Zee5 and Zee Zindagi are platforms that are working with Pakistani content creators and artists and Pakistani projects are streaming on these platforms. The latest controversial series Barzakh is one of the projects that came on Zee Zindagi. We got to watch Abdullahpur Ka Devdas and Mrs & Mr Shamim on Zindagi before this and both the shows received love and applause. The latest Barzakh however, got a lot of backlash for queer themes.
From the last few days, everyone in the country had something to say about Barzakh and mostly the comments were towards the negative side. People thought that normalizing queerness is not something they want to see on the media while many were concerned about children consuming such content.
Due to the backlash Team Zindagi and Team Barzakh have decided to pull Barzakh off from YouTube Pakistan. They expressed gratitude to all the fans who liked the show. Zee announced that they honour their viewers and do not want to cause alienation. The show will be pulled off YouTube from August 9th. Barzakh finale will air today.
This is how the internet is reacting to the development:
