Did ARY just encourage women to accept childhood marriage agreements with its Mann-e-Iltaja teaser? We expected better from the channel that gave us Cheekh.
After sharing moving and though-provoking drama serials like Dil Mom Ka Diya and Cheekh, why did ARY just describe a character accepting a childhood marriage agreement as ‘practical‘?
“Zainab Raja as Maheen is the younger sister who is practical in life. She faces a childhood marriage commitment by her parents with her cousin.”
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ARY described the plot of the drama where the middle child, Maheen (Zainab Raja), is forced to marry her cousin Moeez (Taqi Ahmed) who was engaged to her since childhood.
“Taqi Ahmed as Moeez is Maheen’s cousin who is engaged to her since childhood and now they are forced to marry each other.”
However, the teaser reveals that it is Hania (Amara Chaudhry), the youngest sister, who is ultimately being forced to marry Moeez.
If Mann-e-Iltaja is a recycled sob story (which it probably is) then Maheen probably died and Hania was sent in as a replacement. So there goes all her ambition of doing something in life.
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The drama serial is about the sacrifices of three sisters. The purpose of these sacrifices isn’t clear in the teasers. However, the first teaser gives us a glimpse of Hadia’s story, a typical saas-bahu saga. Hadia (Mehwish Qureshi) is married to Anayat (Kunwar Nafees) and hasn’t given her mother-in-law a heir yet. So what could she be missing out on? Death maybe.
But Inayat wastes no time in bringing home another bride for his mother Kashaf (Eman Zaidi).
While Pakistani audiences were demanding new content because we’re bored of watching re-runs, this is not what we meant.
Does recycling the same old storylines even count as new content? Even if we found this entertaining once upon a time, the repetition of such sob stories has made these dramas so predictable.
