Parizaad (HUM TV)- Ushna S, Urwa H, Saboor A, Ahmed Ali Akbar - Page 11

I just watched the OST. It had a movie feel. I hope it lives up to the expectation.

Originally posted by: -shabz-

I just watched the OST. It had a movie feel. I hope it lives up to the expectation.

Yeah hope so

The OST was enough to show how amazing AAA will be.

All the FLs look good except for Mishal.

Originally posted by: dramebaaz.af

Pakistan has more than 40% of population with dusky skin tone. If they couldn't find a man within the fraternity with the acting chops and dusky tone, why not do open casting instead of taking a fair skinned man and doing black face on him. Absolutely disgusting! Can't believe it's 21st century and we are still dealing with 19th century racism and colorism in this country

Completely agreed. Pakistan has an ongoing fascination with light skin. I've always thought it's a colonial hangup, compounded by media narratives. We very rarely see dark skinned actors onscreen and when we do it's never in glamorous roles. Light skin does not equal beautiful. It's your features that determine your physical beauty. Yet, extremely beautiful or good looking actors will be scorned because their skin isn't light enough.

It's just so frustrating. My ethnicity is Pakistani but I've never been there, my parents have only been there twice in their lives as well so I've had very little exposure to some of these beliefs. However we once had this lady come to our house, she had recently come from Pakistan, and she kept on staring at my feet. First I thought I'm probably just imagining it. However, eventually she told us that she always looks at young girls feet to check their real skin colour and make sure they're not pretending they're light-skinned using make-up! We we were so shocked, and disgusted.

If some girls do make their skin look lighter using make-up, it's because of people like her and dramas like this which really degrade dark skin by shunning dark-skinned people.

Originally posted by: Arshi1195

Pakistan and India's entertainment industry in general is super tone deaf. The majority of celebrities are ignorant and not in-touch with a lot. They are performative with their activism and hypocritical. In the recent years Hollywood has faced change and has been held more accountable because of how society is progressing in the West to become more sensitive and understanding of marginalized voices. This is still far from happening in South Asia.

Exactly, even the educated actors who you think would know better are extremely ignorant. I haven't watched a Bollywood film in years (last one I watched was the Salman Khan one where he's trying to get the little girl home) but keep up with the gossip every now and again. I was astounded at the level of ignorance Sara Ali Khan has repeatedly exhibited. She's supposedly the pinnacle of intelligence in Bollywood...

In Pakistani television I've never come across anyone who is truly progressive either. For instance, I was really disappointed with Mehwish Hayat's post about marriage by 30; because lying about your age completely undermines the message.

In Hollywood you have a few celebrities who genuinely put their money where their mouth is. Like John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Danny De Vito, Mark Ruffalo, etc.

Originally posted by: BlueWaters20

Exactly, even the educated actors who you think would know better are extremely ignorant. I haven't watched a Bollywood film in years (last one I watched was the Salman Khan one where he's trying to get the little girl home) but keep up with the gossip every now and again. I was astounded at the level of ignorance Sara Ali Khan has repeatedly exhibited. She's supposedly the pinnacle of intelligence in Bollywood...

In Pakistani television I've never come across anyone who is truly progressive either. For instance, I was really disappointed with Mehwish Hayat's post about marriage by 30; because lying about your age completely undermines the message.

In Hollywood you have a few celebrities who genuinely put their money where their mouth is. Like John Cusack, Jane Ford, Danny De Vito, Mark Ruffalo, etc.

Indian movies still have brownface issues. Hritik roshan had his skin darkened for super 30 movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V0IKKIjvuI

I agree with all of you on this matter. Yeah they should have cast a darker tone actor. They should break stereotypes about dark complexion makes a person ugly. It's not like that. Complexion has nothing to do with ugliness.

But on other side I am happy for Ahmed AA. Finally he got a project which can boost his career. Yeah agar AAA ki jaga koi aur popular actor hota then I would totally oppose that. But As AAA is underrated he actually deserves a big project like Parizaad

Zahid would have been perfect in this role

Then the show would have got higher ratings as well

No one will watch it for Ahmed Ali

He is good as parallel lead not as solo lead

Oh no you didn’t just dis AAA😆. AAA is extremely underrated. His scene in ehd e wafa where he meets the Professor after becoming commissioner and later when he meets his colleague in jail , brings tears to my eyes every-time . Laal kabooter is another excellent performance of his, I think he also got an award for it.
Tbh Zahid Ahmed can sometime go OTT.