Sunn Mere Dil

Where to begin with this awful drama. The rating of 5 is only because visually it was nice to look at. That's about it.

The good actors could not save it from the fact that the writing is horrible. The misogynistic views of the writer are crystal clear, where the women are so stunningly dumb that they can walk away from a potentially great relationship into the arms of someone they have clearly shown contempt for (I'm still actually completely puzzled why, except that she's a woman and must be dumb). Or the women are just conniving home wreckers or rumor spreaders.

The only worthy character, of course, is the alpha male, who is so tragically misunderstood. All his womanizing and drinking was of course the result of a woman's betrayal. He stays stalwart even though there's a tempest of badmouthing, wishy washy, unfaithful women around him.

You'll think all the characters are mentally ill, maybe bipolar. Because of the stunningly stupid dialogue and behavior reversals. Let's not even get started with the really weird romanticizing of suicide as a test of true love. I'm actually afraid this will be a horrible message to young people in love.

Save yourself the aggravation. Watch something else.

Such an old fashioned, slow paced drama, pathetic screenplay, every character speaks so very slow, as if everyone of them is sick. Even the dialogues are pretty okay, doesn't show any 'Khalil ur Rehman prowess'. Khalil sahab has this propensity of showing tragic, more often sudden, deaths in his stories, which is indeed an irksome repetition.

The drama has the vibes of 90's bollywood movies where almost after every dialogue a sound of flute kicks in to intensify the scene unnecessarily. Acting is nice, wardrobe is good, cast looks good but this is what happens when the director and writer aren't up to the mark. Good actors can't run and win this race on their own. Not recommended at all.

Writing this review after utter frustration of watching the first 10 episodes. Never expected this cringe fest from Khalil. Extremely slow screenplay, cringe dialogues, very slow dialogue delivery, loud background music which is making hard to hear the dialogues, pathetic acting and expressions from Maya who is with over makeup. Imagine the female lead takes 5 seconds to say hello after picking call, this is the pace of the show. After watching the extremely well written KHKT and Fahad who gave a masterclass in natural acting , this drama disappointed me no end.. especially my fav Wahaj also shows he is only a directors actor and cannot fine tune the expressions on his own. His star power and fangirls are the ones who are giving these positive comments under the episodes on YT. Else it's a cringe fest and with those dialogues it cannot be watched with Family.

The drama, clearly intended for a 1960s audience, is poorly written and constructed. It makes unnecessary excessive attempts to make the scenes and situations sad, which feels forced rather than genuinely moving. The writer lacks the imagination to bring anything new to the drama's storyline, recycling the same plot and situations found in countless other productions. Also, the production team's unsuccessful attempts to stretch out scenes unnecessarily and add slow, melancholic music to create emotion fall flat. Today's audience expects real-life, relatable situations and issues, not the same old love triangles and overused romantic plots.

Most of the characters of this play are projected as thankless. Starting with Mother, daughter, brother, friends and Sadaf's husband-Omar. If Bilal had done so much for Sadaf family , nobody even thanked him properly and ignored him on every count. Probably some sort of consideration should have been given to characters who deserve thanks. From acting perspective, all the main actors have really given their best performance to this play.

There are so many twists and turns in the play which keep viewers glued to the screen. But we still feel script writers should not show middle class families as thankless.