Pakistani dramas get massive response on new Indian channel Zindagi

[StrangeOne]

Re: Pakistani dramas get massive response on new Indian channel Zindagi

@shaasavera

I like olden day Pakistani movies. They remind me of the classic Bollywood movies of the past. I remember this song called Tamam umr tujhe zindagi ka pyar mile. It’s a bday song but its so melodius. Looks like we’ve be having billboards of Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Sanam Baloch. We did have some billboards when bol movie was out. Atif Aslam, Ali Zafar and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan do feature in billboards.
Really? I find Pakistani shows to be not as dramatic but then i do watch lot of indian shows with the parents. We find Pakistani shows more moderate, classy and subtle. The shows have good storylines and lot of emotions. They can be sad. Humsafar and Zindagi gulzar hai are worth a watch and ive heard partition series Dastaan is good too. With partition themed shows im worried i’ll be thinking too much about the story after ive watched it. That i’ll be thinking “why”, “how could it happen” and if it’s one sided “what happened to that other side.”
Indian reality shows are funny and good entertainment value.
I’m glad overall it was a positive experience and educational for them also. They were curious about language? They should know urdu is similar to hindi. I wonder why cycle rickshaws were banned? Probably because its not a safe practice. It is fun though it can be dangerous. At the age of 13 i nearly slipped through the cracks at the back of the rickshaw. I don’t know how they cycle so many people. I’ve always wanted to visit Lahore, see Food street, see Badshahi mosque from a distance, see the gurudwaras in Lahore etc I’m pretty sure if i lived in Amritsar i’d be tempted to try to get to Lahore being only 50 km away. I’d take my chances. I’m guessing if someone lived in Lahore or Amritsar it would be easy to visit the other place with visas than other cities further away. I know in pre-partition days it used to be the glamour city. There used to be films shot there..more so than Mumbai.
The closest ive been in Punjab is Chandigarh which is about 280 km away. I’m from Delhi so Lahore is like my sister city. Both have great Mughal architecture.
When i was younger i used to have a pet calf and cows are quite frequent in India. That’s cool that you came across monkeys in the north. We have monkeys enter houses in Agra and it’s fun just watching them. Then in Gujurat peacocks are common. They come at dawn and dusk. North would be Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or northern areas? I’ve always wanted to visit Swat valley, Murree, Islamabad and Taxila. That’s seriously my dream.

Delhi to Lahore took me 24 hours. I got out of my house at 3 am and reached the youth hotel at 3am (though there was a ridiculously long breakfast at the border) so Amritsar to Lahore is a waaay more feasible trip although I did enjoy seeing the smaller cities on the way like I wouldn’t have in a plane ride. I think Lahore is not that different from Delhi (I have the ghar ki murgi daal barabar syndrome) but I definitely enjoyed the non-mughal architecture more so Delhi won because of that.

I was talking about monkeys in Murree. I think everyone’s who’s gone there has had at least one monkey related incident. I remember sitting on a ledge changing my camera batteries when I realized someone was touching my hair. My hair is the same colour as the monkey and I was wearing the same colour of brown sweater so it must have thought it needed to touch the giant monkey. We unfortunately don’t have any locally occurring peakcocks other than in tharparker.