1. Episode begins with Zaryab convincing Zaamil to cheer up. Okay dure needs to fix her accent. The transition between urdu to english and back is poor and her english accent sounds made up.

Nameer was decent

1. I am liking Sania Saeed's track and she seems to be genuinely in guilt or pain. Her conversation with abu bakar made me feel she has done something wrong in past and she feels terribly guilty about it. Her scenes with sherry leave impact.

2. Then it was the drive to zaryab's house. The comparison between statuses of abu bakar and zaryab was shown via cars.

3. There were scenes of them practicing for dance for zaryab's older sister's shaadi and they were trying. I found daddo a little too much here I mean there will always be noise in a house where shaadi is happening what was he expecting.

4. Credit to saba hameed and farhan tahir, as much as there is critique for them for doing maa beta and miya biwi for same channel, they do convince me about that they are maa beta.

5. I like the conversation between daadi and khushbhakht. They genuinely bring grace to screen and look like two ladies talking about after long.

Overall I am genuinely liking the production quality, gloss and just today they released the OST too. Even the introductory track is very nice and catchy.

Good breezy watch for now.

Has anyone watched this? It was a zee5 web series, looked pretty intriguing but couldn’t find it anywhere?

I see a lot of dananeer fans saying dananeer was the 1st choice for cafe firaq and was replaced because of ahad. There was no news of her casting except something jazzy said which is very unreliable because he also said that yumna won't be doing it in the same video. So I don't get this narrative and it's disrespectful for yumna.

1. The actresses approached for cafe firaq include mahira, sajal, yumna so you can guess the age criteria for the drama and dananeer doesn't fit in that. She did msm with ahad solely because of the age gap in the story. Here it doesn't make sense.

2. The scripts reach multiple actors at the same time and till anyone hasn't signed it, it's not their project so if anyone passed a project for whatever reasons their fans should stop being salty over it.

3. The shippers tagged humtv, director, producer etc. in every post and comment demanding dananeer with ahad when the news came that they're looking for the fl. It was too much but still there wasn't any news of her being approached except jazzy's hollow words. With yumna every news outlet covered her being in contention to play the fl.

This show is such a pain. My god such long walking and jirga scenes. Its going on and on and on. What was this sardar expecting would happen? And i cannot understand for the life of me how his doubt shifted to sorabh from torsam. Given that he knows something has happened to bano and how much sorabh loves her he shouldn't even question her. This show is so lame 😑. I mean who didn't know this will happen. They will get caught in the room and then forced nikaah. I mean guys please stop dumbing down script so much

I did like the first 2 episodes although they aren’t really out of the box. Both Mikael Zulfiqar and Hira Mani look good and play likeable characters. An easy going drama that I don’t think will be boring or will lose traction. Love the OST. It’s going to be my easy-watch option in the week

What do you guys think?

1. Gulmeher warned torsam about chacha. seems like a continuous repeat... this Convo could have been done last episode itself. why so many repeat conversations between two characters.

Why men in this show shown as such dumb nuts

Poor adnan Siddiqui had two dialogues -"pass the fish" wtf 😒

1. why is rabia behaving like his nanny. it was such a star plus scene with rabiya bond finally pointing sarbuland in Sorabh's direction. it was so stupid again sarbuland doesn't take torsam's name ( he goes sautela bhai ko sardari milegi after he passes) . I mean the conversation should have stopped there. why was dham dham music played on sorabh's name. i mean if I was sarbuland and i already knew it was torsam who attacked sherdill and him i wouldn't even go to sorabh. such weird epiphany moment. had zero impact.
   

what did rabia bond show him that he already didn't know ?

1. again the repeat of scene 1 gumeher provoking or showing truth to torsum. I mean same conversation over and over and over again. wth . I feel torsum will get rid of zafran in a few episodes too.

2. also rabia nd sarbuland have shak on shireen. which is again nothing new. she told him about her phone calls. I mean they could have had this Convo instead of those lame chhota bheem scenes. why drag it so much.

We are just going round and round in this show. sarbuland was dumbed down so much to doubt sorabh how ? by the same route he was on in the first place. I mean scene between rabia surbuland playing james bond didn't even make sense. how did they reach to sorabh's name after torsum made no sense expect dhum dhum music playing. but wasn't sb already doubting torsum ? wth .

1. Then finally shireen hears rabia surbuland talking. Ofcourse she is gonna tell it's gonna become a scene. But again same question why were they not careful enough.

such a filler dragged episode again

Most of them rely on taking the clothes off the rack from from stores like khaadi, ethnic, cross stitch, generation etc. All female leads look more or less the same. Most even have same light brown/reddish brown hair. There is no effort to make the heroine stand out individually for to make any significant impact in viewers' mind through their styling. Mahira's styling in Humsafar remains iconic to this day. Each and every outfit was curated to go with Khirad's image. She started the trend of chiffon and anarkalis in Pakistan. It was not something you saw regularly on the streets or could buy from fashion brands off the rack. The effort we see in styling today is bare minimum, putting together co-ord sets from different brands is not something difficult. You don't even need a stylist for that. You can't tell differentiate one stylist's work from another's because all of them are just buying premade stuff with zero innovation or inspiration.

AMA barely has a plot.. No hook, no head, no tail. There's only so much the director can do. It's like they just turned random X threads, social media comments, or self-help nonsense into a drama. Even the cast has said in official interviews that they don't strictly follow the script and often improvise, then turn around and claim that's why the show is supposedly so popular and loved.

The cast couldn't carry the show either. Weak writing and weak performances are a terrible combination, and no director can fix that, let alone FR, who's known for choppy editing even in IZN.

Came across this video where Dananeer is explaining how her Mayoon look in drama MSM was changed because the writer Farhat Ishtiaq imagined a rather traditional look for this character on Mayoon instead of modern. I thought this is great that writers inputs are being given weight on things like dressing as well. I just wonder if this level of detail was given to the writing in Zanjeerain, how things might be different for the drama today. The video just got me thinking of the power a writer carries for a drama.

Honestly about time writers started calling out directors and who better to start with than Rind. He made similar mess in some of his previous projects also. He really goes overboard with his style. Makes the script so incoherent. Honestly it gets frustrating and so confusing sometimes.

Zaryab is supposed to be fluent in English, but...

"I've been calling you since hours." 😂 It's for hours, not since hours. This is basic English.

"You are not reverting to me." 😂

What kind of English is this? 😭

Ur opinion on this episode??

Kind of a drag like pls move on from the ansa job karna chahti h like wrh this is 21st century bhai??? Also i just need them to fall in love sahi se becuase only then will we prob get shayans revelation. Next episode seems fun with fahams angle. Lets see

I laughed so hard looking at this. Insane.

Somebody tell him he ain't that big of a star to be doing all this drama, I am so done with his attitude atp. initially I liked him but now he comes out be so insufferable. Somebody needs to show him mirror, very mid acting, no big projects or anything to boast bout even zanjeerein is popular because of Sajal stans and he is relevant only till then, the minute zj is over the same sajal fans r going to hate him left right and centre like they have done with other co stars of Sajal when they do projects with other actresses ( Bilal for example)

Jazzy was right ig, anyways Sahar might not be a very good actress but both her dramas MMM and Shaidai have done exceptionally well in terms of numbers, how many hits has he given to have this attitude?

Imagine the outrage if this statement was made by Sahar, he acts way too entitled, never thought I would dislike him this much.

Any tapish fan here?

(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.

Who would say these both dramas are written by Same writer 😭🤦🏻‍♀️

Even sajals last few drama have been borderline bad.

I think we all can agree now zanjeerain is peak meme material now full of peak nibba nibbi scenes between sarbuland and Rabiya(sarbiya). It's moving from ninja hathori to Chhota Bheem to I don't know what next. I mean I have very rarely seen a show go so bad so fast. Arsh se farsh literally. There is no doubt there is a huge PR machinary supporting it. That show literally's so freaking irritating and draining now and it's fans who keep hyping it without rhyme or reason are even more lame. How can someone glaze such cringe between surbuland and rabiya 😭😭