*missed blog post
Mahira Khan's and Atif Aslam's characters in Shoaib Mansoor's Bol croon "Hona tha pyaar, hua meray yaar." For me the sentiment is unsettling not just because of the corny romantic allusions but also because the song implies that the love the two characters share was predestined, aligning it with the phrase that Hakim Sahib uses perpetually "khuda ki marzi". For me this is problematic because the little agency that Mahira's character shows is in her defiance of her religious restriction by falling in love with Mustafa, but the song implies that even this was not a choice for her and rather in line with her beliefs because it was a product of divine will.
Mahira Khan's and Atif Aslam's characters in Shoaib Mansoor's Bol croon "Hona tha pyaar, hua meray yaar." For me the sentiment is unsettling not just because of the corny romantic allusions but also because the song implies that the love the two characters share was predestined, aligning it with the phrase that Hakim Sahib uses perpetually "khuda ki marzi". For me this is problematic because the little agency that Mahira's character shows is in her defiance of her religious restriction by falling in love with Mustafa, but the song implies that even this was not a choice for her and rather in line with her beliefs because it was a product of divine will.
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