Is Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar win exploiting social ills for personal gains?

[Shamraz_Khan]

Re: Is Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar win exploiting social ills for personal gains?

@SID_NY

Sharmeen obaid is the new malala for Pakistani public. They always find someone to blame for something.

the question is, do these not exist in our society? Whats wrong in highlighting them? If done properly something good may happen but i dont see anything bad in that.

Anybody wana stop sharmeen obaid or anyone else from portraying such problems, then stop these issues at all. Or atleast show your contribution towards it. We dont do anything ourselves and then get ready to blame others. What service are we doing exactly?!!

Highlighting terrible things in society and educating people is important, but the question is who was this documentary intended for? The documentary was made for HBO in English for western audience and it does little good to the country except to make it look bad.

“The world already has a grim opinion about Pakistan and Pakistanis. Whenever I travel I am viewed with a certain degree of suspicion by people. I take offence from this documentary because I don’t believe in honor killing. Nor do hundreds of other Pakistani men I know. Nor do hundreds of thousands of other Pakistani men that I do not know personally. But thanks to Sharmeen and her desire to win an Academy award and make gora film friends, we’re all clumped together in the eyes of the world.”