Drama serial under fire for showing a man refusing to believe his wife after attempted ‘rape’ [VIDEO]
Pakistani drama serial Aitebaar is in hot waters because of its recent episode. The drama is written by Maimoona Aziz and directed by Nadeem Siddiqui. The drama serial features Zarnish Khan and Syed Jibran in lead roles, in the characters of Parisa and Hamza respectively. With such big names attached to the series, it is hard to believe that the drama is being criticized right now.
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The particular scene is from the second episode of the drama in which the wife Parisa is trying to convince Hamza that she was not raped, but Hamza refuses to believe his wife. Parisa and Hamza were in the car when kidnappers took Parisa with them after beating Hamza and leaving him on the road. However, Parisa luckily manages to escape from the situation and remains unharmed.
The episode showcases a husband not believing his wife, and assuming she was raped by goons after she clearly tells him that she was not raped. The husband in the scene says to his wife:
Mein nae bhula pa raha kay kisi geayr ne tumhe chuwa hai (I am unable to forget that some stranger has touched you.
Parisa explained that nothing happened to her but he refused to believe.
Pakistanis took to Twitter to call out the drama serial forshowing a husband victim blaming his wife:
I’ve always supported dramas based on rape victims etc but our drama industry never fails to disturb women by showing a raped woman recovered from any site in torn clothes who later spends her whole life proving her innocence to everyone around her particularly #aitbaar
— Fatima Sarwar (@fatima_sarwar13) January 31, 2022
A drama on @Humtvnetwork showing a woman got abducted & fights the goons to reach back home & now her husband’s not even looking at her cuz she MIGHT hv gotten raped! Wtf! Is jahil qaum ko mazeed jahil banany ka theka liya hua hai in channels ne!
— Tamkenat (@TamkenatM) January 31, 2022
This reminded me the movie Verna, what a disaster. Pakistani directors and writers need to really educate themselves before creating content on these issues because they are certainly doing more damage than good https://t.co/WX3doeFAD0
— malku (@atayyyf) February 1, 2022
Watched another one like that, I think 2 yrs back. The woman faces the worst emotional abuse from her husband and his family because she had been abducted on the wedding day. That was after which I stopped watching Pakistani dramas
— Sherry (@CherieDamour_) February 1, 2022
Ridiculous drama plot on Hum TV. Rich brat abducted a girl. She ran away later but husband refuses to believe her when she says nothing happened. He’s shooing her away.
— Saman Tariq (@stariq88) January 31, 2022
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