The Indignity

Based on a short story by the famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, of the same title, Hatak (Indignity) tells the story of Peeno a prostitute in her mid-thirties. Defying the bitter experiences and the harsh surroundings that life has dealt her, the fire of Peeno’s feminine warmth refuses to extinguish. Her potent feminine energy does not allow her to occupy the analytical mind for long, it immediately pushes her in the body and grounds her in the emotional realm. Her insatiable capacity to give love makes her vulnerable before egotistical men who bewitch her through their honeyed words, until one eventful night she is meted out extreme humiliation by one of her potential clients. Now consumed by fierce vindictive rage she sets out to tame the masculine. She will refuse to play the game anymore, expose her swindling lover and bring him to his knees. But will her short-lived conquest of a world destitute in humanity take away her inner sadness?