{"id":12680,"date":"2025-07-05T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12680"},"modified":"2025-07-05T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:05:24","slug":"khaled-anam-laments-lost-sanctity-of-muharram-lambasts-vulgar-commercial-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12680","title":{"rendered":"Khaled Anam laments lost sanctity of Muharram, lambasts ‘vulgar’ commercial videos"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the tragedy of Karbala being commemorated throughout the first ten days of Muharram throughout the country, veteran actor Khaled Anam has gone on record to rue the fact that respect for the grief during the month has morphed into a vulgar, commercial event, shifting away from tradition and losing all sanctity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen finances enter the equation, things take a different direction,\u201d observed the actor-singer during a recent appearance on the Off The School podcast. \u201cFor example, people say that songs are haram – which is fine, I respect that – but [in Muharram] they have no qualms about adding a beat with a drum machine to a \u2018naat\u2019 or noha. These are not tunes!\u201d<\/p>\n

Nothing that elders in the industry are no longer interested in educating their juniors, and that juniors do not wish to be schooled by anyone to begin with (\u201cThey just say that they are earning millions on YouTube and that they know better\u201d), Anam continued, \u201cI see artists filming so many videos with sand on the ground and fire in the background to commemorate Karbala – but this is not a film!\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Anam, the entertainment industry employed a different approach to Muharram before this race for commercialisation took root. \u201cBack in the day, PTV transmissions would air programmes that reflected an air of solemnity and respect with people dressed in black sherwanis,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n

The actor remains convinced that this such respectful observation for Muharram traditions is now a lost art. \u201cLamentation has become commercialised,\u201d he stated. Letting his anger seep through, he went on to add, \u201cKarbala and Muharram are both now an event like any other. Just like we have Ramazan transmissions, there are now Muharram transmissions, and you have to release this album or that album just for the occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anam went on to note that record companies now dictate which \u2018naats\u2019 are recorded – in his view, something that should never have become mainstream.<\/p>\n

Taking aim at artists who make an effort to look good as they film videos to mark the occasion, the screen veteran added witheringly, waving his arms to make illustrated point, \u201cYou cannot get your hair blow-dried and a have face full of makeup as you recite these nohas with exaggerated gestures!\u201d<\/p>\n

Summing up his aversion to the modern day approach to Muharram, Anam concluded, \u201cPeople need to make the occasion attractive without losing the message. The sanctity has been lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With the tragedy of Karbala being commemorated throughout the first ten days of Muharram throughout the country, veteran actor Khaled Anam has gone on record to rue the fact that respect for the grief during the month has morphed into a vulgar, commercial event, shifting away from tradition and losing all sanctity. \u201cWhen finances enter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}