Students' documentaries, films displayed at NCA

LAHORE: Documentaries and films produced by the students of the National College of Arts (NCA) were being displayed during the second day of their thesis display.

Three top documentaries produced by Ravail Warraich, Alina Ali and Ammar Aziz were displayed in the NCA auditorium on the second day of the event. Ravail’s documentary titled ‘Maan Boli’ was about the history of Punjabi language and how it became a target of the British and other establishments due to the fierce resistance of Punjabis.

The student exposed the way Pakistani establishment was targeting this language to the extent that apart from children from the other provinces, even the children of Punjab were deprived of the right to get education in their mother tongue despite the internationally accepted fact that it was easier for the kids to learn by their mother tongues.

Ravail and Alina told that the three documentaries were given distinction by the jurists on equal basis for being the best out of the total stuff created by the students. They said that the grading system of the school was not based on numbers and all three documentaries remained on top of the total content.

Ravail said that it was a sorry state of affair where a member of our assembly could not speak in his mother tongue during the assembly session and he would have to take prior permission to do so. He said that the establishment and elites also conspired by abandoning Punjabi and giving an impression that it was a language of the lower classes, in order to create a division.