{"id":264052,"date":"2020-06-01T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=264052"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:08:45","slug":"why-is-fawad-chaudhry-lobbying-against-ertugrul-ghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/why-is-fawad-chaudhry-lobbying-against-ertugrul-ghazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Fawad Chaudhry Lobbying Against Ertugrul Ghazi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been plenty of people hating on <strong><em>Ertugrul Ghazi<\/em><\/strong> on Pakistan Television. And now, even the Federal Minister of Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry himself, has also aired his grievances against Ertugrul now. People can&#8217;t help but wonder why.<\/p>\n<p>Some Pakistani artists were irked by the success of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4320258\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Turkish period drama<\/a> and complained about how its a threat to the local industry, demanding support for local artists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Surprised on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTVHomeOfficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PTVHomeOfficial<\/a> taking pride on other countries productions,you guys must focus on Pak productions otherwise foreign dramas ll ruin Pak productions,its always cheap to import foreign dramas but this ll have devastating long term effect on our own programming<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fawadchaudhry\/status\/1266962071037661184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/imran-khan-wants-you-to-watch-this-turkish-drama-about-a-famous-islamic-poet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imran Khan Wants You to Watch This Turkish Drama About a Famous Islamic Poet<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Fawad Chaudhry tries to justify his stance<\/h3>\n<p>Fawad says obtaining rights for foreign dramas, dubbing them, and then airing them is cheaper than producing original dramas. He says that continuing with this trend can have a &#8216;<em>devastating long term effect on our own programming<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>The question now becomes &#8211; is Fawad Chaudhry lobbying for local artists? This move doesn&#8217;t make much sense when it is the Federal Minister&#8217;s own Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) government that introduced the PG period drama as an alternative to typical soaps. In fact, it was Prime Minister Imran Khan himself who wanted people to watch this series.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when netizens called out the Federal Minister on the lack of variety in local productions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why not?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fawadchaudhry\/status\/1266967979029340160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Level includes the story line too. Pakistani Actors are very mature but what about the filthy content. Never i have seen a drama with such positive islamic history made in Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Osama Khan Tanoli (@osamakhantanoli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamakhantanoli\/status\/1267181521288466440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/UsamaAjmalAbba1\/status\/1266962726586322944<\/p>\n<p>As for the threat of foreign content invading Pakistani TV, people pointed out how <strong><em>Ertugrul Ghazi<\/em><\/strong> breathed new life into PTV.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chaudha16921397\/status\/1266962892169121792<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZAgha1\/status\/1267077375965171713<\/p>\n<p>Many viewers say that foreign content didn&#8217;t destroy the local industry in the past, then why would it now? Healthy competition is what we need to nudge local producers to do better.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don\u2019t recall Airwolf or Knight Rider destroying Hasina Moin\u2019s creative process or Asif Reza Mir\u2019s delivery or Shakeel\u2019s baritone. <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s with this insecurity now? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/byVQ81M6bA\">https:\/\/t.co\/byVQ81M6bA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mosharraf Zaidi \ud83c\udf41 (@mosharrafzaidi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mosharrafzaidi\/status\/1267050089790537728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/ptv-sets-breaks-youtube-viewership-records-with-ertughul-ghazi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PTV Breaks YouTube Viewership Records with Ertugrul Ghazi<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The part about Fawad lobbying against Ertugrul when it was Prime Minister Imran Khan who pushed for the move, has people in fits.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChAmirZkhan\/status\/1266986789094424578<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So this donkey proved that he is fatal.He is fatal for whole the nation.He is deployed upon an agenda.He has no obj over Hollywood &amp; Bollywood&#39;s production on Pak&#39;s channels but he&#39;s in trouble upon Islamic historical documentaries by Turkey.Soon he&#39;ll hv obj over<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImranKhanPTI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u00c7ehan Sakandar \u2b55 (@MajAhmedARP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MajAhmedARP\/status\/1267015885488828420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fawadchaudhry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fawadchaudhry<\/a> usually talk like he is the most intelligent person in this whole country and thn suddenly he acts as the most dumbest person of the whole world \ud83e\udd13\ud83e\udd2a<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IK_forever\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0\ud83d\udc9a (@SmileandShine0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmileandShine0\/status\/1267161373580177412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So what is Fawad Chaudhry really getting at here? We sure would like to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been plenty of people hating on Ertugrul Ghazi on Pakistan Television. And now, even the Federal Minister of Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry himself, has also aired his grievances against Ertugrul now. People can&#8217;t help but wonder why. Some Pakistani artists were irked by the success of the Turkish period drama and complained about how its a threat [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/why-is-fawad-chaudhry-lobbying-against-ertugrul-ghazi\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":264093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"This is deeply puzzling.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fawad-Chaudry-Ertugrul-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fawad-Chaudry-Ertugrul-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fawad-Chaudry-Ertugrul.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","TV &amp; Film"],"title_text":"Why is Fawad Chaudhry Lobbying Against Ertugrul Ghazi?","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,1297&exclude=264052","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264052"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=264052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}