Churails is a ten-episode long Pakistani web series. Asim Abbasi directs it. It represents saga of a feminist group to “give-back” to the concerned men of their lives. The occupying story plot, faultless cinematography, and amazing production designs makes Churails, a must watch.
The story revolves around four women, popularly known as :The Karachi Girls” Sara (Sarwat Gilani Mirza), Jugnu (Yazra Rizvi), Batool (Nimra Buchi), and Zubaida (Mehar Bano). Sticking hard to the baseline, “Every Individual is Different” all four Karachi girls have different pasts. Apart from this, they have different mentalities and thought process. The only obvious common between the four is the patriarchy, pulling them down at every step in their lives.
It was destiny and the circumstances that brought “the Karachi Girls Together”. They discover “Halal Designs” a fashion outlet that is used as a front for a spy agency, operated “by women, For women” to catch their cheating husbands red handed. All four of them soar high with their work of showing real faces of husbands and so called patriarchy.
In context to the series, considering an example of Batool, she is called Churail (witch). Because she killed her husband to save her daughter. Batool is a victim of marital rapes. She did not intend to kill her husband but that was the only thing that felt right and needed in that heated situation. Situations of the other three should not be disclosed here, go watch it to get your answers.
Brownie points to the unsung heroes of the series, the voice over artists. They hit the head on the right nail. Be it in terms of poems and razor sharp commentary on misogyny and patriarchy.
The series takes us to the places of Karachi that we would have never been able to explore otherwise because of the political drama and hatred fed in us for the neighbourhood. The show only grows up to be a thrilling suspense to decode the faces of the “Man behind evil deeds”
Churails is available to stream on Zee5.
