Why Not Me (Urdu) – COVID and Me

Why Not Me

Written by Sudha Bhuchar / Performed by Shobu Kapoor / Directed by Nigel Townsend

Meet Varsha

Varsha featured in our first series, COVID and Me. Varsha is coming to terms with her only son deciding to sign up to participate in a vaccine trial. Will she stop him or support him?

Will she stop him or support him?
Do you know anyone like Varsha or Varsha’s son ?
How could you help them confront their vaccine hesitancy ?
Do you agree with Varsha’s son?
Have you heard or met anyone saying similar things to the Mango Man

This monologue available in four different languages on this site Punjabi, Urdu/Hindi, ban gala and English

Tags: Vaccine hesitancy, Sudha Bhuchar, long covid, big pharma companies, herd immunity, Mango man, Asians, What’s App, Live vaccines, Punjabi, mandated, Shaheen Khan

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Urdu Script

Extracts

Why you my only child

Today My son said that he is joining the vaccine register. The only way out of this is if they find a vaccine that works for everyone. I said, ‘Let others who have more children do it. Why you? My only child.’

How can they expect Asians who don’t speak english to sign up with all this red tape

How can they expect Asians who don’t speak English to sign up with all this red tape?’
‘Exactly mum. Research needs to shake it up and include them’
Like our ‘mango man’ who posted on Whatsapp that everyone will be forcibly injected with vaccine and they will get corona.‘Tell him it’s not a ‘live’ vaccine mum, and know one will be forced to have it

Playwright Sudha Bhuchar talks about writing Why not me

These digital drama’s are fictional pieces commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and produced in collaboration with Leeds university. The content of each film is an artistic interpretation based on authentic patient voices and therefore, the views expressed are not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care or the collaborating organisations.