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

A PLUS TV Pehchan

Pehchan Episode 13

Apology tendered apology accepted. One that Mansoor hopes will set the clock back and make things alright. His bruised ego made an appearance as did his rationalizing of the situation with a ‘I’ll take care of everything – tum meri ho aur mein tumhe muskhil mein nahin dekh sakta hoon”. This, for him...

ARY Koi Nahi Apna

Koi Nahi Apna - Episodes 8-14

“Dekha jo haath barhaake, sapno ki raishmi dhaage, toote mile, rishte toote mileraaton ko main na soya, sab kuch to maine khoya…”) Let me just start out by saying that seldom have lyrics of an OST been so aptly picturized in a drama serial…kudos to the person in charge of this....

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ARY Pyarey Afzal

Pyarey Afzal- Episode 32 Review

Jo rula sakta hai who impress bhi karsakta hai! Could there be a more precise description of our nishaaney-baaz Afzal? Farah uses the analogy of target killing to disclose the news of Afzal’s engagement to the chichori kal ki laundi Yasmeen since bohat sarey khwab margaye! Farah’s anxiety...

A PLUS TV Marasim

Marasim :episode 15 review

When the Devil enters our hearts he brings a lot of excuses and even more justifications. Ask the world’s worst criminals and they will carefully explain how whatever crime they committed was not their fault but a situation forced on them by cruel circumstance. The brilliance...

Others

First person: End of an era

By Fouzia Nasir Ahmad The room is strewn with an assortment of dupattas, churidars, saris and ghararas that she wore during the scores of television plays and serials that she performed in from 1968 to date. A beautiful Himalayan cat lay sprawled on a bundle of neatly folded clothes. Bader Khalil...

Hum TV Laa

LAA: episode 5 review

Although I enjoyed watching this week’s episode of Laa, I cannot help but mourn the loss of depth in the story line. The initial episodes had seemed to promise a criticism of our cultural obsessions with Hasb o Nasab and cast but the moment Danyal turns out to be a secret Sayyad...

Hum TV Merey Humdum Merey Dost

Mere Humdum Mere Dost- Episode 12 Review

So finally, my weekly rants are brought up in this episode and that helped elevate my viewing experience considerably. For a while I was beginning to think it was just me that was struggling with issues but thankfully that’s not the case. Haider’s stating of the obvious- Tum dhankey kapre...

A PLUS TV Pehchan

Pehchan Episode 12

Moving on is never easy. One fights to hold on, one fights to let go but looks like all the characters today were at a different place from where we left them last. Kuku throws Mansoor’s clothes and cufflinks in a box and shuts it with such finality that I can only hope she’s done with him. Mansoor ne...

ARY Pyarey Afzal

Pyarey Afzal- Episode 31 Review

Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments… yet another episode that managed to throw me off track. Afzal’s promise (Zabaan deta houn- mangni karoun ga...

A PLUS TV Marasim

Marasim Episode 14

Earth to earth; ashes to ashes; dust to dust. In the eternal cycle of life we must always come full circle. Thus, I’m going to talk about this review in terms of words (obviously) but also in terms of a geometrical shape: the circle, and over the course of the next few paragraphs you will encounter...

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