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LAHORE, Pakistan — Church leaders and others in Pakistan lauded the producers and cast of a TV drama for risking their lives to broadcast an unprecedented, national media portrayal of the violent injustice resulting from blasphemy laws.
In the final episode of Hum TV’s drama series, “Tan Man Neel o Neel [loosely translated as “Body and Soul Badly Bruised”], a professional dance team is performing at a wedding when an unexpected video on a large screen shows one of them, Sonu (played by Shuja Asad) dancing at a venerable Sikh mansion. Soon a Muslim, Kami (played by Muhammad Usman Javed), who sneaked the video in, rises up and falsely accuses Sonu of dancing in a mosque in the video.
A flashback shows Kami — who has designs on Sonu’s dance partner and love interest, the lovely Raabi (played by Sehar Khan) — plotting the premeditated attack with his cohorts. Asked how they could assert that the Sikh house is a “holy site,” Kami tells them, “By the time they figure out if it’s a religious location, the mob will have done their work.”
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In the final episode of Hum TV’s drama series, “Tan Man Neel o Neel [loosely translated as “Body and Soul Badly Bruised”], a professional dance team is performing at a wedding when an unexpected video on a large screen shows one of them, Sonu (played by Shuja Asad) dancing at a venerable Sikh mansion. Soon a Muslim, Kami (played by Muhammad Usman Javed), who sneaked the video in, rises up and falsely accuses Sonu of dancing in a mosque in the video.
A flashback shows Kami — who has designs on Sonu’s dance partner and love interest, the lovely Raabi (played by Sehar Khan) — plotting the premeditated attack with his cohorts. Asked how they could assert that the Sikh house is a “holy site,” Kami tells them, “By the time they figure out if it’s a religious location, the mob will have done their work.”
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Christians laud bravery of TV series daring to show deadly violence of Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Church leaders and others in Pakistan lauded the producers and cast of a TV drama for risking their lives to broadcast an unprecedented, national media portrayal of the violent injustice resulting
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