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The trending drama serial “Baaghi” portrays an aspect of struggles of a women’s life in the prevailing society. Fouzia Batool a.k.a Qandeel Baloch, as depicted in the drama “Baaghi” apparently might seem to be only “Qandeel Baloch” but the sequence of plot holds a significance and is symbolical for every woman of this society who tends to fly beyond the ordinary and that is why it has grabbed hearts of many people and captured a huge population of fans.
Fouzia Batool is a girl who is romanticist and rebel in nature and is her own heroine. She is born among the ones who dream to feed her own instincts and grow mature her own wings and is rather different than an average woman around her in her village. Other women around her also fancy the acts of Fouzia Batool and the life she desires for herself but they are mentally being tamed in a manner which makes Fouzia Batool the focus of attention ever since her puberty.
There are dreams of every girl in her early youth, just as Fauzia Batool had. She doesn’t want to take life that seriously, neither is she ready to become involved in domestic issues a little too earlier than her age. She loves to be the focus of attention because she feels she has the capability to outshine. Constant fail attempts of the character in the pursuit of recognition of her dreams further fuel up the fire in her heart. Fouzia Batool, besides having some flaws, she herself became a tragic hero because of the norms and values.
Unfortunately, it is not bad to want a man in our society for women but it is a tragedy to think about one’s own self. The analysis of title and the title song in the drama “Baaghi”, pretty much justifies the character of Qandeel Baloch and the role of society where it says, “Mai Haari Taqdeer – Bin Ranjhaa Mai Heer”. Why is she depicted as a heer without her romantic other half is, because of her longing and recognition of her own self? It is not bad to dream of a man but it is rather sinful to dream of your own self. The road to recognition of self for women in such a society is indeed a hard one. Some give up while others end up being an example for the world. It is up to the society, in which way to interpret the example. While analysing characters like so, one should always look at the roots before judging the fruits.
The constant denial of her real self by the society and her family catches in her soul the fire of recognition day by day. On a mental level, every human needs acceptance, the acceptance which seemed to be missing in Fouzia Batool’s life. The constant suppression in her made her a rebel because she was amongst the one who could not help herself taming her mind.
In the middle of the drama, she falls in love with the shopkeeper who sold out jewellery, cosmetics and fashion magazines. He is depicted as a lover of Fouzia Batool, who gifted fashion magazines and bright lipsticks to her. Fouzia Batool fell in love with him not because he was a better person to be with. He gifted Fozia Batool not mere magazines but her dreams.
The only reason why this tragic heroine falls head over heels for the man is that she finds him a person selling out and giving her the dreams which she kept on suppressing despite being expressive. She found in his job, the acceptance of her real self which was lacking in her life. I’d love to put up a question that, “Why is it so that Fouzia Batool unlike most of the women of our society did not demand tons of gold and riches?”.
A recurring dialogue which Fouzia Batool says is that “Abid ne mujhse waaday kiyay hain, woh mujhay sab kuch karnay dayga”. This shows that she rather fell in love with a staircase to her dreams than the man himself. Had she dreamt of one man and had she been a heer for chasing a man, she would have chosen to become someone else in his love. She constantly pays for not ceasing to be herself. She becomes Qandeel Baloch for holding onto her dreams. The monologue of the most recent episode of Fouzia Batool depicts her real self.
In our society, very often, mothers from the middle and lower class tells the daughter that,“Shohor kay ghar jaa kar ye nakhray karna, apnay armaan poray karna. Ek baar apnay ghar ki hojaye tu bas” which is why, most of the times, a girl always fancy to marry a guy who can bring her stars from the sky and which is why a girl in our society romanticise the one-man and expects a lot from him. It is one of those so many aspects that contribute to male patriarchy, gender discrimination and imbalanced society.
The character of Qandeel Baloch lies somewhere hidden in all of us. Every girl at the age of her puberty wishes to look attractive like a model. Every girl in her early teens fancies a male/female actor. Every girl in her early teens had danced behind the curtains. To dance and move the body in specific flexible ways has been a dream of every girl in her puberty in our society.
The mirror is one of the most liked and a must-have thing that a girl has in her room and many times, at the age of puberty, mothers even forbid the young girls for not looking into the mirror all the time. Many of them wear attractive lipstick shades secretly in the same mirror and fancy to be bold attractive women. Some put on dazzling highlighters after they leave the home.
It is in the blood of Adam and Eve to look beautiful but unfortunately, our society kills this natural phenomenon in daughters of Eve. Does that not sound like the Fouzia Batool which we have known in the” Baaghi” drama? No? Some are courageous while others are shy. Some choose to stay true to themselves while others take off masks over masks. Some succeed while others fail. Just because of her little flaws, wrong time and of a fact that she was from an uneducated background made her go astray in many ways.
The question which this striking plot puts up says,”what is that specific thing which makes “Fouzia Batool” “The Qandeel Baloch” and not other women around her like her despite fancying forms of life which Fouzia Batool fancied.” This question might lead to thoughts like this that Fouzia Batool was a rebel and headstrong but I’d like to add that, “Every lock has its own key” and human race consists of infinite locks. To find a proper key is a job which God has left to humans but unfortunately, our stiff ego and misunderstood cultural persona have assigned us confusing tasks.
There is a saying, “It takes two to quarrel”. Everything on this face of the earth is two-sided. Even the existence of earth, humans, God and life itself. It is a common logic that nothing in the sequence of nature happens itself. Why do we fail to see the same two-sided approach in matters like the ones depicted in “Baaghi”? After all, it took some external force for Fouzia Batool to be Qandeel Baloch.
Just because we being humans, the mentally superior of all the creations fail to find proper key to the mysterious lock created by God does not mean we should abandon it or kill it. Abandoning or killing the mysterious marvels of God, be it emotionally or physically, contributes to the failure of humans to master humanity.
