Dramas

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...

Why is no one discussing Leader’s brutal take on revolution?

I admit I came late to political thriller Leader. It’s not packed with big-name stars or viral reels. But this heartbreaking...

Kuch Ankahi - minority representation ARY Kashf Foundation

Decoding Primetime Hegemony: Who Is the Default Pakistani?

If you turn on your television in 2026, you will be confronted by a remarkably smooth world. There is no grit. There is no...

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...

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 combines an arsenal of beloved romantic tropes: enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn romance, forced proximity, and pretend marriage, as these two professions collide in increasingly awkward circumstances. Mushk (Mawra Hocane) inherits a matchmaking company

Hum TV

HUM TV's Raaja Rani Struggles For Subtlety

This scribe has observed that Pakistani dramas are having quite the moment with mental health storylines. Sher throws its lead into an asylum, Behroopia has Faysal Qureshi juggling multiple personalities, and now Raaja Rani saunters in, where Qureshi once again finds himself knee-deep in psychological...

ARY

Untangling deception in Shikwa

Shikwa is almost over, but it still doesn’t make sense. While some Pakistani dramas like Parwarish and Behroopia are daring to subvert social norms and offer layered characters and nuanced narratives, ARY’s Shikwa plays it safe and reinforces every classist and sexist cliché instead of challenging...

ARY Opinions

Ranking the Most Loving (and Most Harmful) Parents in Parwarish

Parwarish is most relatable portrayal of Pakistani family dynamics on TV today, eschewing melodrama and moral binaries to show the small choices that shape entire lives Parenting is not just a background detail here it’s the emotional engine of the story. From suffocating patriarchs to quietly radical...

ARY

Sher is Surprisingly... Not Awful

Let me be honest, I’m not a big fan of Danish Taimoor dramas. The larger-than-life storytelling, the hyper-masculinity and the predictable love-at-first-sight plots rarely hold my interest. So when Sher began airing on ARY, I was hesitant. Despite that, I decided to give the drama a chance. Why? Mainly...

Geo TV

Doosra Chehra Doesn't Understand the Internet

Doosra Chehra is a four-part miniseries that fails to live up to its own premise. Meant to explore the emotional fallout of curated lives and digital envy, it instead collapses into a morality tale about how the grass is greener on the other side. The biggest problem? It doesn’t understand the internet,...

Green TV

This Eid Telefilm Shows The Perfect Brother

Bechara Dil, Green TV’s Eid telefilm, is a refreshingly tender and unexpectedly sharp coming-of-age story centered on a young man learning how to lead. We fall in love with Umar, played with understated vulnerability by Shahzad Sheikh. He isn’t your typical “man of the house.” A struggling stand-up comedian...

Opinions

The Urgency of Responsible Storytelling in Pakistani Television

Television in Pakistan rarely pushes back. Most dramas reinforce the same message: don’t question authority, protect tradition, and preserve the status quo. A woman punished for wanting more. A man rewarded for saying less. Most of our screen stories serve the same goal. Don’t question the preacher....

Faraar Green TV

Final Faraar Twist: Assassin Seeks Your Prayers

After 25 episodes of blood, betrayal, and blurred morals, Faraar finally reached its conclusion.But after the thrilling buildup of the previous episodes, the finale was a major letdown. While the series deserves credit for venturing into uncharted territory in Pakistani television, its ending exposed...

Faraar Green TV

Faraar: No Heroes, No Villains — Just a Failed System

In a television landscape saturated with melodrama and moral binaries, Faraar broke out to become one of the most riveting, genre-bending dramas Pakistan has seen in years. What started as a manhunt spiraled into a slow-burning, psychologically layered thriller. Now, with the finale just days away, fans...

Geo TV

Misery is the Main Character in Behkaway

The premise of Geo’s daily soap Behkaway is tragically simple: one woman suffers endlessly while everyone around her is emotionally abusive. Shopkeeper Zubair (Yasir Nawaz) is a middle-aged man-child who is casually cruel to his wife Zeenat (Hiba Ali Khan). Zeenat is the model bahu who has been enduring...

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