Dramas

The Superman and the Sinner: What Faith Means in Dar-e-Nijaat

How does a lost man find something to live for when he has lost all direction? Zamil is arguably the character you are most...

What Aap ki Izzat gets right about female rage

Aap Ki Izzat gets something right about female rage that many dramas miss. Rage is not just a destructive emotion, sometimes...

Winter Love: Hum TV's K-Drama Inspired Romance Is Melting

Few Pakistani dramas arrive with as much romantic potential as Winter Love. Hum TV’s Mawra Hocane and Khushhal Khan-starrer...

Could Begin Watch become Pakistan’s answer to Netflix?

Begin Watch positions itself as Pakistan’s premium Netflix alternative, but can it justify its higher pricing in a market...

Raqaas Has Some Terrible Parents

There are no slammed doors in Dilawar’s house. No loud music. No carefree laughter. Not even the simple pleasure of standing outside when it rains. Instead, everyone tiptoes. In Raqaas, Green TV’s latest exploration of honour, misogyny and domestic control, fear has become so thoroughly embedded in a family that

ARY

Bas Tera Saath Ho Reinvents Desi Cinderfella

ARY’s new drama serial Bas Tera Saath Ho turns the damsel-in-distress trope on its head. Farhan Saeed plays Anas, an oppressed orphan who dutifully obeys his wealthy uncle and aunt, with only his ailing grandfather seemingly offering any real sympathy. In true Cinderfella fashion, Anas has been reduced...

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Opinions

Accept the Slap but Censor the Hug: This is TV Outrage

In the world of social psychology, there is a concept known as the “threshold of tolerance.” It’s the invisible line that a society draws around its collective behavior. Cross it in one direction, and you are a hero; cross it in the other, and you are a pariah. Recently, a viral out-take from the drama...

ARY

The Many Heroines Who Powered Aik Aur Pakeezah

At a time when conversations around online privacy, consent, and victim blaming are louder than ever, Aik Aur Pakeezah brings them uncomfortably close to prime time television. Directed by Kashif Nisar and written by Bee Gul, the drama hits its hardest from the very first premise. Even its name carries...

ARY

Dr Bahu: A Perfect Life of Polite Patriarchy

I expected Mehreen Jabbar’s Dr Bahu to examine the marriage market demand for a daughter-in-law who is a medical doctor, but I had no idea the drama would also become an inside look at the insidious way coercive control operates within seemingly “modern” households. Through Dr Sania’s eyes, we...

ARY

Dadi Ki Shadi: A Dash of Humor, A Deficit of Heart

Dadi Ki Shadi presents a lonely grandmother who pretends to be mysteriously unwell to pull her scattered family back into the same room. Dadi (Shamim Hilaly) is far from fragile. She is full of vigour, goes on walks, carries a rifle, and even confronts robbers herself. Yet her energy is largely wasted,...

Opinions

Men Age Into Legends. Women Age Into Punchlines

Ageism and misogyny do not announce themselves as villains. They arrive smiling, joking, framed as banter. This week, we saw two such incidents, one in a victorious Olympic locker room and the other on a television set in Pakistan. Both revealed the same ingrained reflex – to trivialize and denigrate...

Green TV

Imtiaz has a TV show. Is It Good?

Green TV is airing a local version of Superstore sponsored by Imtiaz – is it any good? “Fasaana Mart Ka” is well-intentioned, occasionally touching but still fundamentally dull. The Ramazan comedy starts off bumpy and then steadily goes downhill. A strong cast of likeable characters...

Streaming Platforms

Bad Breath and Bigger Anxieties: A Short Film on Conformity

Elaichi, Loung aur Saunf is a short film on Meem Kahani about bad breath, conformity and the marriage market. Nuzhat (Sana Askari) is a woman undone by a single, mortifying flaw: chronic bad breath. She is at her wits’ end. Her halitosis isn’t just a hygiene issue; it’s a social curse. Relationships...

Geo TV

Purity, Class, and the Politics of Aik Aur Pakeezah

Fear, isolation, and terror are not emotions we usually seek out in a primetime viewing slot. Aik Aur Pakeezah is the exception. It does not promise relief or escape. Instead, it places us inside the aftermath of a brutal crime. This is a drama less interested in shock than in what fear does to people...

Green TV

Ghulam Bashah Sundri Is Feudal Melodrama at Full Volume

Green TV’s unabashed masala action drama opens to a world where power is inherited and consequences are optional. At the center of all the madness, is the bromance between Bashah and Ghulam. This relationship might seem cute. They shoot guns together. Drive giant SUVs together. Evade laws together. But...

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