{"id":17797,"date":"2014-07-21T06:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=17797"},"modified":"2015-12-10T06:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T11:12:28","slug":"the-burka-avenger-fighting-ignorance-with-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/the-burka-avenger-fighting-ignorance-with-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Burka Avenger\u201d: Fighting Ignorance with Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/burka-avenger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/burka-avenger.jpg\" alt=\"burka-avenger\" width=\"612\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/burka-avenger.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/burka-avenger-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/burka-avenger-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knowledge is true power and Miss Jiya, a teacher for a local school in Pakistan wields her knowledge with the ferocity of the superheroine \u201cThe Burka Avenger.\u201d In a world where heroines are sexualized, it\u2019s interesting to see that the Burka Avenger primarily clothes herself from head to toe in a burka, which allows her a stealth and grace that make her a deadly opponent; but definitely not deadly in the violent sense, but deadly in implementing non-violence and her intellect to defeat her foes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Burka Avenger\u201d is rough around the edges with sometimes stilted animation, but its purpose is bold in that it not only influences education, but education in women. Jiya is a beloved Pakistani teacher who crusades to inspire knowledge within her students, all of whom are being segregated and oppressed in some form. Jiya was given the skills of &#8220;Takht Kabaddi\u201d at a young age, trained by her father and master. Now she uses her ability to wield pens and books as weapons that stun her enemies rather than hurt them, and she doesn\u2019t need cleavage or body parts to display her power over bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Burka Avenger\u201d appears for the noble purposes of helping her students, and it becomes clear in the pilot where the show is headed. We focus mainly on a trio of kids twins Ashu and Immu, and their friend Mooli, as they travail the hardships of life and try to get an education. But the evil magician Baba Bandook, along with corrupt local politician Vadero Pajero wants to put a stop to learning and shut down the school, allowing them to keep the kids uneducated. Most of all, they want to keep the young girls from learning and picking up valuable skills, thus \u201cThe Burka Avenger\u201d becomes a symbol of hope for young girls in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Burka Avenger\u201d is definitely an amalgam of comedy, coming of age tropes, and good old fashioned super heroics, while the series sets out to encourage young viewers (especially girls) to seek education, as it can be the most effective weapon against evil. Haroon\u2019s animated series should be seen even by folks not native to the region of Pakistan, as it\u2019s a positive action adventure that influences the use intellect and enlightenment to defeat ignorance and evil. It\u2019s a positive show in a world filled with gloomy superhero fare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is true power and Miss Jiya, a teacher for a local school in Pakistan wields her knowledge with the ferocity of the superheroine \u201cThe Burka Avenger.\u201d In a world where heroines are sexualized, it\u2019s interesting to see that the Burka Avenger primarily clothes herself from head to toe in a burka, which allows her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[58,71,99,317,340,367,580,631],"class_list":["post-17797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-educational","tag-family","tag-foreign","tag-kids","tag-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17799,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17797\/revisions\/17799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}