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Leading Pakistani actress Mehwish Hayat has shared her bold opinion on Pakistani content and said that if a small country like South Korea can top the Netflix charts globally, then why can’t Pakistan.

The Chalawa actress recently appeared in an interview with Gulf News where she talked about Pakistani content and her choices of choosing scripts. While talking about Pakistani content’s absence on OTT platforms Hayat drew analyses that it’s not that Pakistanis cannot do it or they lack in creating content. “Our country needs to change its style of work,” she asserted.

If a small country like South Korea can top the Netflix global charts, why can’t Pakistan?”, she maintained. She also highlighted how Pakistan needs to work on storytelling and work more professionally in order to reach the international market.

While comparing local with global following and viewership, the actress shared that the global audience is far more sophisticated, and Pakistani content is too geared for the home market and such work doesn’t travel internationally. She said that there is no harm in making content for the local market but such content has zero potential of reaching international platforms.