Akhaara is actually doing pretty solid on Green even though it’s past its 25th episode. Same to same team as Abdullah Pur Ka Devdas - writer, director - but Green beat Zee Zindagi
It’s gotten over 4 M views consistently despite multiple plot twists and changes in premise. I haven’t seen APKD but I would imagine Bilal would have pulled a lot more which he didn’t. And Akhaara is pretty much an ensemble cast drama which is working well surprisingly. All characters are written well and it’s fast paced and engaging. Anjum still needs to do better with extras and fight sequences though but the world building has been great. Even a character who was only in 4 episodes has given a memorable performance.
Just goes to show you basically need a good script, effort put into world building and actors all around who can deliver. Same thing happened with Khaie. Over here, from Hina Afridi to waseem abbas to srha Asghar to faraaz Farooqi - people who aren’t even Feroze - truly did exceptional in this. Feroze is actually the weakest link imo but still, he’s brought some audience pull for sure. But people stayed for the plot.
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