Dananeer Mobeen’s 2026 has been defined by two roles that look strikingly alike on paper. In May, she made her film debut in Mera Lyari as Afsana Baloch, a girl from Karachi’s Lyari who dreams of playing professional football while her father stands in her way. In October, she returned to prime-time television in HUM...
Mahira Khan has publicly praised her young co-stars Aena Khan and Fazal Hussain after watching their performance as the younger versions of her own character in Mitti De Baway, a gesture that has added to the growing buzz around the two newcomers just two episodes into Green Entertainment’s big-budget period drama. Taking to her Instagram,...
Every few years, a Pakistani drama produces a character that viewers recognise so immediately that the conversation stops being about the show. Zamil, played by Nameer Khan in ARY Digital’s Dar-e-Nijaat, has become one of those characters. His scenes with Zaryab, played by Dur-e-Fishan Saleem, have been discussed less as plot and more as testimony,...
Pakistani television has never been short of famous pairings. It has, however, been fairly consistent about what those pairings are supposed to do: make audiences want them to end up together. Mitti De Baway, which premiered on Green Entertainment on September 23, opens by doing something different. Its two leads, Mahira Khan and Wahaj Ali,...
For most of its run, Dar-e-Nijaat has let Abu Bakar exist as a kind of narrative safe harbour. While Zamil spirals through hypocrisy and Zaryab absorbs one betrayal after another, Abu Bakar has simply stood still, calm, unbothered, endlessly patient. He doesn’t raise his voice. He doesn’t judge her past. He shows up. For an...