With each week, our questions for Main Manto Nahi Ho keep popping up! Here are our thoughts!
1. What would have happened if the creators had removed the Manto-Mehmal love angle from the script?
The drama would become watchable and much more entertaining.
It will in fact, not make a difference to the storyline at all.
2. Can a drama damage a concept?
Yes. Like the portrayal of Manto-Mehmal’s love angle affecting how people would view an alliance where there is an age gap.
If there is a genuine case of a teacher and student falling in love with each other (given the student is of mature age) the society will never accept it, so why bring age into it, and damage a concept previous scripts and storytellers have worked hard at normalising.
3. But the secret meeting of Manto- Mehmal was only a dream sequence, so is it not okay?
No, sometimes a dream or a pretend presentation of desire can be worse than actually showing the scene in the real storyline, playing on the audience’s subliminal emotions and fantasies. And perhaps, portraying it as merely a dream sequence is a way of showing something inappropriate and trying to get away with it under the guise of: “Well, it never really happened, it was a dream.”
But we all saw it and felt it. So the damage has been done.
4, Does the script need to change according to the times and audiences it’s written for?
The script needs to evolve. What worked 10 years ago will not work today. It has to be adapted and consider present audience sensitivities and shifting conversations.
5. Why is everyone telling Manto to confess his love for Mehmal?
First, it was Ms Maria. Now it’s Hazrat as well. Why is every other dialogue obsessed with forcing Manto to confess his love to Mehmal? And why do the makers not get it – that it’s really not that interesting? The conversations surrounding ‘He loves her, he loves her not’ are becoming tedious and monotonous for viewers.
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The cast includes Humayun Saeed, Sajal Aly, Azan Sami Khan, Sanam Saeed, Asif Raza Mir, Saba Hamid, Saba Faisal, Saima Noor, Babar Ali, Usman Peerzada, Musaddiq Malek, and others. Main Manto Nahi Hoon is written by Khalil ur Rehman Qamar, directed by Nadeem Baig, and produced under the Six Sigma Plus and Next Level Entertainment banners. It airs on ARY Digital on Friday and Saturday evening.
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