Iqtidar

Honestly, first I thought that it would be a simple trashy romance ptv shows us. But even though, it is a trashy romance, it's better than what I expected. Mehrunisa's character has me hooked, Shahnawaz is a looser in love and I am so down for them. The visuals of this drama are out of this world, Anmol Baloch and Ali raza's chemistry is legit. I think Shahnawaz will be the reason of saman shah's downfall because he's already guilty of using mehrunisa because of his mother.

Whoever's saying that the show is trash is blind and just bitter about it doing good being under a newly developed channel, organically.

UPDATE ON THE REVIEW- taking back my ratings because the amount of screen time, the main couple, due to whom this drama is hit in the first place is 3 minutes out of 70 minutes in 2 episodes and it's absolutely laughable. No focus on main leads and the entire show is only being focal towards the side characters, this is my current rating of the show. As the show seems to be made for side characters with no plot and screen time for the main couple.

Review before- Anmol and Ali are truly an amazing example of chemistry gone right, writing could have a billion times better though, I understand what way they're going with the plot but I wish it was one where the hero knew what he was doing, I feel like his character could have explored the complexity of his emotions in so many other ways instead of giving his time to the fiancé he never cared for before, the Shahnawaz shah who wanted to focus on his career so much before suddenly being disinterested goes against everything he stood for and the core of his character in return has been lost.

And mehrunnisa, my girl is everything a girl could dream to be, stood for everything she believed in, had self respect be the core of her character, never let men lead and always formed her own way in her life even though she was discouraged for it all her life, her suddenly dedicating her life to fix a mama's boy wasn't what her character stood for. It was too out of character for her. I hope she goes back to work again and gain back the spine mehru had that we all adored. I still don't understand what they're trying to show between the couple because their scenes and emotions are all over the place. It's scene after scene instead of processing their respective interaction first, I truly hope it goes in a right way and the story is not rushed because then it will look too incompetent to everything we hope from this show and specially what we expect from a chemistry like the leads have.

Wish we could see more of mehshah, that's my only complain with the story, I wish the story didn't seem sidelined to the main characters of the show themselves, there's too much focus on the side characters and in return it feels like the episodes are shorter because there are barely any scenes of the main characters, hope the director sees the reviews and give more importance to the main leads instead of illogical and unnecessary side characters scenes, Ali and Anmol have unique chemistry with lots of potential that could do justice to their characters, hope that chemistry is not wasted and used properly.

Enemies to lovers trope is top notch. First Pakistani female lead who's shown to be an epitome of women empowerment but with 'logic', if you know what I mean. The chemistry is fire and the story just ignores something, I am in love with the main leads. They did justice to their roles.

Rafay track is unnecessary, I feel like. Meanwhile for amal, I am having second thoughts because if she turns into a villain now it'll be interesting. I mean imagine her making mehrunisa get kidnapped and shahnawaz getting crazy for her.

Green entertainment is doing a good job with portraying strong female leads and should continue to do so.

We did not start this show for urooj and rafay, we did not start this show for Bijan and Amal, we started this show for Shahnawaz and mehrunnisa and only Shahnawaz and mehrunnisa, I thought long and hard about why there is no character development in shah's character then I realised he has to have some screen time to be able to develop his character, how are we supposed to keep our interest if you show nothing of the people we started the show for, the entire episodes are just shippable and full of fillers that has nothing to do with the main couple, no one wants to watch urooj and rafay, the most forced characters in the history of television, show mehshah's story or just shut down this show.