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Karachi, Pakistan – 18 March 2025
1. Right pan shot from camera to actors shooting at a set for a play
2. Various of veteran actor Khaled Anam and other actors performing
3. Technicians adjusting light
4. An actress touching up her makeup
5. Cameraman changing lens
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Karachi, Pakistan – 17 March 2025
6 SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Khaled Anam, senior actor:
“Our dramas are more popular because we conclude the story like they do in Bollywood movies. Their films end in two to three hours. We do the same in our dramas. We know how to end the story. Their (Indian ) dramas go on and on and on and then their plays are very unnatural. People can relate to our plays. In their plays, women are always heavily decked up. Yes, it is their culture. But a common woman doesn’t wear the type of clothes that their actresses are made to wear.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Karachi, Pakistan – 18 March 2025
7. Right pan of scene
8. Various of shooting, actors and cameraman working
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Karachi, Pakistan – 17 March 2025
9 SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Khaled Anam, senior actor:
“The problem with India is that their reality shows, their educational shows, their quiz shows they are all Bollywood based, we sell drama, What Bollywood is to them, our dramas are to us.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Karachi, Pakistan – 18 March 2025
10. Various shots of actors rehearsing their lines
11. Cutaway cameraman
12. Anam and Shaheen Khan practising their lines
13. Various of actors performing
14. Cameraman and technicians getting ready for a shot
15 SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Shaheen Khan, actress:
“Our dramas do bring peoples of the two countries together. There are Indians who follow our dramas religiously. It means the people are close. That’s why they watch our dramas. I receive a lot of emails and phone calls from India. We are close because of our dramas.”
16. Director Saqib Zafar Khan and actors discussing scenes
17. Khan explaining the scene to Shaheen
18. Various Khan checking placement
19. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Saqib Zafar Khan, Director:
“Art knows no boundaries, be it Pakistan or India or anywhere else. Of course, art can unite people. If we try, India and Pakistan can come very close through this medium. There are few cultural differences between us. There are a lot of similarities. If it happens through dramas, it will be great. Artists of the two countries should work together. Their director and our actors or our director and their actors. That will be a very good combo.”
20. Various of light set up
STORYLINE:
Actors sit together on a couch, rehearsing their lines under the watchful eye of the director and film crews.
This is the set of the Pakistani drama “Adhi Bewafai,” or “Half Infidelity” — one of what some in other nations would call “soap operas.” But these dramas, it turns out, are not just for Pakistanis.
Realistic settings, natural dialogue and almost workaday plots about families and marriages make Pakistani dramas a hit with viewers at home and abroad — especially in the neighboring country that split with Pakistan in 1947 and is its nuclear arch-rival today: India.
Television, it seems, is succeeding where diplomacy sometimes can’t.
Several thousand people work in Pakistan’s drama industry; the country produces 80 to 120 shows a year, each one a source of escapism and intrigue.
They offer Indians a tantalizing glimpse into life across the border — and manage to break through decades of enmity between the two governments.
AP Video by Muhammad Farooq
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