Desi Galaxy

Movie industry in Pakistan is nearly dead now. With the movie industry’s death there is no room and work for illiterate, incompetent, B-grade female dancers in Lollywood (Lahore based Pakistani film industry). But there is a growing market for Pakistani Mujras all over the world.

Literally a Mujra is presentation of a poem, a song or a ghazal combined with classical or semi classical musical instruments and performed by a female courtesan. But since the courtesan culture is almost dead now, Mujras now refer to cheap dances designed to penetrate sexual desire among male audiences. Organizing such Mujra in Pakistan is illegal but still somehow these dancers find organizers for their shows and arrange their performances on stage in Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province. Recently government took strict action against such mujra shows and banned the theaters organizing such events. But the Mujras has found an alternate in Digital format. Available easily every where in Pakistan.

Nargis, khushboo and Mahnoor are some popular Mujra dancers. Their Mujra videos are available not only on CDs and DVDs but also on the web. Searching for Pakistani mujra, Lahori Mujra, Multani mujra or just the mujra would take you to sites offering downloads of the mujra video clips. I don’t think that mujras could be classified as porn since in most cases there is only female performer showing her upper body parts or shaking their bodies crazily. They are funny, sexy and some people find them erotic, porn or not but they are highly popular among Pakistanis and Desi men who are always looking for hot new desi mujra.

Pakistani entertainment industry has lots of jobs in television but these performers are incompetent to grab work on TV. Also the monetory benefits are huge. Performing in a Mujra CD for 50 to 100 thousand Pakistanis Rupees is just one day long job requiring the only talent of being shameless and pert. Thats easy money for these girls who never had a chance to earn proper education. The only education they have is the training they recieved in their red light district neighborhoods like Shahi Mohalla, Hera Mandi or Ghanta Ghar of Multan to entertain male desires and get a benefit out of it.