Mohabbat Episode 13: 7 million views, but viewers call the story old
Feroze Khan and Nawal Saeed's Mohabbat pulled 7 million views for Episode 13 in two days, yet fans are mocking its plot holes. What they are saying.
Light spoilers for Mohabbat up to Episode 13.
Geo’s Mohabbat is doing something unusual: winning huge numbers and losing the argument at the same time. Episode 13, which went up on Har Pal Geo’s YouTube channel on Monday, 9 November, had passed 7 million views within two days. Reviewit.pk says the serial has crossed 350 million YouTube views across its 13 episodes. Yet the comments under it, and the reviews, are some of the harshest any big drama has had this season.
The story so far
Mohabbat, written by Shafia Khan and directed by Asad Jabal for 7th Sky Entertainment, follows Yahya (Feroze Khan), a rich heir who falls for Asiya (Nawal Saeed), a middle-class office worker. Har Pal Geo’s own synopsis sets up what is coming: Yahya and his brother Zarrar are the sons of Saleha Nizami and Jamal; Meherma marries Zarrar; and Asiya later turns against Saleha to take revenge, before Zarrar and Meherma leave the family home. Aina Asif, Shahvir Kadwani, Savera Nadeem and Samina Ahmed are also in the cast.
Why viewers are unhappy
Reviewit.pk, in a piece on Tuesday, said Episode 13 had sparked an online debate about a repetitive plot and basic storytelling. The complaints it gathered fall into two groups:
- “Very old story”: rich boy, poor girl, scheming mother. Viewers say they have seen this exact triangle many times, and some told the writers the younger couple’s track “should not have been in the drama”.
- Details that don’t add up: one comment asked how Asiya, written as a struggling worker, carries an iPhone 17 Pro Max. Others joked that Meherma behaves as if she has never heard of a bus, a rickshaw or InDrive.
That second kind of criticism stings more than the first. A familiar story can still work if the world feels real, and Pakistani audiences notice when a “poor” home has rich-home props.
Our take
The numbers say the star pull is real: Feroze Khan’s fan base turns almost anything he does into a top-trending video, and Nawal Saeed has a loyal following of her own. But a drama this size gets judged on its writing, and so far the plot is moving in straight lines everyone can predict.
Har Pal Geo posted the Episode 14 teaser on 9 November. Whether Asiya’s revenge track, promised in the channel’s own synopsis, arrives soon may decide if Mohabbat’s audience stays this big.
