Discuss: Firaaq

muqawwee123 · September 7, 2014, 4:47pm

Re: Discuss: Firaaq

After looking at this thread I Googled the first episode. Couldn’t even finish the first part. The cheesy, 90’s fake-jazz music that’s somehow supposed to represent “Amreeka” and it’s vibe is just so overdone and so not applicable anymore. Then the first actress that came on the scene…her fake English accented Urdu Anyone with such a thick accent to their Urdu doesn’t talk in that much saleeq Urdu…after 1 sentence they switch to English and continue the conversation. The creepy recording of the white girls, if anyone had caught them they would be labelled potential pedos and they would be facing jail. AFAIK, no one is driving down the street in a sports car unless they are 21. Then that second family, with the daughter and the overbearing mother and the quiet father…OVERDONE characters. Every other drama either has a mazloom si maan, or an iron-fisted lady. Completely OTT. I skipped ahead a few minutes after she brought out the laundry basket, to see if it gets better, and no. It didn’t. 1/10

It’s not like these people (actors, producers, directors, writers) don’t already have dual citizenship and live in US/Canada/UK and don’t really know what people look like, talk like, eat like etc. So why try to show things that aren’t so off putting?

Thanks for this review. I was thinking to watch it just because of Uzma Gilani, but will utilise my time in something else