Instep Today
Sun, 02, 21
Yasra Rizvi has been acting for almost a decade now but while she’s delivered all sorts of characters in her career, it’s the most problematic that people have chosen to define her by. Balwant Kaur in Manto’s ‘Thanda Gosht’; a woman who kills her husband in cold blood, with his own weapon. The alcohol dependent Jugnoo of Churails, who abuses substance, people and herself as her internal defense mechanism. Saira from Dunk is hardly problematic but the fact that Yasra signed up for a role defending an alleged sexual harasser didn’t go down well with women who felt she had become flag-bearer for feminism after Churails; ‘sell-out’ is what they called her. And then finally, on TV as Sawera from Kashf Foundation’s Dil Na Umeed Toh Nahin, a woman caught in the web of sex trafficking in Pakistan.