How a girl becomes a woman and how a boy becomes a man. If this is to be understood, the drama can be well understood from ‘Bakhtawar‘.
All are born from a self, but circumstances and events transform a human child into a man and a woman, from which society is formed.
While watching the drama serial ‘Bakht Awar’ aired on ‘Hum TV’ on Sunday, I remembered Arundhati Roy’s famous novel ‘God of small things’. There is also a side of the story about how children and society are formed. There are twin siblings, here one Bakhtawar is playing both roles.
From the beginning of the play, there is a shocking situation. The pace of the story is fast, otherwise the story revolves around harassment and cruelty, which also makes the viewer depressed. The fast pace of the play keeps the viewer interested in the attitudes of the society.
Author Nadia Akhtar says that the events and the story in this play are true but it is more difficult to put the truth in the scene. There is a greater risk of slippage, which is probably the reason why the sentence structure does not match the geography.
In the fourth episode, the plates of the phrase and the geography are set, it is here that the story seems to fly out of reality and into the fairy tale when a politician’s son comes into the life of Dilawar Bakhtawar or Bakhtu.
Bakhtawar is the main character of the story, who wants to become something by being educated but her father gambles in which he loses everything in the house, even one of his daughters may also lose in gambling.
Suddenly brings a red pair for her and asks her to get ready. Her father arranges her marriage to an old man and forcibly takes her away from home and marries her and never returns home after that.
The son leaves for the future on his deathbed.
Bakhtawar’s maternal uncle runs the expenses of his house but in return they want Bakhtawar to get married to their semi-mentally ill only son. Thus, there will be someone to manage their lands, but Bakhtawar refuses.
At a friend’s wedding, his brother Ahad, seeing Bakhtawar, expresses his desire to marry Bakhtawar to his sister, but she also refuses him.
All these situations have passed so quickly in the story that there is only one stanza:
‘Life goes fast, too fast’
I remembered another sentence written in the book ‘Dervishon Ka Dera’: ‘Life stands on a few pillars of a few decisions.’
In this play too, Bakhtawar’s life stands on a few pillars of decisions. She has to study, to be something, helplessly like her sister, not to be sacrificed for anyone. Not to be a helpless woman like your mother. Do something for yourself and yours.
It was not a difficult, very difficult decision and even more difficult to follow through on it. With the help of her friend’s brother Ahad, she leaves the town and goes to Karachi with her mother in the dark of night.
By staying at his mother’s cousin’s house for a few days in Karachi, his intentions are also revealed. Her aunts are planning to hand over her and her mother to Bakhtawar’s uncles for a huge amount of money, but Bakhtawar hears all this and has to run away once again.
A rented room is found on a lie, but it is not spent even in this neighborhood without a man. The further one goes into the swamp, the more one sinks. Life sometimes becomes a swamp of helplessness.
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The story suddenly takes a new turn and Bakhtawar is forced by the society to become a ‘Bakhtu’ meaning a boy. Now she comes across Bun, a teenage boy.
Even if the society is patriarchal, it is not easy for a woman to change her birth sex. The first love a person has is with himself, all his beauty is connected to his birth identity. This is nature. It also reveals the mystery that being a young boy is just as difficult as being a young girl.
The boy is a male block of the society. Even if he is abused, he cannot tell, cannot cry because he is a strong man in a male society. Now whether he is strong or not he has to show himself strong in the society.
From this it is known that a society incorporates a girl into a woman and a boy into a man’s social structure after much mental and physical torture.
In the same play we learn that neither all women are the same nor all men are the same.
On the one hand, if Bakhtawar’s father, aunt, boss, house owner and obash are local, on the other hand there are Ahad and Dilawar, as if only kindness and love are useful to cut the thorn inside a person.
Saira Ghulam Nabi, script in-charge of Hum TV, said about this drama: ‘There were two options in front of us, to make the girl a tom boy or to keep her as a girl. I thought that it should be seen from a woman’s side because we have also faced the society from a woman’s side.’
She says that the main theme of the play is harassment. ‘It is to tell how and where a woman as a woman faces harassment in the society.’
According to him, many scenes of the drama are completely based on truth. ‘There are real life events, which sometimes become news, but often don’t even become news.’
Saira added that she was happy that people liked the drama when it aired. ‘Three or four years of hard work with Nadia (writer) has paid off.’
So our dear readers and viewers keep watching the drama. It is a true story which is telling that the story takes place in the womb of the earth, but still there is a difference between life and drama. Before taking any step, think once that life is not the same for everyone.
It is as unique and different as the fingerprints of every human being. That’s why identity cards are decorated on identity cards. Recognize the identity of nature that you are the most unique in yourself.
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