"VULGARITY" is a DIFFICULT and often HYPOCRITICAL WORD. "THE VULGARITY" is being used to DESCRIBE PAKISTAN'S booming 'MUJRA' ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. But WHO IS TO 'BLAME' for the "VULGARITY", is it THE AUDIENCE, or THE DANCERS? An INTERESTING INTERVIEW with a very SWEATY PAKISTANI TOP PUNJABI MUJRA DANCER: NIDA CHAUDRY between ATHLETIC DANCES at a WEDDING HANDLED the QUESTION of "VULGARITY", if there is any, in a SKILFUL WAY. A MAN with a MICROPHONE in the MIDST of a LIVELY WEDDING CROWD in LAHORE, ASKED DANCER NIDA CHAUDRY: "Nida, does your dance not incite public decency?". NIDA OPENED her ARMS to the WEDDING PARTY and said, "We are all of us, Muslims here together. I would rather perform a simple folk dance at a wedding. But these people want more and they pay a lot of money for more. As Sufis, we bring Peace and Joy to the World so we give people what they want. I would not choose to dance in this way in room full of strangers". [The video has been DISAPPEARED on YOUTUBE, unfortunately].
NIDA CHAUDRY was like NABILA EBIED in the EGYPTIAN NOVEL/FILM: 'The Belly Dancer and The Politician [which one is the more corrupt]?' looking at WHERE the CORRUPTION LIES in MUJRA that is called "VULGAR" by some quarters. Is the DANCER CORRUPT, or is it THE AUDIENCE that is CORRUPT?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwC8QhZEfw
There are always discussions on MUJRA and "VULGARITY" in PAKISTAN, and the previously BOOMING PAKISTANI CINEMA that HOSTED the SAME ACTRESSES in the same DANCE MOVES.
The ADVANCE of WESTERN CULTURE, INTERNET and the OPPOSITE RISE of BRITISH-CREATED EXTREME SAUDI WAHABISM are TEARING the PAKISTANIS from TWO SIDES. The WESTERNISM and the FOREIGN STYLE 'ISLAM' are both DESTROYING the ORIGINAL CULTURE and FAITH of PAKISTANIS.
An INTERESTING COMMENT from a DISCUSSION BOARD on "THE VULGARITY"
"When you forcefully shove religion in everything then it have consequences. Earlier it was family who used to sing traditional songs and dance to celebrate the occasion, as it was all the family, relatives and friends/neighbors who were considered part of family so everything was in respectable limits. Then came the mullah brigade with fatwas of haram and segregation, Mujra and drinking has become part of male gathering in many parts, maybe you haven't attended enough marriages otherwise you would knew that it's not limited central or South."
From thread: 'Vulgar Mujra Cultre'
Many of the 'disgusted' comments are from the MIDDLE CLASSES who may be having more problem with the COUNTRYSIDE and PUNJABI LANGUAGE and CULTURE and their DESIRE to be 'WESTERN', then to do with "VULGARITY" per se. So this needs to be taken into account. Also the same HIGHER CLASSES are INVOLVED in CORRUPTION and TREATING LOWER CLASS FELLOWS BADLY. So we need a context for these seemingly 'perfect' and 'pious' people too and their agendas.
We are DEALING with COLOURFUL PUNJABI CULTURE which has always been RICH and ABUNDANT from BIG HARVESTS. So LOUD and COLOURFUL JOY of LIFE is in the MUJRA INDUSTRY.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN with MUJRA, "THE VULGARITY", PAKISTANI STAGE SHOWS, CINEMA and ONLINE MUJRA, we don't know.
There is a lot of TALK about MUJRA NOT BEING PART of PAKISTAN CULTURE. But the DANCE and STYLING DO COME FROM PAKISTANI TRAVELLING PUNJABI THEATRE of the PAST. "THE VULGARITY" does CORRESPOND with WESTERNISING INFLUENCE and WESTERN DESTABILISING EXTREME WAHABISM from SAUDI ARABIA, pushing a FOREIGN 'ISLAM' that is EXTREME and DIFFICULT to FOLLOW. So PAKISTAN'S PREVIOUS SUFI ISLAM is being DESTABILISED by WESTERNISM and WESTERN WAHABISM, both DESTROY CULTURE and ART. So we have to be CAREFUL about "THE VULGARITY" which may CHANGE the CULTURE of PAKISTAN to something PURITANICAL, which it has NEVER BEEN, or to something WESTERN, or to MORE EXTREMES of "THE VULGARITY" as the PRESSURE on CULTURE from the EXTERNAL FORCES CONFUSES the PUBLIC.
INDIA'S FILM INDUSTRY is also SUFFERING from "THE VULGARITY" that is CAUSING DOMESTIC and FOREIGN AUDIENCES to MOVE AWAY from the CURRENT CINEMA. The WEST is SUFFERING from "THE VULGARITY" in POP VIDEOS and HOLLYWOOD. THE WORLD is also having INNOCENCE TAKEN by PORNOGRAPHY.
