Pakistan's Open Secret
Published: December 14, 2011
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Entertainment/14-Dec-2011/Pakistans-Open-SecretCLOVER films with producer and director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and senior producer Jamie Doran released their documentary on Channel 4 in UK entitled Transgenders: Pakistan's Open Secret. In a never-before-seen side of life in Pakistan, this film follows the stories of three transgender people, each of whom represent a different way of life in the country. Transgenders: Pakistan's Open Secret follows the stories of three individuals. Maggie is a prostitute who dreams of becoming an airhostess while Chahat was abandoned to the streets by her middle-class family for her feminine ways. Sana is Karachi's most sought-after transgender dancer, who wants to give up the profession after a particularly gruesome gang-rape. Flamboyant, colourful and eccentric, many amongst Pakistan's transgender community scrape a living together through dancing, singing and begging on the mean streets of Karachi. Many, though, earn money catering for the sexual needs of local men in the city's seedier districts.
