u/Admirable_Fig_3023

Really love their friendship! Also love how they reached the big number within a short period of each other!

Let me first say that I'm not watching this drama but all the scenes come on Instagram anyway so I've been following it thru them only. The only reason I didn't start it coz I just can't stand a ML like Anas. And every new episode just proves me right.

Take this scene for example. I'm not seeing this and thinking 'Ansa is so great' but I'm thinking 'How much of a loser is this Anas?' Your wife got taunted for effing consuming food in YOUR house (from what I remember the house was in his and now in Ansa's name, so correct me if I'm wrong) by YOUR relatives and what did you do exactly? He let her fight for herself and just nodded along and added his agreements with her? That's it? Couldn't he atleast demand that the kitchen be separated and they'd buy their own share of groceries and cook in that part?

Even here, he's like 'Ansa is right'. Does this man have no opinion or dignity of his own? I don't care how much he was bullied or traumatized coz nothing justifies being spineless. It's like every episode I see the same scenes come up, Ansa taking a stand for something and him just adding his agreement as an afterthought.

Is that his only job? Being there as an afterthought? WHAT exactly is he doing in this drama?

Desi aunties will never not be funny

Since the 'Flopjeerain' narrative crowd keep bringing up Hum's TRP criteria to say trps are fake or manipulated, I thought I'd share the PDPTRP page's trp for last week too.

I specifically remember Hajra saying in her interview that this is a long drama and a lot is to come. What happened?

Just how disgusting do you have to be to say an actress is ruined for you coz they are portraying someone who slept with her fiance before marriage?

I've only been amazed at the number of countries I've seen become obsessed with Zanjeerain. As as part of celebrating the 1 billion views, I thought I'd just leave some of the posts here just for keepsakes. I'll add more in comments if I find them!

Please feel free to add more!

This makes her recent remark about the lack of chemistry even more amusing. Like you can change your opinions about story or a drama in general, but how do you go from this to saying they have no chemistry? First time hearing that chemistry goes away all within the span of an ongoing drama. Can you blame the fans who are saying they're getting paid for this? Do they realize this kinda inconsistency only brings down their own credibility which was crap to begin with.

Felt like sharing some tweets from this week because Zanjeerain has quietly built a proper international fanbase, and the nikkah episodes have brought in another surge of fans from Turkey, Arab, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Lebanon, Portugal. Not sure any other PTV drama in recent times has pulled this off. Particularly, the Turkish fanbase for the drama is incredible. Usually it's Pakistani audiences going crazy over Turkish dramas, not the other way around.

Instagram is a whole other story. the edits and their reach this year have been unreal. Unverified but I'd argue it's the biggest of the year.

Meanwhile some subs (*cough*special mentions to the sub which should change its name to anti-zanjeerain now*cough*) are convinced it's all Sajal and Ali Zafar's PR and Hum connections. Genuinely funny considering Danyal's other Hum dramas exist and weren't half as popular. And apparently Sajal's PR was on a long vacation before this because 'flopjal', remember?

The TRP discourse is equally entertaining. Saw a post about how Zanjeerain's PR is labeling it as the second highest rated Humtv drama (which Anaa got). I mean, do they realize that any channel would do the same for any drama in place of Zanjeerain, even if it had their favorite in it? But sure.

Honestly the anti-Zanjeerain PR is working harder than any actual PR could. Half the subs are pressed and all they're doing is keeping it in the conversation. Much appreciated. 😌

I don't really like comparisons between Sajal's pairings as I find all of them to have their individual charms but it's obvious now that Danyal has become her most popular pairing.

Ofc there's also a little recency bias at work here, but I still havent seen any of her other pairings be so hyped when the dramas aired as much as Zanjeerain.

I really hope we get to see both of them work together again.

We really need to boycott this man.

It's good to see that the photoshoot Sajal is getting praised and accolade for - its bill was footed by her only!

Correct me if I'm wrong but Film Updates, one of the biggest movie related accounts on twitter - doesn't very often post about Pakistani stars. So this came as a pleasant surprise to me!

You can see the tweet here: https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/2087588355827704223

Did she see Khushbakth getting bashed on twitter? While I agree with her point completely, I wonder how healthy is it for writers to start engaging in stan twt discourse.

Thoughts?

I'm seeing a certain section of audience try to decry Zanjeerain as a bad script choice for Sajal. But despite its flaws, it's not only proved to be her biggest commercial success so far, but it also gave her the window to perform such a wide range of emotions. In fact, it was her portrayal of grief in episodes 12 and 13 (in addition to the chemistry with Danyal) that drew so many people to watch the show. If I were an actor, I'd be greedy for a role like this.

I like that Rabiya isn't one-dimensional. One thing we tend to see in PTV is FLs having one agenda and that overtaking their whole personality. But we've seen so many shades to this character and I'm enjoying this.

I just hope we see her character responding to the jirga decision in a logical way.