Momina Mustehsan and The Chaiwala

Momina Mustehsan and The Chaiwala

Introduction

Over the previous couple of days, a chaiwala from Mardan, Arshad Khan, struck social media users throughout South Asia by storm. The images (and videos, in Mustehsan’s case) of both these individuals have in fact been shared typically and even helped Khan land a modelling contract. It is no surprise that Khan, with his blue eyes and affordable skin, is at the leading edge of this social media fad, much like Mustehsan, with her affordable skin tone, was appreciated for her looks. By decreasing to refer to him by his name, we have in fact enhanced the principle that Arshad Khan is who he is, based on how he looks. Over the previous number of days, a chaiwala from Mardan, Arshad Khan, struck social networks users throughout South Asia by storm. The images (and videos, in Mustehsan’s case) of both these individuals have really been shared typically as well as helped Khan land a modelling contract.

 

 

The discount of sensible skin and coloured eyes, and the impressive status of those who speak English is by no recommends a new phenomenon in Pakistan, or throughout South Asia for that matter. One simply needs to rely on the great deals of signboards promoting trademark name that ensure fairer skin, or furthermore, one can planning to families selecting possible mates, ideally of fairer colour, for their soon-to-be-married kids. In addition, the principle of English-speakers going beyond to the rest of society is very prevalent and can also be experienced throughout our society.

And although there is no shortage of people with affordable skin throughout Pakistan, it is the darkness or rather the colonial past on which our society is established that has really produced the undesirable understandings that are held by people worrying dark-skinned individuals. Specific communities in Pakistan are arranged and examined based upon their darker skin colour, such as the Christian area of Pakistan, or members of the Mohajir community, to name a few. It is sickening to see that our society has really developed on this principle that being fairer is far better, and this superficiality is so developed within how we see one another, almost as if we are the colonisers in reverse.

This, undoubtedly, brings me to the works of Edward Said, the developer of postcolonial research study studies. Said completely spoke about the sexualisation of the Orient in his works, by expanding upon ideas such as the concentrate on the appeal and objectification of, people of the Orient (similarly called the East) by Western colonisers, throughout art, motion picture and other kinds of media. Paradoxically, in some twisted and ill approach, the residues of the colonial past that dominate in our society today expose a near-complete turn-around of this formerly pointed out sexualisation, which can be observed and experienced throughout Pakistan and the wider location, where the fairer you are, the most likely you are to be put on a pedestal that epitomises a fake requirement of appeal.

It is not a surprise that Khan, with his blue eyes and affordable skin, is at the leading edge of this social networks fad, similar to Mustehsan, with her sensible skin, was appreciated for her looks. By decreasing to describe him by his name, we have really improved the principle that Arshad Khan is who he is, based upon how he looks.

Would Mustehsan have been considered as just another singer on Coke Studio? Would Arshad Khan have gotten a modelling arrangement?

It is by no suggests a hard guess, relating to precisely what the outcomes would have been. For one, we more than likely never ever would have ended up being conscious of Arshad Khan – the chaiwala, and the efficiency of Afreen on Coke Studio, would not have really gotten as great deals of views on YouTube as it did. Regretfully, it is far too late for either of those 2 things to happen. A minimum of in this scenario, we can specify that Pakistanis do not discriminate based upon class, as Mustehsan and Khan, both of whom stemmed from significantly numerous backgrounds, got a similar reception on socials media from our society. It is no surprise that Khan, with his blue eyes and sensible skin, is at the leading edge of this social media trend, much like Mustehsan, with her affordable skin tone, was appreciated for her looks. By decreasing to refer to him by his name, we have really reinforced the principle that Arshad Khan is who he is, based on how he looks.