Most watched Pakistani dramas this week: Mohabbat, Hurmat, Uswah lead
We checked the official YouTube views for this week's new episodes. Mohabbat 13, Hurmat 11, Uswah 48 and Nashtar 29 all passed 7 million.
Which Pakistani dramas are people actually watching right now? We checked the official YouTube uploads of the latest episodes on HUM TV, Har Pal Geo, ARY Digital and Green TV on Wednesday afternoon, 11 November. Four dramas passed 7 million views for a single episode within two to three days.
The top of the table
| Drama | Episode | Channel | Views on YouTube |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohabbat | 13 (9 Nov) | Har Pal Geo | 7.75 million |
| Hurmat | 11 (9 Nov) | HUM TV | 7.27 million |
| Uswah | 48 (9 Nov) | Har Pal Geo | 7.21 million |
| Nashtar | 29 (8 Nov) | Har Pal Geo | 7.18 million |
| Bano | 27 (9 Nov) | Har Pal Geo | 3.35 million |
| Madaar | 34 (9 Nov) | Green TV | 2.07 million |
| Bombay Tailors | 35, last (9 Nov) | HUM TV | 0.89 million |
| Dastoor | 80 (9 Nov) | Green TV | 0.82 million |
| Raqaas | 19 (9 Nov) | Green TV | 0.76 million |
Views at about 5 PM PKT on 11 November. Nashtar had one more day online than the rest. ARY Digital’s Rutba and Dar-e-Nijaat are not in the table because ARY puts only part of each new episode on YouTube; the full episodes are on its ARY Plus app.
Mohabbat: top, despite the complaints
Feroze Khan and Nawal Saeed’s Mohabbat tops the week even though many viewers complained that its story feels old, as we reported on Wednesday morning. Feroze Khan’s fan base keeps every episode near the top, whatever people say in the comments.
Hurmat: Dananeer’s drama holds its place
Hurmat, with Dananeer Mobeen and Shahveer Jafry, keeps HUM TV in the race with Geo. It has been one of the channel’s strongest performers this season.
Uswah: the daily that beats the weeklies
Uswah is the surprise. It airs more often than the weekly dramas and is already at Episode 48, yet each episode is matching the big-star weeklies. Geo’s official synopsis has Uswah (Saniya Shamshad) trapped in an unwanted relationship with the wealthy Essa (Omer Shahzad) on the eve of her marriage to her cousin Mahbir (Haroon Shahid), and the promo for the next episode asks whether fate will keep Essa and Uswah apart. In the comments, viewers are pleading with the writer not to let Essa leave Uswah, and calling Fariya “diplomatic and mean”.
Nashtar and Bano
Danish Taimoor and Anmol Baloch’s Nashtar keeps up its numbers on Saturday nights. Bano, with Hina Tariq and Haris Waheed, sits in a clear second tier at 3.35 million; Geo’s synopsis says Shehryar’s first wife Mehrunisa has returned to threaten his new marriage to Bano.
Green TV’s trio
Green TV’s Madaar (Humayoun Ashraf and Sumaiyya Bukhsh) is the channel’s best performer at about 2 million. Dastoor has passed 80 episodes and Raqaas, the psychological drama with Danyal Zafar and Komal Meer, is at 19, each with around 800,000 views.
What the numbers do and don’t tell you
YouTube views are not TV ratings. Many Pakistanis still watch on television, and overseas viewers in the Gulf, the UK and India add a big share of online views. But because every channel uploads to YouTube within hours, these are the fairest public numbers available. We will check again next week.
