{"id":50221,"date":"2022-11-15T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/15\/alina-khan-joyland-pakistani-trans-film-ban"},"modified":"2022-11-15T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T05:00:13","slug":"its-not-against-islam-pakistani-trans-actor-tells-of-deep-sadness-over-film-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50221","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not against Islam\u2019: Pakistani trans actor tells of deep sadness over film ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Alina Khan, star of award-winning Joyland, speaks out as the movie\u2019s licence for domestic release is revoked, putting its Oscar contention in doubt<\/p>\n<p>A transgender star of an award-winning Pakistan film that depicts a love affair between a man and a trans women has said she is very sad at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/14\/joyland-pakistan-bans-oscar-contender-film-about-trans-love-affair\">government\u2019s decision to ban the film<\/a> and hopes it will be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Alina Khan, who stars in Joyland, the first major Pakistani film to feature a trans actor in a lead role, said: \u201cI\u2019ve been very sad. There\u2019s nothing against Islam [in the film] and I don\u2019t understand how Islam can get endangered by mere films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/15\/alina-khan-joyland-pakistani-trans-film-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Alina Khan, star of award-winning Joyland, speaks out as the movie\u2019s licence for domestic release is revoked, putting its Oscar contention in doubtA transgender star of an award-winning Pakistan film that depicts a love affair between a man &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3292,"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":[71,69,59,2729,60,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","category-global-development","category-lgbtq-rights","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/50221","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\/3292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50246,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50221\/revisions\/50246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}