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A young woman who goes to Dubai as a household, and the rich Memsaab she works for. Both young women, but worlds apart. But are they really? You need to watch Pinky Memsaab on Netflix.
Pinky Memsaab is a Pakistani movie about a young, naive, pure at heart young girl Pinky who goes to Dubai to work for a rich Pakistani couple with a small child as a house help. She leaves behind a grieving frail mom, a failed marriage, and a loving but scheming uncle who needed her money for his family’s better life.
There are two worlds out there. The world of the house helps; vulnerable, susceptible, and lonely, who have left their family in their villages and are struggling to support them, and mostly being taken advantage of by their immediate family.
The driver, for example, beneath the veneer of a happy go lucky person with a false sense of bravado, shows his loneliness and longing to belong.
One of the touching scenes is a nervous Pinky playing with her hair speaking about how her inability to bear a child made her husband whom she was crazy about leave her. She has a smile on her face but her eyes are filled with pain. The house helps bond with each other over their real problems.
And then there is the life of the masters; beautiful and rich, having parties drenched in wine.
Pinky’s memsaab Meher is a beautiful woman who has a perfect body and a face to match. Her house is beautiful, she has a group of friends; the ladies who lunch and are rich like her with loads of free time on their hands. But Meher is always unhappy and caustic. She is a failed writer who aspires to be like Kamila Shamshie, and her successful husband though sympathetic, does not understand her need to write. Her character is well layered out – she is friendly with Pinky but it is clear that she is the Memsaab.
So the rich and poor are like East and West and never the twain can meet.
Then an incident happens, and both Memsaab /Meher’s and Pinky’s life change. Both struggle to fight their fate and carve their own identities.
Pinky Memsaab is a 2018 Urdu-language Pakistani drama film. It stars Hajra Yamin, Kiran Malik, Adnan Jaffar, Sunny Hinduja, Khalid Ahmed and Shamim Hilaly.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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