With a growing interest in online content, the local industry is also exploring the digital medium. Starting from Wajahat Rauf’s web series, titled Enaaya that released on Eros Now earlier this year, multiple web series are expected to come out later this year. One of them is producer Sadia Jabbar’s seven-part online series, Shameless Proposals, which highlights the process of desi proposal system that is quite common in our part of the world.
Directed by Hunny Haroon and written by Saji Gul of O Rangreza fame, the official trailer of Shameless Proposals was released recently and explores what a girl has to go through to get a decent proposal; the good thing is that it’s treated in a lighthearted manner. It also highlights how important it is for a girl to be perfect in order to get married.
The almost 40-second trailer features a cast of young actors and starts off with a girl saying that she can do everything from making all kinds of roti (bread) and other household chores, depicting that typical demands and expectations are much more important than a girl’s educational or social background. Moreover, the trailer shows that the girl will come across seven proposals, each with a different demand, and the quest of picking one suitor out of the lot.
Though the trailer promises to provide some comic relief, we’ll have to wait and watch till the first episode comes out on YouTube on March 29, 2019.
