Who are the target viewers of Pakistani dramas

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Re: Who are the target viewers of Pakistani dramas

@TheObviousTroll

I don’t know many dramas, mainly because the only channel running in our home is Geo but they have this one drama called, “Sabz Pari Laal Kaboter” (something like that, I can’t covert Urdu to English letters) and from the looks of it seems to be about a poor family struggling to survive? I don’t know. There’s also some drama called Diya Jalaye Rakhna which is about giving females and poor folk an education.
I don’t really watch them, I just kind of know some dramas.
But I don’t get how displaying issues in societies in dramas will get anybody fired up about anything. I thought entertainment was to get away from the pains of real life. I know it won’t hurt to make a decent storyline about something other than marriage, but still. How will this do anything?

you came up with good examples. ‘Sabz Pari Laal Kabootar’ and ‘Diya Jalae Rakhna’ tried their best to do something different, but they didn’t get applause like Humsafar and Zindagi Gulzar hai. They were lost among other projects running at that time.

As far as the question of how a message conveyed through drama / movie affects lives of viewers, I would say people follow what is being emphasized (read as glamorised) on media. Entertainment is not necessarily be an escape from realities all the time. Scripts based on real life issues can create necessary awareness among the masses. One may come up and say news channels are doing all this, but one should keep in mind that drama has its own impact and its not necessary that drama viewers also follow News channels in same spirit.