Watch Malalai
- NR
- 2016
- 42 min
A battered police Landrover revs on the sand. The patrol is ready and waiting for its commander. Suddenly they are off - Malalai has arrived. ‘Come on Torialay! Give me the gun!’ she orders. Sitting in the back shrouded by her burka she proudly tells us: ‘Anything men can do I can do better! … I am scared only of God.’
Malalai’s father, the police chief, was determined she should follow in his footsteps. ‘My father loved his job. I joined the police because of him.’ She first joined the force 20 years ago and has risen through the ranks. ‘She works like a man’, grins a colleague. But fundamentalists in the city that was once the Taliban’s spiritual heartland hate the idea of a female cop. She receives regular death threats. But Malalai refuses to be cowed. ‘I am not afraid. I must pursue my duty.’
Malalai is a 2016 documentary with a runtime of 42 minutes.