I don’t want anyone to misunderstand me or take it the wrong way 🙏, but since the forum and other social media platforms are places to share our thoughts and opinions 💬, I truly want to know. 🤔
But, Seriously, what is Star Plus’s problem with male leads?
Why do they always cut the male lead scenes in favor of the female leads? 🤦♀️ I’m not against women — I am a woman 💁♀️. I don’t have complexes, and I don’t enjoy belittling anyone. But honestly, this really bothers me. If you’re going to delete the male lead’s scenes just to give more space to the heroine at his expense, then why not just make a show only about her and call it “The Heroine’s Diary”? 📖 Why frustrate us and give us headaches with these silly promotional strategies and by chopping off the male lead’s role?
Why do you force us to care about a couple, market them as a pair ❤️, and then later erase one half of that pair? If that’s the case, then why promote them as a duo in the first place, or even include the male lead at all?
Maybe my point of view sounds strange to some people, like: “What’s her problem with women?” or “How can a woman oppose female roles?” 🙄 But the truth is I’m not against women or their place in stories — quite the opposite. What I object to is the extreme, shallow way we are often portrayed. No one seems to balance our reality properly.
In dramas, women’s roles are exaggerated to two extremes: either the weak, broken, humiliated woman 😢… or the arrogant, pride-consumed, stubborn woman 😤. There’s never a middle ground. It’s always one or the other.
They don’t understand: we love women-centered dramas where the heroine struggles, endures, and tries to “fix” the hero — not because she’s some oppressed “strong woman,” but because we relate to her struggles. She reminds us of ourselves. Not only because she’s a woman, but because of her journey. We live through that journey with her, aiming for what every woman truly wants in marriage and life: to earn the love of the man she has borne everything for. ❤️🔥
We want to experience that journey with both the heroine and the hero — seeing them go from misunderstandings and conflicts 😠➡️❤️ to love. Love that was always there, hidden in the man’s heart, but clouded by his pride and stubbornness. We root for her because we know what we want, and we follow her until she reaches him: the man she wants to spend her life with. The man worth enduring for, until he finally sees her — that hidden part of herself, meant only for him.
A woman only tolerates a man’s weakness or harshness if she’s certain she can heal it — if his anger hides love and a beautiful heart 💞. A man she sees as the one, the only one, worth all the pain. For him, we endure the journey because deep down we believe he’s not what he seems on the surface.
But if he’s a man we don’t love, don’t care about, or believe is unworthy — we don’t even go near. We don’t try, we don’t force ourselves to endure anything. If he’s not the man we want, we fight to escape him. But for the man we truly love and want — we fight for him, we fight to reach him.
That’s why, when we watch women struggling in TV dramas, it’s never just about the woman’s journey. We immerse ourselves in her whole path — from weakness and pain to triumph — not just for herself, but for the love of the man she bore it all for. We want to see both heroine and hero together — their misunderstandings, their clashes, their distance — until that awaited moment comes: when love wins 💕. When her faith in his pure heart is rewarded, and she is finally compensated for all she endured from the beginning.
So please, don’t just give us the heroine’s side. 🙏 I’m a woman too, I have my own struggles — but I also need to see the man’s struggles for me. Women weren’t created to fight only for themselves, but for their other half as well — for the other side of love in life.
We struggle in life for things that mean something — like love 💍 — not just to fight for the sake of fighting. If a woman is going to struggle only for herself, fine, let her live alone — without a partner to share her love, her joy, her daily moments, and even her hardships. But what meaning does life hold for someone completely alone, no matter how strong or brave they are?
Life is partnership: two halves, man and woman. Life is never complete with only one half. No matter how much we struggle or suffer with our other half, he will always be the part we can’t be whole without. 🫶
So, please, bring back dramas that give us joy through balance — where we see both halves struggle together, side by side, with equal space and presence on screen. Don’t cut the male leads’ scenes. Give them space to express themselves too…
Of course, I’m writing this out of deep frustration and disappointment with the constant cutting of Abrar Qazi’s scenes in Kabhi Neem Neem Kabhi Shahad Shahad. 😤 Honestly, Abrar’s scenes are being chopped — do you even realize what you’re doing?! And I’m sure many fans are equally upset about this happening to their own favorite male leads too.
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