Fabulous not frail, Haseena’s characters were everyday people with intelligence and agency KARACHI:
Haseena Moin often complained about how the pop culture industry doesn’t celebrate women in their totality anymore. She is weak, self-indulgent, and dependent to the limit that she almost comes off as a liability on society, Moin would say. Or as the deranged prince of Denmark puts it, “Frailty, thy name is woman.”
While Hamlet would disagree with her, Haseena stood her ground and walked the talk at the same time. As she grew older and slightly restricted due to worsening health, her characters continued to walk on her behalf. And that is exactly how a legacy forms itself; slowly and organically, without having to remind you of the shadow it casts over the imagination.