Jo Bichar Gaye - An Epic Drama that Gives a Great Insight as How and Why East Pakistan Became the Bangaldesh!

Jo Bichar Gaye - Epic Drama Over Fall of Dhaka

Jo Bichar Gaye, a GEO television network presentation that is directed by an ace director named Haissam Hussain has created a buzz among the Pakistani audience, and across borders as it was based on a real historical tragedy of Pakistan. It also depicted so perfectly how things were boiling for long in East Pakistan, now known to the world as "Bangladesh". The perspective of the narration is from the eye of a soldier who was fighting a lost war, and there was no political will on both sides to keep East Pakistan and West Pakistan intact. But the turmoil and tragedy didn't fall on the leadership but on the general public, and on the armed forces of Pakistan.

An absolutely priceless presentation "Jo Bichar Gaye" that has dug deep into the hearts and minds of all patriotic Pakistanis. We as a generation that was born and grew after the Fall of Dhaka in 1971, see and hear for the first time that our nation had not only faced the genocide and massacre in 1947. There was another brutal episode that happened 24 years later, under the conspiracy of the same Hindutva mindset which was run by Indian forces, its agency RAW, and by their funded "Mukti Bhani", playing a homewrecker and an insane brutal mindset with all evil activities. That soldier Captain Farrukh (played by a new actor Talha Chahour), gave us an insight that normal Bangalis were peaceful and wanted to stay as Pakistanis like Sonia and her whole family. 

There were rebels like Rumi (played by Wahaj Ali) who were brainwashed by Inteligencia of East Pakistan who was in fact on the payroll of RAW. Like his professor at Dhaka University, where the eruption of violence, genocide, and separatist movement started. There was a gorilla war that was going on inside Dhaka city, and across all East Pakistan. The ruthless leader of the Bengal side as well as of West Pakistan knew the consequences but their personal gains were much more important to them instead of thinking and saving the innocent lives, rape of women, digging of alive kids, and looting on the open streets and houses of Dhaka, Chittagong, and other lands. 

The Pakistan army was divided with the separation of Bengali soldiers and officers from the fighting, and being a part of Mukti Bahni. So, there were only 30,000 soldiers who were either from West Pakistan or the ones who believed in the Ideology of Pakistan and didn't want to change their identity. The direction was flawless, the script, dialogues, and the story which is, in fact, a memoir of now captain Farrukh and then later retired as the Colonel Farrukh from Pakistan Army. The actors went over the edge in performance whether you talk about veteran actress Nadia Jamil as a mother, Maya Ali as Sonia, Wahaj Ali as Rumi, Captain Farrukh by Talha Chahaur, and the rest of the cast. 

The turmoil, chaos, uncertainty, and aloofness were shadowing each character. The vane actions and the reactions, and the lost battl3e that was surrendered on December 16, 1971, by General Niazi, when the soldiers were all set for martyrdom. Oh, it's painful to see a defeat, the misery, the loss of half of Pakistan, and the lives and properties of Muslims for the sake of an agenda of "Shonar Bangla" that never could be executed. The Bengali people didn't get a lavish and luxurious lifestyle after separation, which was induced in the young minds of  East Bengal like Rumi. So, the loss of faith and the reality had led to another bitter piece where people of Bangladesh roared the riots in 1974 and killed Sheik Mujeeb ur Rehman with his entire family except Sheikh Haseen Wajid (current prime minister of Bangladesh), and why she is alive was because she was in London at that time. 

How history and the innocent screams and prayers are answered is seen on both sides. The horrific end in Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and of Sheik Mujer n ur Rehman, and of the Indira Gandhi clan, who said after Fall of Dhaka that "we have drowned the Two-Nation Theory into the Bay of Bengal in 1971 war". But history and innocent voices are heard by Divine Reality, and then the end is really a lesson for other traitors and oppressors if someone sees it from that perspective. 

This awesome drama serial and the performance of  Wahaj Ali, May Ali, Talha Chahuar or of Nadia Jamil is an Oscar-winning one, and the director must be applauded for detailed research on the theme, and he used origin NBC and ABC video television coverage, as a proof that what was happening in East Pakistan was disturbing and heinous to the whole world. Otherwise, India and the Bangladesh governments and public could claim that it is false propaganda which it is not at all. It must be an audio-visual document that must be shown at every school, college, and the University of Pakistan for reference and telling our youth how and what tragedies fell on Pakistan due to some paid agents within our own regimes and areas. 

Jo Bichar Gaye will serve as a piece of evidence for further research and for a doctoral thesis, and it is proof of evidence against our all-time enemies. It can be a motivational force, and its repeated telecast and presentation at all local and international forums will open up a new debate as to why some countries cannot look up for the well-being of their own public, and why they try to look for political and military hegemony over other sovereign states of the region. 

I think it is the right time to give a shut-up call to all those culprits who are still producing BLA, TTP, PTM, ANP, and Jiye Sindh or MQM inside Pakistan. It is time for the Pakistani nation to stay united and do not let any third party intervene in our unity, faith, and discipline which are set goals for us to be the Father of the Nation "Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah". Hats of for "Jo Bichar Gaye's entire cast, crew, the director Hassem Hussain and for Ret. Colonel Farrukh for letting us know how we were betrayed in past, and how to safeguard us from inside and outside as well.