dumbasses who make garbage like Teray Pehlo Mein, Mehndi and various mutated forms need to stay FAR AWAY from film... these are the very retards who first defamed the genre of films and destroyed any hopes for serious filmmaking in Pakistan... I'm talking about the likes of Javed Fazil, etc... the dude sounds reasonable when you listen to him... but if you have the misfortune of watching his work, you just shake your head...
my problem is with the promotion of drama as a whole at the expense of film (serious film). I would really like to question the policymakers who came up with the brilliant idea of promoting PTV and its dramas as the highest form of art... bringing in the best of artists, writers, etc... and treating film as the redheaded stepchild and leaving it to uneducated morons and kothay walas... the idea doesn't look so smart now does it a few decades later now does it?
Haha...I thought I was the only one who noticed that about Javed Fazil....seriously, the kind of douches they have left film making to are not even capable of directing a decent 35 mm commercial for television, forget a whole drama. Whenever these folks turn to television they produce pathetic over done with zoom-close ups stuff. And yes, they sound like they are the unquestionable authority on film making when they open their mouths.
The audience is to blame partly for the whole mess too. Whenever milder themes have been explored in films (and yes, there were some attempted) folks start labelling those films "dramas" so perhaps in some twisted way, in the absence of decent plots, the audience needs that kind of melodramatic crap, bad zooming every 2 seconds (probably the only thing that works on those 50s cameras), shouting and bad dancing to call a film a film. I mean, if you take the Spanish setting and songs out of Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa it wouldn't be too different from a "drama." The more urbane Pakistanis only accept films when they explore new territory beyond the interesting stuff that is shown on television(such as terrorism (KKL), marital rape (Inteha) romance abroad with swiss alps songs (Dil Aapa Ka Huwa). Even the swiss alps novelty wore off when the director of that film attempted the same stuff in Australia. His film (Khulla Asman something) bombed. I mean, when television explores such diverse themes with decent production values, there isn't much novelty left for the audience when they go to the theater.
The point is, let films be films, and let dramas be "stupid." That is the way they are meant to be. Our dramas have been doing what films should have done and as a result film making has been left to the hands of those unscrupulous elements that exist at the fringes of the society.