Maya Ki Maya

Maya Khan has truly provoked the social media and activists by her morning show aired on January 17^th 2012 on Samaa TV. I am not at all a Morning Show person as I don’t want to see a fake wedding happening in a closed studio or watch overly excited anchors behaving like school kids. And so I wondered what nature of event could have instigated such hype about a morning show? My curiosity directed me to look into the content that had triggered such hate comments and strong reactions on almost all Social Networking Sites.

I will say, I thought I would be able to sit through the entire episode but realized in just 10 minutes that it was important to log off if I had to survive this selective suicidal watch!

There were about ten desperate housewives accompanying the “Jugga host” and the entire camera team to a public park. Their intention was to catch young couples meeting and “Hai Allah Dating” in a sacred sanctuary as a park! The ‘thrill’ that evidently is the primary objective to achieve in their own dull and boring lives, lies in running after victims who thought they had a mutual understanding and the democratic right to meet each other.

The anchor apparently is in a very gracious mood and allows her “Star Plus” shagirds to play this hide and seek game with these unaware boys and girls. Apparently “life main moqa aik hee baar milta hey!” and so, the rampage leads to uncover yet another horrifying reality that has poisoned our society, the “thekedaar attitude”! 

These ladies chase yet another couple who request the cameras to be switched off. On being hammered by the anchor to declare their relationship status, the girl announces the boy as her fiancée. The rest of the “Hun maza aye ga na!” team gangs up on them till they are left with no choice but to leave! They then sit down a little bored with the declaration! “She didn’t look engaged at all!” I’m yet to decipher this comment! If anyone can identify the ‘engaged look’ please do help me out of my misery! And the biggest loud mouth states, “Even if you are engaged, what is the purpose of meeting in the park! Why can’t you meet at home in presence of the parents?” Ok, quite obviously these women just never experienced the emotional joy of ‘being in love’! The restless night that awaits the morning and with it the arrival of beautiful moments to share. Alas! In this case, these moments got hijacked by “Kuri dee besharmee wekhi see!” Of course, their own shameless actions of capturing videos without consent, bullying young minds without any rationale and enjoying the dismissal of individual choices did not seem to hold much meaning.

This group of women quite honestly represent the ugliest minds in our society. They carry such loud and repulsive labels as they march around our neighbourhoods that many parents are discouraged to allow their daughters out of their protection in fear of them carrying a label home. 

If only, our parents would stand up to denounce such intrusive and bullying acts, we could hope to stand up to such “PHUPPEY KUTNIS!”