Male dominating power in Samra Bukhari play Gul-e-Rana

This study pinpoints the male-dominating power in the Samra Bukhari play Gul-e- Rana. According to the patriarchal theory, the state is nothing but an expansion of the family. It elaborates on the relationship of husband and wife which converts into domination. The main character of this drama who is Adeel show’s her mastering authority over her wife’s rights. When he had complete control over the life of Gul-e-Rana and consider herself his slave. The scrutiny describes the dominance of the husband practically in Samra Bukhari's drama Gul e Rana

Samra Bukhari is a great writer of love, bitter reality, and emotions who write with her pure heart and soul (sumiya, 2022). She is the greatest well-known Pakistani novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. In Pakistan, since 2011 she work for a satellite television network. She writes many series and she is also written for digest and Urdu journals. Her victorious television series are Kis Din Mera Viyah Howay Ga (2011), Gohar-e-Nayab (2013), Gul-e-Rana (2015), Ghar Titli Ka Par (2017), Bholi Bano (2017), Silsilay (2018), Paristan (2022) (Wikipedia, 2022).

Samra Bukhari tells about an adolescent girl Rana (Sajal Ali) is afflicted with a stroke of bad luck to lose her loving father too soon. She left with her mother and childlike sister who start living at her uncle’s home. Unlike Adeel's father's views were quite varied from theirs regarding women. As he set foot in her life all her aims and the study were destroyed. Adeel (Feroze Khan) has more two cousins who would do anything he asks just to get his surveillance but Rana was contrasting with them, she has her small world as she wanted more from life, she wanted her own identity. One day just to satisfy his male ego Adeel carries off Rana and pressurized her at gunpoint they get married. He wanted a faithful wife but doesn’t want to change himself and his misconduct. The silent exploits of Gul-e-Rana were impermissible to the cruelty against her by Adeel. She could have done so many things plus at least having complained to her mom or his dad who is a very caring person to her. She does not utter a single word on many occasions (News Pakistan, 2022).

Research Question

i. Why do we see male dominance in almost every Pakistani drama?

ii. How the lavish things affect our entire life?

Literature Review

Research Gap

Samra Bukhari (2015) has discussed Gul-E-Rana old historicist and this drama is also based on the novel but we explore that this serial is grounded on the patriarchal depiction of society in Pakistan mostly in villages, where the mentality of people is restricted. And foist to women that they have to follow the rules of their husbands and you can’t exceed their limits which is the legislative issue of woman's rights. Instead of advancing people are still restricted regarding this issue. As the character of Kamal Ahmed, we can see clearly how he supports his son's sometimes impermissible habits and forces Rana that accept her husband's habits. This shows the impotence of Rana.

The study fills the gap by talking about the relationship between husband and wife in our society. And how the dominating power of a man repressed the rights of women by showing their power. This study also tells how the lavish lifestyle of our society makes men cruel, harsh, fearless, and careless of their partners and society.

Methodology

Theoretical Framework

This study peaks out the concept to commodify females by men. We can easily manifest the framework of this topic by way of the play Gul-e-Rana. The objective of this study is to highlight the misogyny of males in society. Gul e Rana Hasti Ke Ahang is written by Samra Bukhari. Gul e Rana Hasti Ke Ahang is a Social Sentimental story, a famous Urdu Novel Online Perusing at Urdu Novel Collection. Samra Bukhari is a setup author and composes frequently. The novel Gul e Rana Hasti Ke Ahang Total Novel by Samra Bukhari also Samra Bukhari could be a Prevalent Urdu novel essayist who composed Numerous famous Urdu books. Samra Bukhari is for the most part prevalent among female readers, The Samra Bukhari stories are distributed in a verbose arrangement each month at different stages and on the Samra Bukhari, Facebook pages are inevitably discharged as isolated novels. We trust Urdu Novel Collection Peruses will like this wonderful Gul e Rana Hasti Ke Ahang Urdu Novel and grant their criticism (Bukhari, 2022).

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• Impoverished of this study is to highlight treating women as their property. The process of cultural commodification in society has both positive and negative impacts.

• In social orders which are influenced by the consumer culture, like Pakistani society within the chosen novels, emotions and sentiments are commodified, bundled, and sold for material benefits (Irum & Yaqoob, 2018).

• In this way, our pondering of the novel explicates that the belief system of consumer culture has caught individuals into a horrendous cycle of materialism and commodified human connections and values.

Textual Analysis

This portion of the study analyzes the text of the Samra Bukhari play Gul-e-Rana to explore the relationship between men and women by which we can examine the husband and wife relationship. And the men think that the women are their personal property. Furthermore, it intends to explain how the lavish lifestyle of a person can change the behavior and attitude of a person toward the people of society and how he sees others with contempt eyes. And In addition that the people of the society and poor family members get threat, fear them, obey them and treat them like God.

One of the highlighted points is where Adeel shows his dominance on the Rana. When Adeel foists Rana to reject his cousin's proposal and merry with her then she asks why I should marry you then Adeel says “there can be no one else in your heart except me that’s why I want it. I will decide that”. In this line of the drama, we see Adeel trying to repress Rana's right to marriage. At another point, he says to Rana that “who said that you have the right to an opinion?” these lines show that In society if a man likes any woman he showed him that I’ll tell what is good or bad for you, I’ll decide that you can marry with me. He starts assuming that she is only his and that whatever she wants he will tell him to do or not to do.

Another point is where Adeel again shows her dominance over Rana in the play. When he says to Rana “when I like something, no one else can’t think about it” these lines also show the power of men on women. When In society if a man like someone and wants him in his life rather the woman doesn’t like her, the man starts showing her dominance over the woman by telling her that you are mine only and that no one else can love her whether he is good for him. There is another line where Adeel is treating Rana as their personal property. When he says “Gul-e-Rana you probably forget that women are a man’s property. This line shows that the woman can’t do anything by herself. If she wants to do something she needs to get permission from her man guardian. But now this is an advance and modern time and women know their rights and they can fight for their rights to live their life on their own.

There is another prominent point of lavishness in the Samra Bukhari play Gul-e-Rana when the employee of Adeel Company Tanya complained about his boss Adeel to Rana that he is cheating on him. He makes a promise to get married but now he is running away then Adeel comes into the room and starts fighting with her employee and Rana he says to both of the girls that “let me see what you two can do to me” these lines show that he has no fear of what he is doing whether its good or not. The lavish lifestyle of his life spoils his character, behavior, and his attitude. There is another line when he is showing his attitude “don’t move from here sit quit there” this behavior was show how he treats his poor cousin who is always in getting feared whenever he saw her rich cousin. The context of the drama is all about men and women's relationship and women’s rights which is repressed by men and the luxurious lifestyle make man fearless and disrespectful.