“Nadia Khan desperately needs to see a psychiatrist. Her terrible acting ruined one of the dramas I had written, and now she has the gall to judge others’ acting skills, ridiculing them rather than offering constructive criticism. Think of it like a monkey with a matchstick.”

— Saima Akram Chaudhry, screenwriter

“Saima Akram Chaudhry told me to see a psychiatrist so I did! Diagnosed with a severe case of ‘truth syndrome’ — aka practising free speech and calling out bad writing. There’s no cure for my honesty, but there is a prevention for you: write better scripts and fix your production errors.”

— Nadia Khan, TV host, actor and drama critic

“Indians don’t want our content to be available on Netflix.”

— Faysal Quraishi, actor

“Netflix approached ARY to give them content, but we refused.”

— Salman Iqbal, President and CEO of the ARY Digital Network

Published in Dawn, ICON, July 26th, 2026