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Title: Pakistan’s Open Secret
Post by: Shana A on December 14, 2011, 08:24:53 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 14, 2011, 08:24:53 AM
Pakistan's Open Secret
Published: December 14, 2011
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Entertainment/14-Dec-2011/Pakistans-Open-Secret (http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Entertainment/14-Dec-2011/Pakistans-Open-Secret)
CLOVER 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.
Published: December 14, 2011
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Entertainment/14-Dec-2011/Pakistans-Open-Secret (http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Entertainment/14-Dec-2011/Pakistans-Open-Secret)
CLOVER 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.