Did Meray Paas Tum Ho really score a higher IMDB rating than Game of Thrones?

Spoiler alert: it didn't.

Updated 22 Jan, 2020

There's no doubt that Meray Paas Tum Ho has taken Pakistani social media by storm.

But even the seemingly successful Ayeza Khan, Humayun Saeed and Adnan Siddiqui starrer can't hold a candle to the cult-like following of Game of Thrones.

The drama has also come under fire for its misogynistic writing inclined towards discrediting women courtesy of Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar but clearly that discourse has been overshadowed by all the positive and viral marketing done for the show.

News started doing the rounds recently about how the Pakistani drama had a higher rating on IMDB, an online database for film and television, than GoT. Of course we had to investigate...and found out how that wasn't really the full story.

Sure, when you Google MPTH, it shows an IMDB rating of 9.9 but when you click on it and the link takes you to the serial's IMDB page, the rating is a modest 7.7. Another page for the same drama with a different spelling has a rating of 8.3. Not bad for IMDB standards but certainly not more than GoT which gets around 9.4 (bet they could've gotten more if it wasn't for THAT atrocious final season).

Also, is it really even fair to compare the two ratings when 1,612,531 people have reviewed GoT whereas only 482 folks have rated MPTH?

Comments

Me Ho Dec 11, 2019 02:36pm

Off course it didn’t whoever thinks so is living in cloud cuckoo land.

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AA Dec 11, 2019 08:09pm

I'm just glad that Attack on Titan ep 54 is still the top ranked TV episode ever. Gives you faith in the IMDb rating system.

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sixes Dec 12, 2019 07:01am

There are chances to score higher IMDB rating cause this drama serial has many twists and curiosities and a strong touch of idiosyncrasy. Hats off to story writer and director of Maeray paas tum ho.

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UMAIR Dec 12, 2019 05:25pm

Look at number of users who have given the rating. 1 Million of GOT vs less than 100 for MPTH. Getting any rating from so few users mean nothing.

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sakina Dec 14, 2019 04:03am

Calling it "misogynistic writing inclined towards discrediting women " is biased against men.Cant a woman be unfaithful,cheater,selfish,manipulator,liar ever?its sickining to attribute the bad traits only to men or otherwise as every gender has positive and negatuve traits.I am a woman and i have seen some women who do all this.It all depends on a persons nature,upbringing,goals and choices in life.If we want to get equality then it should be also be responsibility of actions equally without being unbiased.

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