiga both show the reality and dirty image of their nation.
Sharmeen shows the reality of women killing for honor of family and Arvind
Adiga portrayed the harsh reality of India. There is an argued against Arvind
Adiga that why he portrayed ugly and negative image of India, Rather than good
or Positive side of India? People want admiration of Western people. They
thought that if we portrayed negative image of our country then the Western
will never wants to come in our country. There is an interesting example of the
film based on Nirbhaya rape case. This film was banned by government of India.
The reason behind it that if the Westerns know that the things like rape happened more in India then they never
like to come in India. But the people like Malala, Denny Boyle, Arvind Adiga
and Sharmeen who portrayed the reality of their nation. Their purpose is only
to tell the truth and reality. Shrmeen’s film are about truly heroic have
suffered appealing cruelty and oppression but who have refused to be silenced.
The hundreds of women are
murdered every year for honor, yet it’s taken the buzz that Shrmeen’s single
film has generated abroat to promote Nawas Sharif’s avowal to put an end to
honor killing at home and embolden Imran Khan to publically decry the practice,
I am completely agree with her words that if we find that these stories shame
us then we must do something about them. But for those of us still fixated on
the image issue, it’s quite simple really, you want better PR? Improve the
Product.
People
like Adiga when trys to give his views on dirty side of India then it can not
be considered as good one and some people or political leaders have problems
with them that they are putting bad image in front of new generation which is
not true.
