PARI – A tale of glitches?

With the Pakistani cinema reviving day after day giving us movies like Punjab Nahi Jaunge, Na Maloom Afraad 2 and Yalghar, we could clearly see a shift in the film paradigm where directors are trying to experience different genres of films and not following the old school girl-meet-boy love stories.

With all this and more happening in the industry we just came across the trailer of an upcoming Pakistani film ‘Pari’ which to me was pretty okay to have a horror film after quite a few time when Siyaah and AksBand were released but were not up to the mark.

While watching the trailer I saw a character which resembles The Conjuring's Nun and suddelny all my hopes with the film goes in vein , another thing what confuses me is that when PARI is shown possessesd ,what’s with the nun kind of character at the end who looks like the Conjuring’s character!?  And a child with a short hair, who's she ? Is it that 3 ghosts in one film? Seriously? Bhai! Focus konsay bhoot pay karna hai??

The Nun controversy was later denied by the director stating:
“Our character does not have any resemblance with the Conjuring’s character, it’s just that our character has been shown a religious women hence the scarf she is wearing! And she saw herself in the avatar of a bad soul! The look has been created using the prosthetic make up which is being used first time in Pakistan”!

Well that’s an achievement and we have to give it to the team for that! But Wait! What? The character who is actually Pari’s mother is a religious woman? Baji ! sleeveless aur bina dupatta religious ? And even if we ignore that too, where does the mama ghost come from all of a sudden?

Are we through an idea which portrays that your inner beliefs matter more than what you wear and that's what the director has been telling us through Mehwish's character ? This is something we have never came across before in any film or so and for this we surely have to watch the film which is releasing this Halloween.

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RABBIYA YOUNUS