Revival of Pakistani Dramas

Revival of Pakistani Dramas

By Ghulam Mustafa Shah

Now days, Pakistani drama has given a setback to the dramas of Star plus. With powerful script, limited episodes, soulful stories and the efforts of drama makers, Pakistani drama has once again reached at the peaks of glory.

This credit goes to the story writers who focused many issues of society and these stories touch the heart of many people all over the country.

In the very early days of television in Pakistan, there was only one TV channel, Pakistan Television Network (PTV) which telecasted many popular dramas like Dhuwan, Dhoop Kinaray, Zeest etc.

City and village markets used to get empty when these dramas were telecasted because these dramas were purely based on fine stories with powerful script and no glamour was shown in these dramas. Such popularity leads them to achieve many awards at national as well as international level. This was the glorious period of Pakistani drama.

After 2003, our drama copied the culture of Star plus and our drama badly lost their original position.

But few years back, most of Pakistani people especially females were crazy about star plus drama and they adopted the whole culture of star plus in their personal lives. Their living styles also became much like Indian culture which is not acceptable in our society.

Consequently, the Pakistani drama makers were compelled to make such drama, which projected Indian culture.

These dramas badly affected every aspect of our life and created various problems in our families so it bored audience of watching these endless dramas.

Soon drama makers and audience realized that such kind of dramas violates our culture and cross values of our society.

After Mumbai attacks, India started a media war against Pakistan. Even our stars which were performing there were treated hatefully which caused a wave of hatred in the minds of Pakistani public. Thus this event also changed the media policies even in drama making.

Pakistani drama makers realized that our drama should be free of Indian cultural elements which are not acceptable in our society so they started the old way of drama making which was based upon limited episodes and fine stories with powerful scripts.

Many old and new writers again wrote new stories of our modern society. They criticized and focused over different social issues. Among those dramas Meri An Suni Kahani of Hum TV and Meri Zaat Zara-e- Benishan of GEO TV were very much popular.

Now days, Pakistani youth, especially girls gossip about the social issues of our own society instead of discussing Saas bhi kabhi Bahu thi and Kum kum.

Private media channels like GEO, ARY Digital, HUM TV, TVONE etc are making good serials which include our own cultural elements rather than Indian culture. Because of these changes Pakistani people appreciate these dramas very much.

Same glory of Pakistani drama is being revived and now many popular dramas are being telecasted. Those dramas have earned soul popularity among audience at national and international level. Weekly Roshni