An Actor or a Helpless Father?
Many people of my generation [I mean 70s/late 70s] would be used to watch a Lahore station serial Khwaja and Sons which was very popular in 80s. The main cast of the play that is Khwaja Sahab was Ali Ejaz, a famous filmy then TV actor from Lahore station. The other main characters were Jawad, the son of Khwaja Shab and the girl I forget her character name but it was Samina Khalid. The unique dialogue delivery style of Ali Ejaz and Jawad Ji made that drama serial very popular at that time.
I don’t remember I have ever watched any other drama in which Ali Ejaz performed. I always remembered him as a Khwaja Sahab of Khwaja and Sons. Last night I was just doing nothing so sat in front of TV and start playing with remote control, I was stopped by a program on ATV channel in which Ali Ejaz was being interviewed. I had no intention to watch the program but I joined the show when he was discussing his lonely personal life and the behavior of his son and bahu[daughter in law]. The son of Ali Ejaz left his father all alone and shifted somewhere else. As usual the main reason was Bahu who didn’t want to stay with him. Ali Ejaz was telling that he also did a drama in which he played the role which life is forcing him to play in reality as well. I had completely forgotten that I was watching an interview of an actor. At that time he was sounding more a helpless father and grandpa than an actor. His bahu don’t allow him to meet his pota[ grandson] who I think is a young kid. Ali lives all alone in his home and keeps missing his beloved grandson. He was weeping and missing him. The interviewer was a lady and there was another gentleman who I think was either his fan or one of his office colleague because the location was Ali’s work place. The other gentleman told that his bahu’s or his son’s home was in route so that gentleman took a long route to Ali’s home because Ali then starts insisting to meet his grandson. Ah, when the lady asked Ali about his current passion, he simply replied, Mera Pota then he started crying. It certainly brought tears in my eyes too. How helpless he was, how cruel was that lady and his son. Parents are parents. Ali tried to access MD of PTV for the job of his same son who had left him. Ali already distributed all of his money to child(ren) and then the lady asked why did he do that, he simply replied, ‘Haq dar ko Haq pochadia’. I don’t understand how one gets so cruel for a ‘wife’ that he forgets everything done by parents? If one gets so cruel then I am really not interested to get married but is it right to blame that woman only? The guy, son of Ali was so impotent that he couldn’t say anything to protect his father. How come these people forget that they also have to face this phase of life? It’s weird which I can’t digest at all.
Ali then criticized the insensitive attitude of our TV and Film media which is not new for me. When we didn’t care of Mehdi Hasan and he had to go India for treatment then we shouldn’t expect something good for others. He complained that he was not being given any role in TV dramas by government and private channels.
We are the nation who is always thankless towards our great people. Here people don’t hesitate to curse Jinnah, the founder of the nation, Qadeer Khan, the next man after Jinnah who gave new life to this country. This attitude of us will lead us to a great disaster which we people can’t afford anyway. May God remove all such thankless elements from Pakistani soil, Ameen.
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