Main Manto Nahi Hoon is the talk of the town. All the characters in this drama have stood out and fans have a lot to say after each episode. The performances are getting good reviews but at the same time, there is a lot of criticism coming on the alleged teacher-student romance which has been shown developing in the story.
Main Manto Nahi Hoon has garnered quite a lot of criticism on this romance between Manto and mehmal. Fans are not liking it much especially when they have shown a huge age-difference between the two. Humayun Saeed was a guest on Maliha Rehman’s show and he has addressed it. He was quite clear about this vision.
The actor said that do we not have teacher-student love stories in real life? He added people fall in love and they even get married. He also went on to say that this is how the story is written and they have shown why this infatuation from Mehmal’s side happened. She was a girl who lives in an environment full of violence. She then sees a man who is so mellow, he cooks for himself and finds it interesting. This is why she has felt that attraction.
He added that they could have shown a romance track from the start and people would have accepted it that way. Here they have shown just a crush at this time which is happening because of Mehmal’s circumstances in Main Manto Nahi Hoon:
