Ishq Hai

Ishq Hai is a Pakistani television series directed by Aabis Raza and produced by Fahad Mustafa and Ali Kazmi under the banner Big Bang Entertainment. The series features Danish Taimoor and Minal Khan in leading roles while Saba Faisal, Babar Ali, Hammad Shoaib and Mahenur Haider in supporting cast.

The series was highly rated and received negative reviews.

Plot
Isra and Shahzaib are in love with each other and want to marry. However, Shahzaib's mother is against the affair as she wants to marry Shahzaib to her niece. On the other hand, Isra also faces the same problem from her elders. Her brother is against the girl's will about marriage and her father one day decides her marriage with a guy played by Hammad Shoaib. On the wedding day, Shahzaib kidnaps Isra and threatens her at gunpoint, out of necessity Isra agrees and both become husband and wife. On the other side, all at Isra's home assume that Isra has eloped from marriage by her own will.

Cast

 * Minal Khan as Isra Waqar
 * Danish Taimoor as Shahzeb Husayn
 * Azekah Daniel as Naina
 * Mahenur Haider as Nimra
 * Faraz Farooqui as Hammad
 * Hammad Shoaib as Haris
 * Babar Ali as Waqar; Isra's father
 * Farah Nadeem as Farhat
 * Saba Faisal as Shahzaib's mother
 * Rashid Farooqui
 * Saife Hassan
 * Saima Qureshi as Saba
 * Sajjad Paul as Raza
 * Mahi Baloch as Sameera
 * Tabbasum Arif as Maryam (Haris's mother)

Reception
The series was one of the highest series during its broadcast in July–August 2021.

The serial received negative reviews from the critics. It received criticism and poor reviews and being labelled as "problematic" by some due to toxic masculinity portrayal of obsession as love and huge toxic characters in the plot.