Recommend some drama with substance . - Page 10

Before you start, keep in mind that a show should be judged by it's director/writer, not the actors. I find a lot of newbies to Pakistani shows restricting themselves to Fawad Khan's dramas, thereby missing out on tons of gems 😊

Here are my personal preference out of a lot of dramas I've watched.

Quaid E Tanhai - Complexities stem in a marriage due to distances (husband working in U.S. while wife stuck at in laws with child) and a commanding and domination mother in law escalate misunderstandings. The drama starts out when the leads are in their late 40s. The wife living in Pakistan with their teenage daughter, while the husband is shown returning home from abroad after 10 years...during which he marries another woman and has a son with her. He returns to bring back his daughter with him to the UK. The drama runs in flashback to show us what happened between the main lead to have caused this separation, anger, misunderstandings, and pain.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwzTIjSuUY

Doraha - Complexities stem from class differences. Wife is status wise from a better, educated and liberal family, while the husband is from a middle class, working background. The Mother in law causes problems because she wanted son to marry her sister's daughter. Beautiful show about trying to make a marriage work despite class differences and the problems adjusting to a new environment.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJN-fHZcF0

Dur E Shahwar - A FANTASTIC show about the problems in marriage today vs our parent's time. Shandana is a working woman dealing with difficulties in her 7 year marriage. She confides her problems with her mother, who enlightens her about the problems she faced in her days.

It is a simple story, but told in such a heart warming and profound way. It's got gems of widsom wrapped within.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jJY1BeGdXus

Khamoshiyan - A woman with a perfect family life faces the shock of her life when she finds out that her husband of 20 years is cheating on her wiht a woman almost their daughter's age.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7oy9YvGy3M

Diya Jale - Nadiya (or Diya, her nickname, reference to candle) is an ambitious teacher who's been engaged to her cousin for 8 years. Over the course of the years, she gets to know some very irritating habits, and arguments lead to the engagement breaking. Unfortuntely, Diya is now 28 years old, and in Pakistan, a woman in this age finds it very difficult to get an arranged marriage coz most look for women in their early 20s. She is eventually pressurized by society and her family to marry a man who's almost 15 years older than her, and has two kids. And that's the least of her worries, since he turns out to be the worst male chuvanisit pig imaginable.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOytSd62S0w

A list of a few about love, friendship, sisters
Daam - A beautiful story about friendship between two women from differnet classes and the misunderstandings that stem when the one from a poorer background falls in love wtih the her much richer best friend's brother.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpSCv0WUCto

Akhari Baarish
A hardhitting drama about prostitutes in Pakistan, and the pimps who are bourne into that environment. This show is a tragedy that shows the hardhsips faced by not just the female prostitutes, but also the trials and obstacles faced by the males who assisst them in their "business". This one might be difficult to understand without subtitles.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaTFHCtyodE

Maat
Story of 2 middle class sisters, one selfless, sacrficing, hardworking. The younger, selfish, arrogant, greedy, always wanting everything that she cannot have. What happens when the younger has her eyes set on her elder sister's fiance (who intiially had a thing for her)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuoNe9KT_4

Mera Naseeb - Pakistani adaptation of the novel "sister of my heart"
Story of two "cousins" and how their fates are tied in a conservative houseful helmed by three women. Nazia and Shazie are suffocating in the restrictions placed upon them, including not being allowed to watch movies in theaters, going out without covering their heads, or being seen in the company of males. The story begins when the two sneak out to watch a movie and bump into Shahbaaz, who instantly falls for Nazia.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXVT7BMtz4

Rehaai - A drama about the sickening concept of child brides. This drama shadows the grief women go through in certain sectors of society where they're forced into marriage at the age of 12/13 years old, with men in their 40s. A strong social message about women's rights and standing up for themselves.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LS30WN9UDJA