Parizaad: Indian Designer Manish Malhotra Uses Drama’s Soundtrack In A Campaign

Our main man, Ahmed Ali Akbar picked up on it.

Drama serial Parizaad has been picking up praise for its great dialogues and Ahmed Ali Akbar’s acting as Parizaad. It seems like not only the audiences from Pakistan are loving it but it’s also making its way across the border. Celebrated Indian designer Manish Malhotra used the instrumental version of Parizaad’s OST for his latest collection campaign.

Manish Malhotra recently shared a video of his new collection on his Instagram account and startled the fans more for the music than the clothes. The main lead of the drama Ahmed Ali Akbar was fast enough to point out this and commented with the help of his Instagram handle,

Where some of the people are proud of this moment that our super hit drama is getting noticed globally but some of the netizens are greatly criticizing it. Have a look at some of the comments below.

It is important to share that the designer used the official score in an instrumental form, however, a majority of Instagram users in Pakistan don’t have access to Reels and can’t open them. Because of that, they were not able to see the credit. The feature gave credit to Waqar Ali, the Parizaad’s song composer.

More about Parizaad:

Written by Hashim Nadeem. Parizaad follows a dark-skinned boy and how he’s ridiculed and humiliated over his skin color. The drama serial highlights how our society judges people largely based on their appearance, and treats them accordingly. Rather than judge them by their conduct.