Sunn Mere Dil (GEO) #11 - Wahaj Ali, Maya Ali, Hira Mani - Page 33

Originally posted by: 2RsFan

I have stopped watching the show and only watch the Bilal- Humsha scenes . Their dynamic is the only thing which has been constant since the start and I am liking Wahaj-Hira together .

Most questions were also just about Wahaj! It tells you a lot . Majority watched it for him. I hope Wahaj doesn't work with this director again.

Originally posted by: unicornhugs

I like Wahaj and Hira together but I don’t like Bilal and Humsha. She knew he was in pain but never came clean. That isn’t love.

I don’t care if it’s love or hate. Their scenes are the only watchable stuff for me from SMD right now.

The drama was made to cash on Wahaj's hype after TB quickly. The KDH ladies said this, and I agree. Kaddu wanted to lock in Wahaj for a project asap. TB2 was not happening soon, so Kaddu retrieved this dead script from the grave where it was buried. Wahaj doesn't care about the script, but why Haseeb or Maya signed this is beyond me. Haseeb seemed desperate to have a commercial hit and thought having Wahaj and replicating Mann Mayal 2.0 with Maya (minus Sallu's arc) would be his lottery.

The screenplay does not have enough situations or plots to constitute so many episodes. Even before Haseeb's stretching, there are too many repetitions in the script and useless meandering dialogue that dilutes the scene. This might have worked as a film or a miniseries of 10-12 episodes at best, but the content isn't there for 40 episodes. Just count # of scenes here with # of scenes in other dramas. Even compare this with # of scenes in KRQ's other dramas. KRQ writes long scenes, but I've never seen a KRQ drama where a single episode has only four scenes.

The writer has written something else, but instead of telling the story the writer wrote, the makers and marketers have tried to make it into something else without making any required changes to the script. If I focus on the writing alone, this is a commentary on love. It is not a love story, it is not a romance, it is not about chemistry, it is not a story of Bilal's one-sided love, nor is it a story of Bilal and Sadaf. This is a story of how different philosophies of love impact Sadaf's life and journey. Our main protagonist and pov character is Sadaf. The love philosophies of other characters around Sadaf (B, A, H, D) are the push and pull factors that shape her life and journey toward understanding the meaning of love. The Ammar, Dania, and Humsha dynamics are as important to determining Sadaf's trajectory as the Bilsad dynamic. That is why they get equal space in the script.

Bilal's role was never meant for someone like Wahaj. Ammar and Bilal are intended to be played by actors of equal standing (but not at the level of Wahaj), while Sadaf is designed to be played by a star of Wahaj's standing. SMD is similar to Mannjali, which KRQ also wrote. In it, Mehwish Hayat played the Sadaf character. Mikaal played the Ammar character, and Faris Shafi played the Bilal character. That's the casting SMD's script needed.

Execution and direction are pathetic. If the writing is terrible, the director made it ten times worse. This script needed a restrained and contemporary execution, but instead, Haseeb went OTT, sensationalistic, dated melodrama. Instead of emotions coming out and hitting us on the head with their authenticity, we get overwhelmed by flimsy nighties, alcohol, cringe intimacies, eye locks, nibba-nibbi staring, and beauty shots. There is forced Hitchcockian air with the BGM when neither the situation nor the dialogues call for it. The long, drawn-out scenes with so many mundane details that are over-emphasized just kill the scene's impact. The slo-mo dialogue delivery, where everyone says every word slowly and with breaks in between, is unbearable. No one can connect with the emotion with such a pathetic delivery. The long pauses, the zooms, the useless, irrelevant filler scenes, the slow pace, the poor editing, the dull, gloomy, and ugly filters, the lighting, etc. - none makes the show palatable to watch. And for the director to act like he made some masterpiece and is some SLB is enough to make me want to punch him in the face.

Huge performance issues. Even Wahaj overacts in several scenes. Maya was good in scenes with her dad and brother, but her dialogue delivery has been the worst. No one speaks as slowly and breaks up her sentences as much as she does. The way Maya played Sadaf and some poor editing choices made Sadaf look bipolar instead of conflicted and ambivalent. Wahaj's depiction of alcoholism never rose above that of a caricature. Whereas 2-to-3 scenes of BA sulking and brooding would have been impactful, having 20 to 30 scenes with the same three expressions that rarely serve any narrative purpose brings down Wahaj's performance. Ammar and Dania - the less said, the better. Neither the director nor the actors could understand or get in the characters' skins.

Sorry to say, but this whole project from A to Z smacks of insincerity. No one wanted to tell a good story or the story they had on paper. Everybody wanted to get something else out of it.

I liked Bilal and Humsha better than Bilal and Sadaf. I think Hira and Wahaj had more potential from the last scene. For me, Hira outshined Maya.

Originally posted by: chai_chatter

Most questions were also just about Wahaj! It tells you a lot . Majority watched it for him. I hope Wahaj doesn't work with this director again.

Yes, script is must. That would be his first step. He needs a show with more screen space. For me, playing Murtasim was one of his best. He needs a show like TB , where he was the main lead, not a side character.

Originally posted by: NutellaWaffle

promoted nahi still promoting using wahaj maya names. Most of smd related questions to haseeb are about bilsad story , uska confession , happy ending, etc which audiences are waiting that story will start. Some even asked marriage ke baad scenes lmao .. they don’t know marriage itself will happen in last episode.

i still don't think this show will have a typical ending. it will be something unusual and unexpected.

haseeb just wants to cash wahaj's popularity. don't believe everything he says. 75% of the show has already been telecasted.

Leave this SMD moots and let's dance let's dance

Why are we dancing ???