{"id":21515,"date":"2020-08-08T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/aug\/08\/lesbian-lovers-and-a-boxer-in-a-burqa-a-new-look-for-pakistani-tv"},"modified":"2020-08-08T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T13:15:09","slug":"lesbian-lovers-and-a-boxer-in-a-burqa-a-new-look-for-pakistani-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21515","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian lovers and a boxer in a burqa: a new look for Pakistani TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British-Pakistani filmmaker tackles sexual stereotypes in groundbreaking new drama series, Churails <\/p>\n<p>A burqa-clad boxer, a high-society wedding planner and an ex-convict may sound more like the wish list for the next series of <em>Big Brother<\/em>, but they are just some of the characters in a groundbreaking new Pakistani drama show.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u201cLock, Stock and Four Smoking Burqas\u201d, the series, called <em>Churails<\/em>, is the first made in Pakistan to feature a lesbian relationship. It was written and directed by British Pakistani film-maker Asim Abbasi, and tells the story of four women who start a detective agency to catch out cheating husbands, behind the facade of a burqa boutique.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/aug\/08\/lesbian-lovers-and-a-boxer-in-a-burqa-a-new-look-for-pakistani-tv\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British-Pakistani filmmaker tackles sexual stereotypes in groundbreaking new drama series, Churails A burqa-clad boxer, a high-society wedding planner and an ex-convict may sound more like the wish list for the next series of Big Brother, but they are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,60,61,520,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-television","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21516,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515\/revisions\/21516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}