![]() ![]() The human trafficking industry in India is estimated to generate $4 billion a year and has at its core investors, unscrupulous recruiters, and corrupt public officials as principal participants. Six hours spent here with a Bhojpuri-speaking sex worker, explains his fluency in the language, and the power it begets him. So PK is taken to a local brothel with an assortment of women trafficked from different parts of the country. In the picture, activists protest against the film in JammuĪ little later in the film, PK’s Bhairon Singh ‘Bhaaya’ claims to understand his ‘frustration’ and is charitable enough to provide a remedy. The Bollywood comedy-drama PK has attracted both controversy and unprecedented success. If PK were a woman, the story would have unfolded differently.įirstly, there is no way that a fair, tongue-tied woman would have survived roaming naked in the villages and towns without attracting unwanted attention and possible sexual assault. PK’s director Rajkumar Hirani was clever enough to realise that a happy ending can only be achieved with a male alien desperate to go back home.Įven in the films, especially the ones made for viewing with family, we still can’t run the risk of depicting a lost woman. The national capital, and by extension the entire country, is grossly biased against half of its population – women. Not many women have this luxury, either in this city or elsewhere. Instead, her courage lies in living alone, traversing the length and breadth of Delhi without getting molested, dealing skilfully with largely misogynistic Delhi Police personnel and still ensuring a safe ‘ghar wapsi’ for herself every evening. She is brave, not because she recovered from the heartbreak and focused on her career. Jaggu is a brave woman whose life is turned upside down by the dogmas of religion.Īfter a predestined betrayal by a Muslim Pakistani boy – who ‘uses’ her body at the first opportunity he gets – she comes back to Delhi from Bruges only to be abandoned by her family. I have therefore decided to mention both ‘ghar wapsi’ and PK here, and here comes my contention: PK’s ‘ghar wapsi’ has been heroically facilitated by a woman. ![]() While the former creates an ‘image’ of an unseen God as per his or her own notions, the latter also interprets a film in the light of their subjectivity.Īs a result, in our minds, Jesus is always white and so is James Bond. Anushka Sharma’s character in PK shows the hazards women face and why ‘ghar wapsi’ should be understood in this context ![]()
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