War of art
The author is a Life Style Editor of The Express Tribune. He tweets as @Rafay_Mahmood
Human beings are able of doing miracles. If a recognition that a past has to convey a destiny led to a birth of story-telling than a ability to use a hands over quarrel or moody responses done us innovate and tailor a universe as per a needs and requirements. Isn’t that breathtakingly beautiful? Indeed, it is. Due to a weight-to-size suit we are a hundred times some-more expected to die of free-fall as compared to something as considerate as an insect. By that logic, any tumble should be a training knowledge for us and any recovery, humbling. And any time we fall, it is a unwavering preference and not a mistake. This can't reason truer for Pakistani and Indian artists who have not usually depressed on their heads again and again, though this time around even motionless to take adult a fight with gravity.
The sharpening tragedy between Pakistan and India has brought a misfortune out of a artists and unfortunately they’ve picked guns over guitars. The widespread voices on both sides of a limit have lucky hatred as a knee-jerk greeting in a conditions that is zero new for artists on both sides of a border.
Kashmir emanate or not, Pathankot or not, Uri conflict or not, we am not repelled by a palliate with that artists on both sides of a limit have antagonised any other. It is though healthy to be a open figure and collect sides underneath increasingly regressive regimes though it is unequivocally assumed and roughly supernatural for an artist to arrangement such affinity for bloodshed. Maybe we am being unfair to a aliens as well.
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Amitabh Bachchan who uttered a good assent anthem, ‘Nazar Mae Rehtay Ho Jab Tum Nazar Nahin Atay, Yeh Sur Bulatay Hain Jab Tum Idhar Nahin Atay’ might have done Gulzar tumble from his bed, after his whimsical response. “Don’t disaster with a Indian Army,” he tweeted, followed by a outrageous spin of acclaim by his followers.
Our unequivocally possess Jason Bourne, Shaan Shahid, like always took this event to return his rejection of being a soldier. “Finally a Indian stars have tweeted in support for Indian troops; it is ashamed from a Pakistani actors to not uncover support for Pakistani troops,” he posted on Facebook.
Within a blink of an eye all artists operative in Bollywood became traitors nonetheless this joining of unusual group and women are approach some-more gifted than Shaan and have cemented their identities on both sides of a limit though an existent lineage. Mahira, Fawad, Ali Zafar and Atif, we feel for we and for a nation that is increasingly figure a mainstream account with no place for supportive people; thinkers who honestly trust that art has no boundaries.
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The irony is that in such a state of dignified crisis, even India is unequivocally most a partial of a problem. Despite carrying behaving humanities and rituals secure low into their eremite mythology and culture, all it took was a Narendra Modi to spin a lucid voices into echoes of a days past. Be it someone as mythological as Lata Mangeshkar to someone as ridiculously irrelevant as Varun Dhawan, they are joined in foster of war. And whenever an Om Puri indeed breaks overpower on a million dollar question, a likes of Hamza Ali Abbasi and Ashir Azeem take us behind to a Line of Control. And a rest is catalysed by a media on both sides of a border.
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What we have drawn for we is not unequivocally a mural of an artist as a immature male though a mural of an artist who has lost that art is a product of imagination, not policies. You don’t make art for any country, we don’t make art for a sold audience, we make it for yourself. And if people describe to it, they find an wholly new definition to their possess romantic experience.
Today, we skip a artist who writes of a improved tomorrow when a universe is about to end, who sings a strain of Sassi where women are being killed for honour and who paints a design of tellurian pang when his nation is about to go on a battle.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 6th, 2016.
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