Motorcycle girl is a Pakistani biographical adventure drama film based on the life of motorcyclist Zenith Irfan. It was written, directed, and produced by Adnan Sarwar. Actor Sohai Ali Abro has played motorcycle girl. The plot revolves around an 18-year-old girl, who lives in Lahore, Pakistan. She becomes an overnight sensation after traveling to dangerous northern areas of Pakistan on a motorbike. They were mountain areas, where she traveled. She is the first Pakistani woman to ride across the country. It was a dream of her father which she fulfilled after his death. If you want to accomplish something big, you need to keep dreaming first. We live in a society where a woman riding a bike is a difficult act of courage. Zenith had the support of her family with her. She is the first female rider across Pakistan. After Zenith Irfan’s courage, we see many people now riding a bike. By people I mean women. Still, it is not ridden widely as there is a fear of society instilled in our minds. What people will say, this is the biggest problem in our society. We think a lot about it. Especially before breathing. Okay, that was sarcasm in order to explain how is it. She has done something huge, that requires a lot of hard work and guts especially for women in our society. Zenith proved you can do what you set your mind to. Zenith’s father died at such a young age of 34. He had a dream of traveling Pakistan on a motorbike which he could not do. As a daughter, Zenith fulfilled his dream of riding a bike across Pakistan. Back in 2013, Zenith’s younger brother bought a motorbike for himself, she started taking some lessons from him. She was a quick learner, so she learned quickly how to ride a bike. She started riding a bike in no time. She rode, starting from Lahore till Khunjeraab pass. Whatever she did was for her father. As a daughter, she did the right thing. She documented her journey in blogs that she wrote on Facebook and Instagram. She explained many times that it was a spiritual journey for her. Her story was so inspiring that a biopic was made on her. She said: “At the beginning, it was a big struggle for me,” says Irfan. “I was so confused about how to manage the gear, the clutch, the brakes.
“It was very confusing and frustrating but then I got the hang of it.” When I was on the road, it was like a coming together of my mind, body, and soul,”
“I could meditate properly. I really felt different, very emotional and liberated.” I’m not so fearful because I know that if death has to come, it’ll come anyway even if I’m at home,”. Even danger couldn’t stop her. “I can’t avoid it. I can’t obstruct my dreams because of a fear of death and accidents.”
“There aren’t many female bikers here, it’s a very small segment of society,” Irfan says.
“They obviously thought I was male,” she explains. “Whenever I stopped to ask directions and they realized I was female, they didn’t know what to do.
“They just stood there with their mouths open and didn’t know how to respond.
“I went away so quickly, didn’t give them time to digest the fact that I was a woman asking them directions.”
One man said to her “girls don’t ride motorcycles.”
She recalls, one woman in Misgar — a tiny village near China — left a lasting impression.
“We couldn’t understand each other as she was talking in her own language. She told me through a local translator, ‘What you’re doing is unbelievable.’
“She was very happy to see me there,” says Irfan.
Theodore White once said: ” To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”
