LAHORE 03 Nov (Online); Drama \u2018Meray Paas Tum Ho\u2019 is being converted into a book and will available for purchase by the end of this year.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the screenwriter Khalil ur Rehman Qamar shared the news on Twitter, posting what seemed to be the book cover. \u201cMeray Paas Tum Ho is getting published. InshaAllah it will be available in markets by December. <\/p>\n
Get your copy booked by contacting the publisher Mr Fawad at 03004827500,\u201d he wrote. The cover features a combined photo of Humayun Saeed, Ayeza Khan and Adnan Siddiqui, the stars of the drama. When God favours a woman, you feel glad, but when another man does the same, you don\u2019t, read a line over the title.<\/p>\n
Published by Aks Publications, the book received mixed reactions. Quite a few netizens wished the author would write about topics that are more relevant to the country\u2019s state.<\/p>\n
Some were not okay with the way women are portrayed by Qamar. They want empowered women serving as role models instead of reading tales about \u201cpoor men\u201d.<\/p>\n
One Twitter user wants a USB inside the book with the OST in it \u2014 quite a tall order.<\/p>\n
MPTH, a show so popular people thought its rating surpassed that of Game of Thrones, caused some waves when it originally aired in 2019. The story was about a woman being unfaithful to her husband. It garnered a lot of negative attention because of its misogynistic portrayal of women, there was even a legal attempt to stop the show\u2019s final episodes from airing in January 2020 because the female petitioner deemed it too disrespectful towards women. (The Lahore Civil Court judge was quick to dismiss the petition).<\/p>\n
Around a week later, one of the leads, Saeed, was summoned by Sindh High Court over the problematic dialogues he delivered in the drama written by Qamar. Sana Saleem alleged that the script routinely spotlighted offensive dialogues about women and wanted an apology to the public for the same by MPTH\u2019s writer, actor and producer.<\/p>\n
She also objected to the show portraying Karachi in a negative light, the infamous \u2018do takkay ki aurat\u2019 dialogue, featuring a couple living together without a nikaah as well as a six-year-old trying to set up his father and school teacher, among other things.<\/p>\n
Lawyers on behalf of PEMRA and ARY were also present in court. The court questioned PEMRA\u2019s representative regarding whether they have a way of monitoring dramas through in-house censors. PEMRA\u2019s lawyer responded that they have a separate forum to do so, keeping in mind their policy that language and visuals in dramas should be within the moral code of society.<\/p>\n
One of the actors, Rehmat Ajmal, ended up distancing herself from the project after she heard the writer\u2019s views on women. \u201cI absolutely do not endorse the concepts and viewpoints of Mr Khalil Ur Rehman. I watched Khalil Ur Rehman\u2019s interview and got to know about his problematic views on very many things WAY after the project was completed. I am not proud to be part of something that is so compromising and ill-informed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE 03 Nov (Online); Drama \u2018Meray Paas Tum Ho\u2019 is being converted into a book and will available for purchase by the end of this year. On Wednesday, the screenwriter Khalil ur Rehman Qamar shared the news on Twitter, posting what seemed to be the […]<\/p>\n
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