Question of Life and Death..

Rape is common news of Bangladeshi newspapers. We often see rape in the front page as highlighted news. Sometimes newspapers show picture of a raped women. When a woman raped she already faces the physical harassment, but when the picture and the details is shown to the all people through newspapers the woman harasses for the second time by other people. A newspaper provides all the minor details about the incident.

When I was in grade 12, I read a newspapers article. (Sorry that I forget the name of the news paper) The article was written about a raped school girl who committed suicide a few days ago. The girl committed suicide because of unnecessary publication of news paper. The girl was raped few days ago, and a reporter went there and took her and her families interview then published it with her picture. After that the girl could not go outside, because everyone look at her with a criticize eyes. She felt shy to go outside. She stopped to study and the most sadness that her boyfriend refused her to marry. Therefore she committed suicide.

It is important to let people know about the incident of rape, but sometimes it could be a question of life and death.

Dress Up of Male and Female actor…

Bangladesh is a Muslim country, so we have some conservation. Our traditional dresses are shari and Pazaima-kameez for women. But now some movies represent women very nakedly which is very embarrassing for our culture. But they always represent men with very well dressed. My question is when men act in films with covering whole body, why should female act nakedly? Therefore, I would like to suggest that instead of destruct our tradition they should represent our traditional dress.

Women and Products

Now-a-days women become a product in the market of advertisement. Media represents women like a product with other products. Just an example of those advertisements is “Tomar oi reshmi kalo chul dekhe pagol ami hoboito (I will be crazy for your hair)” This is a part of a lyric of an advertisement of coconut oil.  In the advertisement the male model sings the song to see the hair of the female model. Although the focus of the advertisement is on the quality of oil, the audiences focus on the beauty of the model. Sometimes people encourage buying the products for the model. These kinds of advertisement represent women as like as a product to the audience.           

“Tumi haslei jeno ak Phali chand na hassle purnima sundrytoma (If you laugh it seems like half moon and if you don’t laugh it seems full moon my dear)” It’s an advertisement’s lyric of soap. The purpose of the director is to increase the popularity of the product. The products get popularity and with that the model also becomes a product to the audiences. When people buy the soap they also buy the picture of the model on the packet of the soap. These two advertisements are just examples. There are many advertisements like those.