Bollywood actress Seema Pahwa is also a fan of Pakistani dramas

Indian actress and director Seema Bhargava Pahwa has added her voice to the growing praise for Pakistani dramas.

Pahwa appeared as a guest on the ‘Hindi Rushi Podcast’ along with her husband, Manoj Pahwa. The host, Neha Singh, asked Seema about her views on Pakistani dramas, asserting that the Pakistani drama industry is doing much better than films, the proof being the Indian platform Zee TV’s collaboration with Pakistani artists.

Seema Pahwa replied, “Web series or serials, whatever you want to call them, I feel that their stories are exceptional. Besides that, the language they use is something my ears long to hear, the Urdu language, which has become so rare these days.”

“The way they use the language there [in Pakistan] and the level of detail in relationships is incredible. We can’t even imagine such detailing in our films or our serials. The small, intricate details. They create these characters with such beauty, layer upon layer, and I wish we could perform something like that. My heart aches for the kind of writing that would allow us to produce such beautiful work if we had it here,” she elaborated.

The host asked about her favourite Pakistani drama, which she named ‘Sang-e-Mar Mar’.

“The most beautiful aspect of it was the negative character, the daughter-in-law. I have never seen a song for a negative character before. I’ve always seen songs for heroines or positive characters, not for negative characters. They showed that even a negative character has pain”, she said.

“If you think about it, nobody wants to be negative. It’s often circumstances that make them that way or some grudge. But the character is still a person. When her child dies, and she imagines the child with a piece of cloth and sleeps with it, the song they gave her makes you cry. Even though she has done terrible things, when her mother’s love makes her cry, you start crying too. That’s the beauty of writing and making: you can add emotion even to a negative character. You can’t get more detailed than this; it’s amazing,” she added.