Interestingly, from simply being a fracas between two lovers the issue has assumed a religious angle too despite the fact both the lovers belong to a particular community. The question being raised now is if lovers could be ostracized from society as they enjoyed a live-in relationship, a concept borrowed from western culture and quite unheard of in our society till a decade back. Or, they should be punished as per Shariat.
Till a few days back, Shehrish’s was hardly a name in Bhopal. She might have been known to a few in her locality but hardly was a name known to Bhopalites. She shot to limelight on Bhopal horizon the moment people of Bhopal saw her being bashed by her ex-fiance Jehangir, also a Bhopal youth. However, the TV footage showed the youth also being roughed up by the TV actress’ relatives.
For the TV news-channels, always in contest for a good TRP and having shot the video footage or arranged the same the episode was a perfect masala kind of show to dish out to their viewers. What could have been a better show than the one based on a TV actress in tears in real life? But there was more sensational part of the story which was yet to come and it had the potential of being aired at the national level by the TV channels.
Faced with charges of bashing up his ex-girlfriend by his ex-girlfriend herself and her parents the boy released some video footage shot with his mobile camera and also pictures to the news channels which certainly showed the actress in a poor light. She was seen in the video shot saying that she was just married and that she was Mrs Jehangir.
The actress has alleged that the video shoot was done at a knife point. She has dumped the boy as a ‘dirty part of her past life’ and announced proudly that she was looking for her perfect match while singing the hindi song- kahin karta hoga wo mera intezar…..However, her allegations against the youth appeared to be not holding much substance given the mood she was in, in the pictures and video clippings.
But anyway, given the wide coverage and telecast of the entire episode she has got the benefit. As she claimed her role in the TV serial Pratigya has been extended now and that she has got some offers from others too.
Muslim community is divided into two groups- an organization denouncing the act of the duo and ostracizing them from society as they had live-in relationship barred completely in Islam but certain others underlining the provision of punishment for the duo as per Shariat and not agreeing to the Fatwa for ostracizing them. However, there is common view between the two groups that the duo breached the tenets of Islam. Let's see what comes next in the series.....
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