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Daughter [Dukhtar]

Posted on December 23, 2016June 28, 2021 by Village Vidiot

    “Daughter [Dukhtar],” December 23, 2016 (2014), DVD, home.    The tribal areas of Pakistan are truly tribal and the subject of this look at tribalism, gender and women in that area. And one should look at this film. It’s visually stunning, although there are some incredibly perplexing gaps in the story line and script, some inexplicable and needless complications of the plot line, and a rather predictable and trite ending. Two tribal communities have been at war decimating one another and the two tribal chiefs meet and agree to make peace by marrying the ten-year old daughter of one to the other aged leader. The young girl’s mother Allah Rakhi (Samiya Mumtaz) kidnaps her and runs off, secreting herself in the truck of Sohail (Mohib Mirza), who has his own story as a former Mujahedeen fighter. The chase makes some things clear and some things even more opaque, but it’s so gorgeous a piece of work and the theme is so important that it’s worth a watch

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