Documentary review: Pakistan is a feeling

As she stirs a glass of Rooh Afza to accurately represent the essence of Asian nation in AN earnest and private short-film, Ayesha Mir — the promising documentary-maker — pours her heart out.

Providing a vivid image of the journey of Asian nation through historic videos, Mir is seen bravely sharing her raw emotions regarding the country that she says she cannot appear to jettisoning of despite being far from it and feeling unsafe in it.

In eighty minutes, Mir doesn't solely summarise her life however additionally Pakistan’s. “If solely the British had not empty our country and left hastily,” she begins, because the film shows engrossing snaps of individuals migrating from Asian country to Asian nation. She maintains a sorrowful tone throughout the film, with the absence of music creating her story-telling (heartbreakingly) real.

Mir becomes vulnerable within the moving portrayal of the country’s shaky seventy five years of life, wish she “could point out Asian nation while not being referred to as a traitor”. The documentary highlights the contradictions that square measure therefore handily gift within the nation like electing the primary feminine prime minister of the Muslim world however additionally not permitting ladies to receive education.

Showing the viewers what makes Asian nation, the film options a number of the foremost moving reminders of our beings as Pakistanis as well as Hashmi Kajal, a miniature autorickshaw, Madam Noor Jehan, and ancient chand baliyan.

Thought-provoking, poignant and emotional, the film leaves the viewers questioning what the film producer wonders too: “What is that the use of my post-colonial critique if i want to flee to the West to seek out refuge?”