Written by Samina Ijaz and directed by Ahmad Kamran, Phaans grabbed everyone’s attention due to the strong acting skills of Zara Noor Abbas, Sami Khan, Shehzad Sheikh, Ali Tahir, and Arjumand Rahim.
The story follows the traumatic experience of sexual assault survivor Zeba (Zara Noor Abbas) who is raped by the son of her mother’s employer Sahil (Shahzad Sheikh), yet no one believes her because Sahil is not mentally stable. How she fights back with the help of his well-wishers is what makes this drama watchable, and amongst the best TV series aired this year.
However, the finale did not get the befitting treatment. First, the network changed the drama’s timing from once on Saturdays to twice on weekdays, and then aired the mega episode on the third day of Eid ul Azha, moreover, the finale was neither promoted nor put on YouTube for the international audience.
Hum could have saved the episode for a more reasonable time, linked it with the ongoing case of Noor Muqadam, and even used their morning show to highlight the evil. Instead, they dragged the plot so much so that it pushed viewers to switch to other channels, revealed the obvious twist quite late, and tried to get rid of the drama as if they realized that making it was a mistake.
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Phaans could have been a proper broadcaster, yet it was underplayed on Eid. It is pertinent to mention that Phaans not only gave the required push to Zara Noor Abbas’ career after the setback of Zebaish but also brought back Shahzad Sheikh into the spotlight because of his brilliant performance as Sahil. They were the saving grace of the drama and had the TV channel not been hasty in their decision, it might have ended on a high!
With Noor Muqaddam’s case making it to the headlines, the producers could have cashed in and ended Phaans in a huge way, yet they just left the drama in the middle as if it was something they wanted to get rid of.
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