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Statistically, we know how hard it is for women to come forth with harassment complaints against men. What is the probability of these allegations being false? Based on what drama serial
Dunk is showing us, a lot apparently. However, this dissonance from reality is why audiences are losing interest in the serial.
As
“Mein writer se kehna chahti hun ‘
Ki matlab ey is gal da?‘” [I want to ask the writer what is the point of this]
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It tells the story of a manipulative false accuser, a victim driven to suicide and a man seeking redemption.
There was controversy about television serial
Dunk before it even went on air.
When producer Fahad Mustafa declared that this serial was a tribute to victims of false accusations, many believed it was an attempt to undermine the #MeToo movement’s campaign against breaking the silence about sexual harassment.
One of the leads, Yasra Rizvi, (who plays a falsely accused professor’s wife in the drama), has also had to defend herself from accusations of hypocrisy and not being “feminist” enough for appearing in this drama after her stint in the more liberal web-series