The camera makes everyone a tourist in reality of own making. By Prof dr Sohail Ansari.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?” ― Johnny Rich, The Human Script Ibn ‘Umar said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took me by the shoulder and said, ‘Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveller on the road.”

Compelling realities and pre-packaged messages. By Prof dr Sohail Ansari

·       The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag). Indian movies contrive ‘compelling realities’. Recipients (tourists) imbibe pre-packaged messages to know other people’s (Pakistanis) reality. Movies inspire conviction for India on the side of the angels and cause lowered self-respect and self-image among the people of Pakistan.

Irreverent humor trivializes sacred.  ‘Tere Bin Laden is a tongue-in-cheek comedy’. Nothing can be more sacrilegious than the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, and ridicule in treating venerated.

Exercise:         students are to analyze underlying reasons for banning Bollywood movies In Pakistan.

Students are to write plot of a movie that is supposed to be banned in India. Or as Susan Sontag said: ‘The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions’ so write a plot and create answers those destroy the questions about the Pakistan/islam.