Kabul: In a grimy Kabul street, the director gives the order to roll the cameras, and filming starts on a remarkable new TV drama that boldly challenges taboos about women in conservative Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Shereen, the star, enters the scene and buys a few things from street vendors when suddenly her husband, a possessive and brutal man, grabs her.<\/p>\n
But tough, no-nonsense Shereen won`t back down and a row ensues.<\/p>\n
“Shereen`s Law”, due to be aired on Afghan TV before the end of the year, tells the story of a 36-year-old woman who brings up three children on her own while forging a career as a clerk at a court in Kabul.<\/p>\n
Such a character is already shocking in an overwhelmingly patriarchal society where most women are confined to lives of menial domesticity.<\/p>\n
But the show deliberately ramps up the impact. Shereen fights corruption, harassment, and rape, and tries to divorce her husband, whom she wed in a forced marriage.<\/p>\n
More than 13 years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan remains deeply wedded to traditional customs and its airwaves have never hosted anything like this before.<\/p>\n
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Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/south-asia\/afghanistans-daring-taboo-smashing-feminist-tv-drama_1572331.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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