Hi Everyone!
2024 has to be one year for me where I was this close to giving up on Pakistani Dramas but suddenly I was delivered and I can't keep calm. And am I happy ? More than that. I feel like I have been on IF for so long and have stalked Pakistani Drama Forums from the time I was introduced to shows like YKS, DED and ZGH(that was earlier and I was a kid) and then I have been on a hunt for years but nothing came closer before I enjoyed Alif. And also found Udaari before that and added those to the list.
After that Parizaad caught fame, so I followed. Didn't work for me but I know people love it. Shows came, content came and slowly I found myself driving away, struggling to make sense of the shows as a whole, finding them to be losing authenticity, that charisma that once drew me to Pak dramas which felt closer to life. At least parts of it. If not the leaves, then the branches. Fallen or not.
But sadly after 2020 I hardly followed. Ishq E Laa felt good but a lot of unused potential left me itching.
So all in all....I had given up, because of trash content, toxic male leads , idiotic female leads, the lack of diversity in the content and have stopped coming to the forums, even silently stalking.
But this month blinding caught on JEJ (gladly coming across after it was done) through a friend and oh my heart. Finished in in some four days.
And What a beauty ! I have been obsessed.
My heart longing for more even after it ended. And then I caught on KMKT (I was avoiding it because of the hype ) and then ZPKB ( was keeping an eye since the beginning and knew the content was going to be worth it)
And now coming to the point of this post, Today I was thinking about it and was surfing through the forums and reached to the conclusion that a major chunk of my dislike and dissatisfaction towards the content was how in all these years we had gone backwards when it came to writing female leads or male leads. For me as a fifteen year old girl who watched ZGH for the first time and heard Kashaf talking about her struggles and life, had been an eye opener. Even then I haven't liked Zaroon and found him problematic but nevertheless it was my first show that truly moved me. And then in 2019 when I had watched YKS...that show has moved me to the point where it had left an impact on my life, I watched it at a crucial point in my life and that show had given me so much.
Cut to, from male leads life Dr Asfandyar, we have gone to getting male leads who were toxic, obsessive and problematic on every level with no character arc or whatsoever (maybe not all but most). And not only that, regressive content, normalising toxicity, bad behaviour, lack of self respect, marital r and whatnot.
So when, all of a sudden I came across Shehram, followed by Mustafa and Nofeil, the old school fan in me hoped for hope and have been happier than ever.
Shehram - Jaan E Jahan
Mustafa- Kabhi Mein Kabhi Tum
Nofeil- Zard Patton Ke Bunn
And not only that, be it Meenu, or Sharjeena or Mahnoor, they have been fls with an element to them, an edge to them.
So yeah just a random post.
Feel free to drop your thoughts and do suggest any other good show that serves as a whole.
Here is my list of the shows that I am familiar with -
- Life Changing-
- Yakeen Ka Safar
- Zindagi Gulzar Hai
- Zard Patton Ka Bunn
- Best-
- Diyar E Dil
- Jaan E Jahan
- Kabhi Mein Kabhi Tum
- Humsafar
- Alif
- Udaari
- Good-
- Besharam
- Do Bol
- Dillagi
- Meri Jaat Zarra E benishaan
- Tabeer
-Akanksha
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