Hey guys, I am doing a research for my university thesis on the female characters of old Pakistani dramas and new ones. Do you think that there has been a shift, example older characters were stronger as compared to their newer meek counterparts?
I’ll really appreciate you opinions.
Thanks
I think you have already opened a thread on this.What do you study?
Anyways this might help
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Communication Design. Yea I have seen this, but I wanted some public opinions.
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Communication Design. Yea I have seen this, but I wanted some public opinions.
I think there has been shift... though the characters in old days were very much nearer to reality, today's characters are somewhat created in vaccuum. Hardly, we find characters to which we can relate. Its either extra liberal upper class women, which doesn't represent masses or a woman from lower and feudal class from 80s and 90s reincarnated in today's time. Middle class woman lost its representation in today's dramas.
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that’s interesting considering how a lot of the producers use digest stories to appeal to the middle and lower classes. Also women from upper classes also find these dramas appealing 
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How many of these dramatised novels from digest don’t refer to rich families. I can’t think any one. Why each and every script should revolve around a rich family or characters who desire for to be part of rich families. Can’t we create stories between same class?
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maybe these producers think that this is the aspiration of middle classes
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Then they are generalising middle class and this generalisation will not last longer like Star Plus glamour.
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Communication Design. Yea I have seen this, but I wanted some public opinions.
Communication Design interesting (never heard of that). Sometimes i think is there any need to compare old dramas with new? They simply cannot be compared, the simplicity, motivation, subject and timely ending were some of the key factors in those days that kept the audience hooked to their TV screens whereas, now it's all glamor, lack of proper subject and useless dragging.Media was not so powerful in old days due to which people were not aware of social issues (like physical abuse, second marriages, kids custody etc) that were happening around them which were discussed only in dramas and that left the viewers thinking if they ever come across such situation they will know how to tackle with it but, now these issues are so common and the way news channels cover it leaves a negative impact that even if they try to show it in drama people ask what's new in it? So i think in old dramas they tried to convey positive message through their acts.
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Even Girls in villages read these digest novels and such stories leave them in a fantasy world and they start to live in that dream world.They start to compare their life style with those of the rich…Complex ka shikar 
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Media could actually play a role and give these girls something more realistic to work towards
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Media could actually play a role and give these girls something more realistic to work towards
when it comes to reality, our today's media can either produce 'Criminal Most wanted' , 'Khwaja Naveed ki Adaalat' or PTV's ' Murghbani o Resham ka keRa paalne ke tareeqe'
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Irresponsible media
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do you think that the class creating these plays have changed? A lot of people say that these are middle class or lower class aspirations and we all know that PTV was more or less being run by the ruling class.
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do you think that the class creating these plays have changed? A lot of people say that these are middle class or lower class aspirations and we all know that PTV was more or less being run by the ruling class.
PTV was not run by ruling class. consider stalwart director and producers from PTV's golden era (Qasim Jalali, Mohsin Ali, Sahira Kazmi, Ayub Khawar, Muhammad Nisar Hussain) who belonged to ruling elites? Instead, now wanna be directors like Babar Jawed, Fahim Burney themselves seem to be inspired from likes of Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor's 500 / 500 crores references.
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What i mean is that PTV was a state run channel and under a lot of influence of the government. I don't know how they managed to sneak things like Tanhayian and Aangan Terha under the radar. The writers and directors though were from the educated upper classes and maybe that's why their content was much more progressive. As compared to the writers now, from what i have found out there mentality seems to be stilted and stuck in the dreams of the 80s 90s lower classes.
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What i mean is that PTV was a state run channel and under a lot of influence of the government. I don't know how they managed to sneak things like Tanhayian and Aangan Terha under the radar. The writers and directors though were from the educated upper classes and maybe that's why their content was much more progressive. As compared to the writers now, from what i have found out there mentality seems to be stilted and stuck in the dreams of the 80s 90s lower classes.
Umera Ahmed is double MA... Most of the today's directors are owners of media houses and TV channels. They just don't want to experiment. working on glamourised sets and masala stories to make money is their only motive
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hmm interesting
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There are some good and experimental directors from new lot, who sometimes come up with different works. One is Sarmad Khoosat who did Kalmoohi (based on Tagore's novel), Aao Kahani bunte hain series, Bano Qudsia's Piya Naam ka Diya and then came a long long commercial flicks. Now he is working on Saadat Hussain Manto's stories.
Ahsan Talish is also a talented director having projects like Neeli Chatri on his credit.
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yes true, i think though nobody bothers to market these plays.