Re: Which Pakistani Drama reintroduced you to Pakistani Television???
I used to watch Pakistani dramas as a kid on PTV with my siblings and ‘Daadi’. Then during the mid 90’s the quality of drama serials went downhill with poor quality productions and mediocre actors taking center screen. I stopped watching Pakistani TV altogether and switched to American Tv Shows.
Then back in 2009, my sister gave me the DVD of Doraha. At this point I hadn’t seen a Pakistani drama in over 11 years. Out of curiosity I popped the DVD in my DVD player and was COMPLETELY and UTTERLY blown away. I remember gaping at my tv in complete awe. It was like being a kid all over again and watching a good quality ptv drama with my family. That night I pulled a NIGHTER watching the whole drama. By the end of it, I was emailing all my friends links on youtube/ vidpk and begged them to watch it. I remember finding Mehreen Jabbar’s personal facebook account and sending her a LONNNGGG email and thanking her for creating a masterpiece. She was gracious enough to reply!
For me that was it!!! my next drama was Malal and then daam. After these two, I basically went mainstream. Started coming on paklinks and looking for recommendations and now I watch at least a couple of pakistani dramas a week.
Doraha holds a very special place because for me it was rebirth of Pakistan Television. So my question to everyone is! WHICH drama was it for you??? (whether you’d never seen Pak Tv before or whether you had stopped watching it liek me)
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Funnily enough my story is same as yours. I also got interested with ‘Doraha’ and actually wrote to praise her work. I think it was her blog back then and she replied back!!