I want to talk about how Gul bahar's life never gets better for her even after getting married. She has been in the profession of prostitution since the beginning of her life and it is Shah Jee who takes her out of the viscous cycle that she has become a part of. Initially she is lucky in the sense that her friend is still in that profession but she finally gets an opportunity to get out of it by virtue of marriage. She finally gets settled and gives birth to a son with Shah jee.
However, her past does not leave her alone and one of her employees comes back to her and starts to blackmail her and ends up publishing scandals about her life in the newspaper. Gul Bahar's life takes a turn once again. The miseries of the past that she let go of after years of marriage come back to her sending her into feelings of self hatred once again. She starts saying stuff like : "isse ziada tou wahan paisa tha mere paas" and "itna bura tou wahan bi nai hota jahan insaan apna jism bhechta hai."
Her self evaluation of self and the body shows how in our society this profession is seen in an extremely negaive light and those people that even try to come out of it have a stigma attached to them for the rest of their lives. Shah jee too starts to distance himself from her by staying at the other house and barely visiting Gul Bahar. And it is these circumstances that make Gul Bahar leave her son and her husband when she goes away towards the end of the drama. It shows us how even though she was not involved in the most respectable of professions she cannot bear the fact that her husbands stops respecting her even after he had accepted her for what she was.
However, her past does not leave her alone and one of her employees comes back to her and starts to blackmail her and ends up publishing scandals about her life in the newspaper. Gul Bahar's life takes a turn once again. The miseries of the past that she let go of after years of marriage come back to her sending her into feelings of self hatred once again. She starts saying stuff like : "isse ziada tou wahan paisa tha mere paas" and "itna bura tou wahan bi nai hota jahan insaan apna jism bhechta hai."
Her self evaluation of self and the body shows how in our society this profession is seen in an extremely negaive light and those people that even try to come out of it have a stigma attached to them for the rest of their lives. Shah jee too starts to distance himself from her by staying at the other house and barely visiting Gul Bahar. And it is these circumstances that make Gul Bahar leave her son and her husband when she goes away towards the end of the drama. It shows us how even though she was not involved in the most respectable of professions she cannot bear the fact that her husbands stops respecting her even after he had accepted her for what she was.
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