Story of Hameed Sakhizada, appearing in the third season of the Afghan reality show Afghan Star. From the first broadcast a figure of inspiration and hope to the countrys women (and many men), Hussainzada sang Persian pop songs with a shimmy and a smile, and when she was eliminated in the first round, she defiantly danced her way through her final number and let her head covering slip to her shoulders. I think this is the most important thing about Setara Hussainzada, because it shows us how much the government thought about him. Setara Hussainzada, a former Afghan Star participant, was devastated when her fellow countrymen called her a woman of "loose" character for dancing and singing showing her hair. Unrated. Three years later, Afghan Star, the country's equivalent of Pop Idol, was launched by Tolo TV, Afghanistan's leading independent television company. Her life in danger, the young singer is forced into hiding, with the rest of the country still reeling from her performance. Setara Hussainzada was eliminated first, and while on air she danced without a hijab, receiving death threats as a result. Afghan Star. Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the Afghan Star movie on Quotes.net . It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.2 and a MetaScore of 78. The comments section is here to provide a platform for civil dialogue on the issues we face together as a local community. However, I think the film falls down in its emotional impact mostly due to Markings heavy reliancewhich may have been inevitableon the technically crude footage of the actual show. It was her last performance on the show. [1] Contents 1 Format Thumbnail: Youtube Title - Dari: Man in the street: [after Setara adds dance moves to her song] She should be killed. But only a few years out of Taliban-era prohibition of music, television and dance, the unapologetic spectacle of celebrity culture in a format like Afghan Star tests the limits of how far this society is willing to go, revealing cracks in the surface of the "new" Afghanistan. Music and signing, an unacceptable custom in Afghanistan, seems to be the only means to bring some peace and harmony on weekend nights in the middle of civil wars that have devastated much of the country and continues till today. A study in contradictions, the Afghan Star phenomenon is both an expression and a catalyst of the dramatic conflicts that are shaping modern Afghanistan. Ty Burr can be reached at tburr@globe.com. Setara said she is open-minded and wants other Afghans to be as well. Seguido por unos 11 millones de personas en todo el pas, Rafi Nabzada, Lima Sahar, Setara Hussainzada y Hamid Shakhizada compiten por conseguir su sueo, convertirse en el cantante ms famoso de Afganistn. The Taliban outlawed music for five years. The performers in Afghan Star, both men and women, hardly move on stage. During her farewell performance she dances with free body movements without her hijab, as opposed to the more constrained dancing considered socially appropriate. //