Ghughi
Ghughi | |
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Genre | Period drama |
Created by | [1] |
Written by | Amna Mufti |
Story by | Shahzad Javed |
Directed by | Iqbal Hussain |
Starring | Adnan Siddiqui Amar Khan |
Country of origin | Pakistan |
Original language | Urdu |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 29 |
Production | |
Producers | Adnan Siddiqui Akhtar Hasnain |
Running time | 35 minutes |
Production company | Cereal Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | Tv One |
Release | 25 January 9 August 2018 | –
Ghughi (Urdu: گُھگِھی, lit. 'Dove') is a 2018 Pakistani drama serial based on Amrita Pritam's 1950 novel Pinjar.[2] This drama is directed by Iqbal Hussain, written by Amna Mufti and produced by Cereal Entertainment. It originally aired on TV One Pakistan.[3][4] It stars Adnan Siddiqui as Rasheed and Amar Khan as Nirmala in lead roles.[5]
Plot
[edit]It is the story of passionate love and overpowering hate—set against the violent, bloody upheaval of Partition. A beautiful and young Hindu girl Nirmala whose family came to their ancenstral village Malikwal in Gujranwala District of Punjab from Jalandhar kidnapped the night before her wedding by Rasheed, a young Muslim man from Sandhewal , to avenge his family's honour. Nirmala's family is devastated and to atone for this mishap they marry off her younger sister Nikki to Nirmala's fiancée Takh Chand who was from Sodhiwal . While Nikki and Takh Chand are distressed on their forced marriage, its Nirmala who faces isolation and extreme hatred of Rasheed's family.
Cast
[edit]- Adnan Siddiqui[6] as Rasheed a.k.a. Sheeda
- Amar Khan as Nirmala a.k.a. Nimmo , after Forced Conversion into Islam - Fatima.
- Mohsin Gillani as Deewan Chand
- Asma Abbas as Parwati
- Haris Waheed as Sukh Chand
- Khalid Butt as Lal Chand
- Tahira Imam as Nadini
- Hamza Firdous as Tek Chand
- Raheela Agha as Sajid's wife
- Ahmad Mohsin as Bashir
- Muhammad Umar Khan as Raja Jee
- Farah Tufail as Inayat Bibi
- Yasmeen Hashmi as Shakuntala aka Nikki
- Hamna Amir as Choti
- Rashid Mehmood as Sajjad
- Umer Darr
- Ahmed Mohsin as Akrama
Accoldaes
[edit]Nominations
[edit]- 18th Lux Style Awards - Best TV Writer - Amna Mufti[7]
- 18th Lux Style Awards - Best Original Soundtrack - Naveed Nashad & Beena Khan[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Isani, Amna (28 January 2018). "Can 'Ghughi' recreate the magic of Amrita Pritam's 'Pinjar'?". Something Haute. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Drama serial 'Ghughi' of Adnan Siddiqui's Cereal Productions to release in January". Daily Times. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ "Adnan Siddiqui shares first look of his serial on Partition - Film & TV". Images. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Trailers of Adnan Siddiqui's drama Ghughi are out!". Daily Pakistan. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ Desk, Entertainment (16 January 2018). "'Ghughi' will make people on both India and Pakistan gravitate to their roots: Adnan Siddiqui". Express Tribune. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Shabbir, Buraq (18 January 2018). "Period play Ghughi just as relevant today – Adnan Siddiqui". The News International. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ a b Images Staff (30 March 2019). "Lux Style Award 2019 nominations are out!". DAWN. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
External links
[edit]- Official website Archived 16 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- Pakistani drama television series
- Urdu-language television shows
- TVOne Pakistan
- 2018 Pakistani television series debuts
- 2018 Pakistani television series endings
- Partition of India in fiction
- Television series set in Punjab, Pakistan
- Television shows set in Punjab, India
- Television shows based on Indian novels
- Television series set in the 1940s
- Pakistani television dramas based on novels
- Pakistani period television series