Tann Mann Neel O Neel (HUM) - Sehar Khan, Shuja Asad - Page 35

If you have watched all episodes of This drama then there is no way ya song Ap ko pasnd na a gaya ho.

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Watched a documentary on the killing of Mashal Khan. TMNON was a show we needed as a subcontinent. I keep going back to the show and its lifelike characters whose lives are so brutally brought to an end by the MOB. The whole arc of Moon for instance, from his pain following the assault, the moment when we see him injuring his foot which is his way of crying out and that perfect moment when he sits and drinks chai while looking into the eyes of the man who had violated him. It was such a powerful portrayal of an individual's search for dignity. Then the sensitive Sonu, so talented and passionate about his craft and yet carrying the pain that society's disregard and low esteem for the artist causes. His growing affection and then love for the dabang Raabi. And Raabi, the youtube vlogger with big dreams and a 'jugaadu' mind like no other. A truly intelligent and talented girl who needed a friend like Sonu to raise her confidence in her own abilities (she did not believe she had any talent worthy of being showcased in her own channel until Sonu convinced her that she was a good singer), we watch them grow together from strength to strength. This applies to other characters as well, be it Sonu's mother who on learning about her husband's murder, says that she leaves his punishment to Allah, or to Raabi's mother who had lived with a man she truly loved for all her married life without feeling his love for her in return, whose innocent and pure joy at finding affection from her husband is shattered in the most tragic way when she learns of his truth, his 'gunah'. Or Taayaji, Kami's father, who is truly the kind of patriarch who makes a house a home, who despite the position he finds himself in, is willing to step up for his niece time and again when it would have been only too easy to break her confidence and shatter her dreams. Despite the ugliness of the society that is brought before him through the snide mutterings of his wife or the more blatant accusations brought by his son, he chooses to trust in the goodness of humanity over and over again, till the very end before he sees the mob. These characters, they try to take only the good from the world they are in, ignoring the bad. Be it Kami and his friends threats to Sonu, or the 'gandi' comments under Raabi's videos on social media or the news of the Sri Lankan man lynched by a mob that Taayaji finds in the newspaper, this is the ugliness that they feel is outweighed by all the goodness around them. And yet all the while the morally decrepit, vile, petty, mean and regressive-minded souls who are only too amenable to the idea of crushing out this lightness exist. They do it in the name of God (aren't we all too familiar with that in India as well?) and they become monsters as they all too happily stamp out the dreams, the ambitions, the pure joys of their victims.

I saw the images and videos of Mashal Khan's lynching. His mother said that he had beautiful fingers and when they received his body, all his fingers were broken. (brings to mind what Sonu's mother said about Shaukat's body) As for the mob, I keep returning to that video of the man who has now been acquitted of a crime that he so openly confessed to committing, where he said "I came back after I killed them, called up the home minister and went to sleep… I felt like Rana Pratap, that I had done something like Maharana Pratap… I'd heard stories about him, but that day I myself did what he did." This is what he felt after committing atrocities which included cutting out a child from a mother's womb. Rana Pratap indeed.

Mashal Khan's friend told the reporter, "They were happy killing him".

They were doing it happily.

Something Haute sits down with Saife Hassan. Wish Mustafa Afridi was also there and we got to hear the duo together. but anyway excellent interview!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTWUUZh3qi4

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Watched a documentary on the killing of Mashal Khan. TMNON was a show we needed as a subcontinent. I keep going back to the show and its lifelike characters whose lives are so brutally brought to an end by the MOB. The whole arc of Moon for instance, from his pain following the assault, the moment when we see him injuring his foot which is his way of crying out and that perfect moment when he sits and drinks chai while looking into the eyes of the man who had violated him. It was such a powerful portrayal of an individual's search for dignity. Then the sensitive Sonu, so talented and passionate about his craft and yet carrying the pain that society's disregard and low esteem for the artist causes. His growing affection and then love for the dabang Raabi. And Raabi, the youtube vlogger with big dreams and a 'jugaadu' mind like no other. A truly intelligent and talented girl who needed a friend like Sonu to raise her confidence in her own abilities (she did not believe she had any talent worthy of being showcased in her own channel until Sonu convinced her that she was a good singer), we watch them grow together from strength to strength. This applies to other characters as well, be it Sonu's mother who on learning about her husband's murder, says that she leaves his punishment to Allah, or to Raabi's mother who had lived with a man she truly loved for all her married life without feeling his love for her in return, whose innocent and pure joy at finding affection from her husband is shattered in the most tragic way when she learns of his truth, his 'gunah'. Or Taayaji, Kami's father, who is truly the kind of patriarch who makes a house a home, who despite the position he finds himself in, is willing to step up for his niece time and again when it would have been only too easy to break her confidence and shatter her dreams. Despite the ugliness of the society that is brought before him through the snide mutterings of his wife or the more blatant accusations brought by his son, he chooses to trust in the goodness of humanity over and over again, till the very end before he sees the mob. These characters, they try to take only the good from the world they are in, ignoring the bad. Be it Kami and his friends threats to Sonu, or the 'gandi' comments under Raabi's videos on social media or the news of the Sri Lankan man lynched by a mob that Taayaji finds in the newspaper, this is the ugliness that they feel is outweighed by all the goodness around them. And yet all the while the morally decrepit, vile, petty, mean and regressive-minded souls who are only too amenable to the idea of crushing out this lightness exist. They do it in the name of God (aren't we all too familiar with that in India as well?) and they become monsters as they all too happily stamp out the dreams, the ambitions, the pure joys of their victims.

I saw the images and videos of Mashal Khan's lynching. His mother said that he had beautiful fingers and when they received his body, all his fingers were broken. (brings to mind what Sonu's mother said about Shaukat's body) As for the mob, I keep returning to that video of the man who has now been acquitted of a crime that he so openly confessed to committing, where he said "I came back after I killed them, called up the home minister and went to sleep… I felt like Rana Pratap, that I had done something like Maharana Pratap… I'd heard stories about him, but that day I myself did what he did." This is what he felt after committing atrocities which included cutting out a child from a mother's womb. Rana Pratap indeed.

Mashal Khan's friend told the reporter, "They were happy killing him".

They were doing it happily.

You have expressed the core of the drama so beautifully. Such a thought provoking drama.

Seher Khan's TMNoN covered in this article

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-drama-indian-fans-soap-opera-tv-8b0f4f1f5fba2d66f819a682d3803aca

Rabi and Sonu in an alternate universe

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHG9lhHszTF/

This is still getting recognition

https://x.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1902231057602379859