"Pakistani Dramas-A Critical Analysis":
In the world of
today, media has become as necessary as food and clothing. It has
played significant role in strengthening the society. Media is
considered as reflection of the society which is responsible of
portraying negative as well as positive aspects of the society. Even,
it plays a key role in creating a perspective of an individual.
Pakistani entertainment media has always been a vital platform to
provide quality entertainment to the people. In the previous decades,
television had not several entertainment channels apart from PTV
(Pakistan Television). When
it comes to classics, PTV still rules our drama industry. The golden
era of PTV from 50's to 90's produced some of the best
masterpieces that are evergreen hits. Some PTV dramas are considered
all-time favorite in which "Dhoop Kinare", "Unkahi", "Alpha
Bravo Charlie"," Tanhaiyan", "Waris", "Parchaiyan",
"Alif Noon", "Ainak Wala Jin" and "Khuda ki Basti"
lingered in minds of audience for a long time. However, they did not
use to be the echo of society and did not use to highlight the social
issues like acid attacks, transgenders issue, offensive behaviors
faced by working women, etc. But
those dramas used to be consisting over unique dialogues, super class
actors and interesting story plot. Moreover, most of them were witty.
But
now time has changed and trends as well. Today, several entertainment
channels have come into being and the media industry has transformed.
Because of the presence of number of entertainment channels, new
refreshing faces are getting chance to enter in showbiz industry and
are earning fame by just a little effort. Youngsters are availing
this chance and prevailing very quickly in showbiz industry.
Moreover, these entertainment channels are also trying to highlight
the taboos in our society like" Udaari" in which the topic of
child abuse was raised, "Khuda Mera Bhi hai" in which the life of
a transgender and the ill-behaviors of society with them was
portrayed, "Chup Raho", which talks about forbidden issues which
are always swept aside for the sake of family and "Ilteja" which
talks about the problems of children suffering from down syndrome.
But due the increase in quantity, the quality has decreased. The
channels have not variety of plots and due to less number of good
writers, every channel is just trying to make dramas, without giving
importance to the story plot. Therefore, the quality has decreased
with a lack of good dialogues, realistic acting and charismatic story
plots. The young entries are being casted in dramas without training.
For example, a new drama which is being on-aired on HUM-TV "Gila"
has new actors in lead role and their acting is not impressive at
all. In the same way, the dialogues in comedy programs now days are
so much disgusting that one can't watch them with family and they
have only" Abey tabey" while in past Moin Akhtar, Anwar Maqsood
and Babbu Baral were some legendary comedians with superb sense of
humour. In addition to, the recent drama serials are also being
controversial like "Zara Yad Kar" in which the topic of Halala
was discussed, "Pakeeza" in which the wife lived with his
ex-husband after divorce because of her daughter and so on.
I think that the
level of Pakistani dramas is decreasing day by day because of the
poor dialogue delivery, irrelevant cast and nonsense script. But good
dramas are also being made like "Sang-e-mar mar", "Sadqe
Tumhare", "Zindagi Gulzar Hai", "Mera Naam Yousuf Hai",
"Nikah"," Pyare Afzal", "Dastaan", "Humsafar",
"Daam", "Auan Zara", "Mein Abdul Qadir Hoon", "Mata e
Jaan Hai Tu" and "Jackson Heights".
We should try to
make dramas with powerful cast, beautiful dialogue delivery, strong
screen-play and realistic script. But with all misplays, Pakistani
dramas have always rocked.
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