Cultural studies and postcolonial

Online discussion on Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy in context of Cultural Studies and postcolonial
     
=) Sharmeen obaid chinoy :-

                       

                      Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (born 12 November 1978) is a Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and activist. She is known for her work in films that highlight the inequality with women. She is the recipient of two Academy Awards, six Emmy Awards and a Lux Style Award. In 2012, the Government of Pakistan honoured her with the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the second highest civilian honour of the country, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is the only female film director to have won two academy awards by the age of 37.

           

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Academy Award for her documentary, A Girl in the River, has been much celebrated at home. Deservedly so.

Like her first Oscar-winning documentary, Saving Face, which spotlit the horror of acid attacks, this too is a visceral, urgent piece of filmmaking. But alongside the jubilation is another view, persistent and petty, that is inevitably voiced at such occasions. Widely shared by politicians, journalists, religious leaders, in short ‘patriots’ of all stripes, this opinion has it that Sharmeen has done a grave disservice to her country by highlighting the misery of ordinary Pakistanis to further her own career. Hence the Twitter trend: Disown Sharmeen.

I heard this argument in London when Arvind Adiga won the Booker Prize for his novel, The White Tiger. (It’s particularly shrill, by the way, when prestigious western prizes are being awarded.)

An Indian friend of mine, an educated, sophisticated man, deplored the fact that the book portrayed ‘such a negative image of India’.

Why, he asked, ‘had Adiga chosen not to write about the so many nice, nice things that are happening in India?’ The same critique was also trotted out when Danny Boyle’s film, Slumdog Millionaire, won big at the Oscars. Or when Malala won the Nobel Prize. Or Sharmeen her first Oscar. Really, why can’t all these people just photoshop our reality? Why can’t they hide our flaws and emphasize our virtues so we can win the respect and admiration of western societies? (Many ‘concerned citizens’ in Pakistan ask why Sharmeen didn’t make a film about that tireless humanitarian, Edhi, or better still, about the victims of drone strikes, cataloguing American injustice, rather than our own.)


=) Cultural Study:-  
                

                 
                  The prime duty of any literary writer is to present the contemporary issues and picture of nation. Everyone has the right to voice and freedom of expression. So they are free to portrayed the condition of their country. But many follower of ideology and political discourse try to banned this kind of harsh reality, because they do not bear the bad images of their culture and country.
We have recently example of Film Padmavat in which the group of people banned film because the do not like that people see about their culture.

=) Post-colonialism :-

               General belief of the people is that writer must write about the glory and positive side of their country, and we Asian believe that western people give awards on our bed images and they happy because western people feel happy when they see our poor condition. But this is not right, we have many examples from the western works:

- Oliver Twist
- Sense and sensibility

These all works portrayed the reality of the society. In 'Oliver Twist', Dickens portrayed the poor law of Victorian Britain that how the cruel law for the poor and orphan children. After the publication of the novel 'Oliver Twist' British government pass the reformation bill and law about child laboring. So, we can say that is is not about western people that they feel happy on our poor condition.

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