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Contemporary Sit-Coms

ahmad hayat September 26, 2004

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#3 Posted by soundmeister on September 29, 2004 7:02:50 am
Monologue is right. Poor guy, no responses? Well, never fear, here I am :)))

Would appreciate you sharing the names of these Friends and Dharma and Greg wannabes. There was a faltoo serial on Zee called ``Hello Friends`` a long time ago which was apparently a copy of Friends. No takers. It sucked.

Personally I think even friends`d be funnier if they dropped the overacting and the sex talk occasionally.
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#2 Posted by mirzajee on September 29, 2004 7:02:50 am

Is Mr.Hayat playing another media critic who likes to comment without specifying any concrete and substantial examples.We might like to understand and agree with him to a certain extent but where do we go from here?
Mr.Hayat does not like to suggest anything but present us with a brief overview of things happening around us.He likes to present us with the evolution of pakistani sit-com but what possible reason can he give for not providing us with comparative analysis of sit-coms being produced in karachi and lahore.He presents a very generalized form of analysis which in many ways would do more harm than good for exisiting pakistani media.
Good effort though .........!!!
MJ
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#1 Posted by haji004 on September 27, 2004 12:17:47 am
This article is the part of a monologue intended as a comment on contemporary media in Pakistan and hence has the essence and style of a Monologue/comment instead of an article. The original monologue is part of a screen play. Subsequent articles will depict my point of view on various dimensions of pakistani media
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