Family Front started very well.. last time I caught it, it was going down the deadly slope of too many actors just like all crappy Indian dramas where everyone stands in a line and delivers their dialogues.
Anwar Maqsood writes well. Moin isn't exactly funny at times. Too exaggerated. Good comedy belongs in the Punjabi realm.. too bad it looses it's charm when translated.
The whole shape of Pakistani Comedy is changing due to this incomprehensible drive to emulate everything from across the border or combat cable.
Indians could NEVER do comedy well.. it's just not their style.
Confucious say: Man who enter turnstile sideway, going to Bangkok
“Moin isn’t exactly funny at times. Too exaggerated. Good comedy belongs in the Punjabi realm.. too bad it looses it’s charm when translated.”
Yeah rriight! punjabi sounds like a jahil’s language if u’ve ever noticed.
Subtle comedy is the best…if u like a pile of over reactions and badly delivered lines then i guess punjabi comedy is what u’d like
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Punjabi is a pure and cool language, and the average punjabi song is better than a song in urdu or hindi.
I have no probs when you say that you don’t like punjabi comedies, but it sucksssss when you say that the punjabi lango sounds like a jahil’s lango!!! So mind it!
You’re over generalizing here.. not all punjabi comedies are like that.. I mean i could pick up some really crappy comedy done in Urdu and blast how lame the whole genre of comedies in Urdu is.. but we need to see the level of excellence one can achieve using both styles.
Comedies in Urdu are done best in ‘tanz’ (sarcasm) with an elitist attitude and subtlety adds to the taste. I did mention Anwar Maqsood and would even add Kamal Ahmad Rizwi to it too.
When this element of deep satire is absent, the comedies are just ‘light’ and ‘touchy feely’ like An Kahi and Tanhayaan and you do get a fair share of overacting with exaggerated characters like Qabacha and whatever that poor Jamshed Ansari has been doing for ages.
With Punjabi, it’s more down to earth, natural and everyday.. badly done by new directors from the Lahore center, it looks like a pile of overreactions and poorly delivered dialogue too… perfect example Sona Chandi and other such banal attempts at humour.. though extremely popular with the general public mind you.
If you do understand Punjabi and it’s inherent style of “jugat baazee”, try old movies by Munawwar Zarif, or Nannha (Rafee Khawar) and Ali Ijaaz.
Catch a standup act by Aman Ullah or something done by the late Dildar Bhatti.
Even Umer Sharif has moved to the Punjab Circuit because of law and order in Karachi AND the fact that people appreciate a laugh more in Punjab which is why it has a larger circuit of live plays, 95% comedies.
Maybe cuz some of us are able to appreciate both we’re better suited to make that call of which one tickles the funny bone more.
Urdu is my first language.. but when I want a rise out of my audience, I switch my jokes to Punjabi
How can you guys forget Mr. Jedi!!! (Not the starwars jedi)
Im not sure all the Pakistanis abroad know about him, but hes pretty famous in Pakistan. He also looks so funny!! and the way he speaks English!! hilarious! Nowadays he rarely works, and makes one or two dramas for PTV's Eid lineup.
sorry to miss out Athar Shah Khan from the list... I've been listening to him from his radio days.
Television has other needs for which he went a little overboard and overacted to complete his character. His humour however definitely remained edgy and Charlie Chaplinesque in the sense that at the end of the day you couldn't help feeling sorry AND laughing at his character at the same time.
Pakistaniabraod, aap ne mere dil ki baat keh di!!! The last jedi drama that aired on PTV was so funny, and yet in the end we feel so sorry for him...
Today I found out that hes been entertaining ppl for a very long time. You mentioned he in radio first... He was also a writer in childrens digests, such as 'hamdard' etc. Apart from this he is also a great poet, u can often see him at PTVs mushairas.
If there is any good link on him, you should give it out here, as Im sure others would also like to know more about this great entertainer.