Pakistani dramas are doing great as far as TRPs and YouTube views are concerned but the content has taken a major hit in the last few years. Mostly the dramas are made from the same love triangles and sisters rivalry formulas and there is a lot of toxicity involved in 99% of the scripts. A lot as been said about this problem with scripts in the last few years but nothing has been done.
Ali Safina is an actor who has been a part of the industry for years and he has given some very strong performances. He was a guest on Fuchsia where he exposed the reality of many drama writers and how scripts are being written by content teams and why is the situation so bad.
He said that many writers have teams and they just slap name on different scripts after refurbishing old stories. Moreover the drama is shooting when 7-8 episodes are in and the writer is never given proper time or enough money to deliver a compact script. He also shared that writers are not paid good money and they give bad scripts in return. He added that same writers have written good dramas for Green Entertainment as they were paying good money.
This is what he shared:
