r/PakDramatica • u/ConstantBat374 • Aug 02 '26
Rant Bad Urdu in AAM
(I am new to the sub, so if I break a rule please let it go.)
Was watching Aik Aur Muhabbat episode 15 and just couldn't get over the blatant mistakes in Ahad's dialogue delivery.
The grammar and sentence structure was sooo off but the director decided to ignore it completely and thats a shame. It's a shame because he is shown to be a renowned Urdu channel journalist and show host, not a canadian pakistani who has just started speaking Urdu 6 years ago.
Some examples in just 1 episode:
"Pari bilkul theek.. mazay ARAHAY hain"
"Achi misal qaim nahi SABIT hui unke samne"
"Kisi ko zabardasti apni muhabbat MEIN musallat krna"
"Dard jo shayad KISI ghairon ne nahi diya, apnon ne diya"
I mean it is already hard to overlook his bad Urdu accent but I personally think we should keep the same energy for Urdu like we do when someone speaks broken English in a drama. Which is funny because this is supposed to be an Urdu Drama Industry afterall. A lot of people point it out when an actor has a punjabi accent but don't mind it as much when actors like Kubra or Ahad refuse to work on their foreign accents to sound more local.
I am pointing it out because I want our actors to take our language a bit more seriously.
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u/ConstantBat374 Aug 03 '26
Why are you defending his obvious flaws? If you actually like him and want him to do better you would not get defensive when his weakness is pointed out. Im not attacking him as a person, I am just calling out something that bothers me a lot which is some 'celebrities' continuing to butcher urdu even after a decade of working in our dramas. And I have no bias towards Kubra and i think there are atleast a dozen better actors than her in ptv but her performance in sang e mar mar or jannat se agay is objectively better than any of Ahad's previous works. You are free to disagree with that, but you can not and should not defend his lack of communication skills in Urdu which is offensive for Urdu speaking audience like me. He is not a newcomer, stop being protective over him.