Dramas

Written by Yogeshwar Karera and directed by Ali Junejo, Bargad is an unsettling look at family, faith and the things we choose...

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...

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...

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

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Pakistan's AI Reporters Aren't What Journalism Needs

The launch of Pakistan Today English News, billed as the world’s first fully AI-powered English-language channel, has ignited debate in Pakistan’s already embattled media industry. Is this a bold step toward efficiency and global reach or a shortcut that sidelines human journalists in favour of avatars...

Green TV

Green TV’s Main Zameen Tu Aasmaan Glosses Over Land Grabbing

Pakistan’s land mafias fuel displacement and violence. The drama makes it look easy to fight back. The story begins with Shahabuddin refusing to sell his hotel to a powerful family, leading to his arrest. His daughter Hooram (Hiba Bukhari) storms into a police station, delivers a lecture on constitutional...

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Blender: The Smartest Show on TV?

Is this the smartest show on TV? Blender. Hosted by Fahad Bombaywala, Executive Director at 365 and alum of M&C Saatchi and Ogilvy, Blender looks nothing like mainstream Pakistani TV. It sounds smart, feels sharp and refuses to play dumb. It treats the audience as if they’re already insiders. At...

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Confessions of a Chronically Online Pakistani Woman

I live on the internet. Not just on it, but in it, like a fish in plastic-choked water, inhaling memes instead of air. I remember when it wasn’t this bleak. The internet once felt like a refuge, a parallel world that softened the suffocation of the offline one. Sharing silly memes was a small act of...

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Between Dramas and Discos: Pakistan Holds Many Worlds

For those who view Pakistan through a narrow lens, the country is imagined as a stage for endless morality plays. In mainstream dramas like Humsafar or Khiṭāb, morality is pitted against desire, female agency is checked at every turn, and middle-class values dominate the script. It’s a lens that freezes...

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Queer Visibility as Defiance: The Stakes of Pakistan’s Culture Wars

For centuries colonial and nationalist projects have painted Muslims as either hyper-conservative or exotically oppressed. Queer Muslims disrupt both of these images. Their stories are ones where faith, identity, and desire collide in ways that colonial histories, patriarchal traditions, and global pop...

ARY

Main Manto Nahi Hoon Drowns in Self-Indulgent Melodrama

‘Main Manto Nahi Hoon’, produced by Six Sigma Plus and helmed by director Nadeem Baig, is a bold experiment in storytelling, courtesy of writer Khalil-ur-Rahman’s unapologetic pen. Known for sparking controversy, Khalil-ur-Rahman delivers once again (although I’m not sure that’s a compliment). While...

Hum TV

Goonj Gets Workplace Harassment Right

Three episodes in, Hum TV’s workplace drama Goonj has us hooked with its powerful story about gender politics and harassment. The realistic serial is sure to strike a chord with working women as it echoes what many of us have lived through, capturing challenges that are deeply personal for many...

ARY

Rasm-e-Wafa: Who’s Who and What Just Happened

If you sat through the first five episodes of Rasm-e-Wafa wondering when the breezy romance we were promised in the promos would actually start, you’re not alone. It’s been a rough few episodes full of drawing room drama, moan sessions, and slow-burn resentment but the stage is finally set for...

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Was Sabeen Hijacked by Hate Again?

The moral outrage over Parwarish began the way most internet scandals do: with one screenshot. One frame, shared a thousand times over. A blink-and-you-miss-it second in ARY’s hit family drama Parwarish The scene that became the centre of controversy was one where the protagonist Wali records a song...

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