Subtitles(Educate me)

Subtitle-EDUCATE ME..

Maham: Eman, I am cutting my hair so I can look like my brother, and go to school like him. Let me cut your hair too so everyone thinks that we are boys.

-Urdu poetry translation in English:

Kitni girhein kholi hain mene, kitni girhein ab baqi hain.

How many knots have I untied, how many still remain?

Ab chilnay lage hain hath paun, aur kitni khrashain ubhri hain

Now my hands and feet have begun to develop scratches, and so many bruises have surfaced

Kitni girhein kholi hain mene, kitni rassiyan utari hain

Since I started untying the knots, and freed myself of so many ropes.

Interviews:

Question: Did you ever go to school?

Minahil: When I was young I used to go to school, but when I grew up my father said that in villages when girls grow up they don’t go to school. I always wanted to have education specially now when I see girls in the city going to school, I want to join them too.

Aisha: I asked my father to send me to school but he refused and said that he did not have enough money to afford my education.

Question: What did you want to be?

Minahil: I wanted to be a doctor or anything else but I never wanted to depend on others.

Aisha: I wanted to be a teacher.

Minahil: My parents let my brothers go to school and sent me here to work and earn for living. I never got a chance to stand on my feet.