’Showgirls of Pakistan’: Dial M for mujra
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’Showgirls of Pakistan’: Dial M for mujra

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A car pulls up to a McDonald’s takeaway window. The girl is Afreen, one of three protagonists of Saad Khan’s Showgirls Of Pakistan. Poster for the film Mujra may be a way out of poverty for its practitioners but it’s also, the film reminds us, a dangerous, unstable world. “There’s no interest to save them, even from the non-profit sector, which really champions women’s rights,” Khan tells Alvi. “On their own they’re navigating the patriarchy through institutions like the arts council or the police or the local goon who comes to the show, and you have to decide, in order to put food on the table, which section of the patriarchy do I have to get close with?”

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