While, India is known for its movies and celebrities, people in Pakistan are equally fond of movies and their stars. Even Pakistani movies and dramas have gained a huge audience and following.
What is also interesting about the movies is the language and the different cultures they represent. In these films, there have been actors from all the province of Pakistan.
Here are three superhit romantic Pakistani movies one must watch at least once:
Bin Roye (2015)
Bin Roye is a film, which focuses on a tough love story between Saba Shafiq and Irtaza Ghazanfar. Saba, played by Mahira Khan, is madly in love with Irtaza, portrayed by Humayun Saeed. Irtaza acknowledges her affection but does not actually like her as much as she does.
The film has a twist when Irtaza travels to the USA. During his stay, he meets Saman Shafiq, played by Armeena Rana Khan. They both fall in love and decide to get married.
What Irtaza does not realise is that Saman, in fact, is the elder sister of Saba. Irtaza returns home and Saba is excited to see him. However, Saba is shattered when she finds out that Irtaza and Armeena are married.
Mahira khan won ‘Best Actress’ for the film at the 15th Lux Style Awards in 2016. Applauding the film, Maliha Rehman from Dawn News wrote:
Dobara Phir Se (2016)
Dobara Phir Se revolves around the love story of Zainab Rehman, played by Hareem Farooq and Hammad Farooqui, portrayed by Adeel Hussain.
Zainab is divorced and has a 10-year-old child with her. The film explores the love life of Hammad and Zainab and how they manage to live together. It also describes the life of their friends Vassay (Ali Kazmi) and his wife Saman (Sanam Saeed).
Haniya Aslam, Ali Hamza, Zarish Hafeed, Jimmy Khan, Sara Haider, Arooj Aftab, Rekha Bhardwaj and Shiraz Uppal have sung for tracks of this film.
The film was shot in New York, USA, particularly at Bridge Street Bridge and Lake Mohegan.
Punjab Nahin Jaungi (2017)
Punjab Nahin Jaungi is a romantic comedy, which has a love triangle. Durdana Butt (Urwa Hocane) has a huge crush on Fawad Khagga (Humayun Saeed) and really wants to marry her.
On the other hand, Fawad is barely interested in Durdana. Things take a turn as Fawad is introduced to Amal Dastoor (Mehwish Hayyat) through a picture.
His mother is interested in the marriage proposal and Fawad really likes her. But Amal does not like him due to his rural background.
The film explores the lives and possibilities of Fawad’s attraction towards Amal and Durdana’s love life. There are seven songs in the film by a range of singers including, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Farhan Saeed, Meesha Shafi, Asrar and Shiraz Uppal. The film ran in cinema houses for quite some time. Many critics affiliated with Pakistan print and digital media praised the film.