With 2 women-centric Pakistani movies coming out back-to-back within the span of a month, it's hard not to compare the 2. Although "Cake" has been hailed as a realistic portrayal of the modern Pakistani woman, it's actually "Motorcycle girl" that most Pakistani youth will relate to. Where Cake" shows women smoking, dancing at parties, egging neighborhood houses and getting in physical altercations with one another (a.k.a cat-fights) and deems it "Women Empowerment", it's actually "Motorcycle Girl" that depicts the true nature of the Pakistani society, and how the average woman has to deal with her parents, her relatives, her co-workers and just society, in general, trying to cut the legs out from under her, all in the name of "Log Kiya Khen Ge?"
The story is a simple and straight-forward one. It's about a middle-class girl named Zenith, whose father died when she was a baby and she's seen stuck in a job where she's underappreciated, in order to save enough money to put herself through college. All the while, she is seen reminiscing about her father and his unfulfilled fantasy of riding up to Khunjerab Pass between the Pak-China border.
This is the true story of how Zenith Irfan fulfills that unaccomplished dream of her father's despite her daadi, her fiance and, and her boss constantly drilling in to her mind "K Log Kia kahen Ge?"
This is the story of true Women Empowerment. I believe that all Pakistanis and patriarchal society afflicted countries should have their daughters watch this film.
