Part 2
Bhatti Bhai 😆
I have heard people talk about two of his projects. 1) thora sa haq which was roasted a lot but was obviously huge 2) Ghissi pitti mohabbat, this was loved by everyone and his work was appreciated thoroughly cuz apparently his direction in this was mazedaar. Critics and masses both were on the same page for this. Commercially too it did very well and had people talking. There were multiple tracks happening and he apparently justified each one of them.
So i had his latest work in mind and the popular opinion was he redeemed himself with GPM. Lol
Now coming to his work in KTK, there were disconnects in the first 9 episodes too. But not very glaringly obvious which started to get more prominent after the Mehak mari nahi zinda hai episode. Bhatti should have taken care of the environment of these characters to begin with. Mehak's house is so lavishly furnished lol. They could have shown Akram as a government school teacher and not a professor of a university to dilute him more and make him appear more bechara. Small stuff like that. Background of all these characters basically. Coincidences got too out of hand in which it all played out. Shamsher finding out Mehak's whereabouts cuz of her chachi doing the catering business and him matching her handwriting, Sheru finding mehak in multan, shamsher coming face to face with mehak in multan all these coincidences are too much.. things should have led to them better. And the execution of these incidents by bhatti were not convincing. Leaving behind big stuff like how Mehak escaped, like seriously? What on earth was he thinking here. Stuff like a lot of basic details in scenes with regards to continuity and all. The whole ahsan getting into dilawar mansion and shooting shamsher was so choppy. Had no sense how someone like him would get into a house like that.
In so many scenes, while you are watching you are like this character could have just done this but then you answer back yourself that if that didn't happen then how would the story move forward. That should not be how it plays out in the audience's mind.. rather it should be so free flowing the story line that these thoughts dont even come up in the first place. This is again where bhatti lacks. I dont care if a character is too bechara or too evil, but make his circumstances or environment believeable.
On the other bhatti executed a lot of stuff really well. Be it the university mein pitai sequence, when Shamsher learns of mehak getting married and the wasy he storms and comes there and ahsan ko ghaseet kar baahar laata hai, the accident sequence the way it was shot, the opening racing sequence of Shamhser.. all of it is so well done. Very larger than life for pak drama level. He has the nuances established between the two older couples too.
Basically he is half good and half bad lol
Now coming to Seja Bhai 😆
Production value is fine. I think he has given bhatti the liberty to do whatever he thinks fit. And has allotted accordingly. Woh nazar aata hai, with all the different locations and events that take place in the show.
But at the end of the day it looks like he is just interested in the numbers as far as this drama is concerned .. trps and views. And ofcourse popularity. His intention behind this project just seems that. He wanted a blockbuster popular drama for his PH.. the category of a deewangi or a khaani or a Ishq Hai. And he got it. He saw that potential in this story and if it was to be led by someone who is Popular and HOT actor established actor like Danish, he knew exactly he already had a hit. And put somone beautiful like Dur e opposite him. Get an ensemble cast with Naumaan, atiqa, shahood and laila.. it doesn't get better than that in my opinion for this type of setting. And Whether good or bad, put a rahat fateh ali khan song.. lol job done.
If you see the views of KTK and MH from the time KTK went on air, except for like 3 or 4 episodes.. ktk's views have been crossing MH's views week after week. Even TRP wise. Now why i am comparing it to MH, is cuz these two are the current mega drama serials. So Seja as a producer has this also to boast about now. In TRPs three fourth of the time it has topped the entire week across all slots and all channels. What else would seja want.
Having said all that, i dont think he is ready for big projects in terms of execution especially when it includes big names like naumaan, danish .. cuz for that he needs his team to concentrate on other actual important stuff like story writing and direction. If it didn't have Danish as Shamsher, this project would fall flat and would not be the numbers it is making in views or trps even if it is a masala genre. Cuz of Danish's star power and his brand and audience's primary interest in him, other drawbacks are being over looked to a large extent. Seja, Bhatti and Radain should be thankful to Danish lol.
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