Recently, the Drama serial Aitebaar received backlash on Twitter for showing a triggering scene where a husband refuses to even look at his wife after she is abducted because he is under the impression that she has been sexually abused.
A lot of dramas in the industry are being criticized for their baseless stories and cheap content. Such absurd content does not just violate the norms of society but also leaves a negative impact on the viewers. Lately, a man also tried to be Feedi (Feroze Khan) from Khuda or Muhabbat 3 to channel his inner Romeo.
The traumatized wife played by Zarnish Khan tries to make her husband Syed Jibran ‘feel better’ after she escaped kidnapping but he refuses to believe her ‘innocence.’
Netizens are not okay with this display of toxicity in Aitebaar. A Twitterati said, she usually supports dramas based on rape victims but our drama industry has a toxic way of portraying survivors that force women to spend “her whole life proving her innocence to everyone around her.”
Take a look at the reactions!
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
To be fair humtv has the least number of chawal dramas as compare to other channels. It is the only reason i don't bash them that much. Like all humtv's chawal drama combined are no match for aye musht-e-khak 😓
— Sam (@ucinfected) January 31, 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
Yar even if she was raped…to kya? Us ki kya ghalati hai is mein? Aur kya uski koi cheez toot ke gir gai hai agar uska rape ho gya? Dialogues like MEIN ABHI BHI WOHI PARI HUN. bhai rape ke baad bhi banda wohi rehta hai. Koi odi jeoon nae badal jandi. Ajeeb jahalat
— Tamkenat (@TamkenatM) January 31, 2022
Me and my husband were talking abt the same thing half an hour back. He said "bus itnee mohabbat thee?? Aietbaar nahi kr sakta apni biwi per tu mohabbat ka daawa kyon tha?"
Felt kinda proud to be his wife at the moment.
— S_S_A – #امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور (@sabaajwad) January 31, 2022
Why is a woman’s or in this case a wife’s rape an issue for the man? What has he lost? What was taken from him? His masculinity? Is any of that comparable to what the woman endured? The pain she went through? Her trauma? Why is the man’s feelings even in the equation?
— Rabi (@khrabi25) January 31, 2022
https://twitter.com/fatima_sarwar13/status/1488191339057537030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488191339057537030%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.dawn.com%2Fnews%2F1189399
Similarly, an insane story was depicted in the Pakistani movie Verna starring Mahira Khan, Haroon Shahid, Naimal Khawar, etc. in which husband Haroon Shahid would not look at his wife who got raped.
Such messed-up mindsets and immoral trains of thought in society poison the mentalities of many. Instead of changing such a frame of mind, these absurd stories shown on TV are fueling more negativity and further mistreatment of women in our nation.
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