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Dour-e-Junoon
Dour-e-Junoon ( ur, , lit=Period of Madness) is a 1983 Pakistani television long play written by Anwar Maqsood and it was produced and directed by Mohammad Nisar Hussain. Synopsis The story is about Zainab and Sami, an old couple who live together in their house. They have four young sons who have moved abroad and don't contacts them. Zainab is the only person who understands her husband's pain but later he falls ill due to the sadness and depression and she contacts a kind lady, Rehana, a doctor who helps them. Rehana cheers Zainab and tries to help her and her husband. Cast * Navid Shahzad as Zainab * Qavi Khan as Sami * Sarwat Ateeq Sarwat Ateeq is a Pakistani actress. She is known for her roles in dramas ''Darwaza'', ''Dukhon Ki Chadar'', ''Mirza & Sons'', ''Samundar'', ''Sach Jhoot'', ''Kaanch Ka Pul'', ''Aankh Macholly'' and ''Guest House''. Early life Sarwat was born in ... as Rehana * Faysal Quraishi as Aamir Awards and nominations References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navid Shahzad
Navid Shahzad (née Rahman) is a Pakistani actress, writer and educationist. She started her career as an actor in 1970s and has appeared in a number of television series since then. Navid was a popular and successful actress of 1970s. She made her film debut with a supporting role in Nadeem Baig's ''Punjab Nahi Jaungi''. She became an author when her first book ''Aslan's Roar'' was published in 2019. Shahzad is the recipient of the president's Pride of Performance, the highest literary award of Pakistan. Early life Shahzad was born and raised in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Her father S. A. Rahman was the judge at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and later served as the 5th chief justice of Pakistan. She completed her studies from Government College, Lahore. Navid was the only daughter and youngest among her three brothers including Shahid Rahman a lawyer, Asad Rahman a human rights activist and Rashed Rahman a writer for Dawn Newspaper. Navid's mother was a philanthropist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent (mimesis) characters. In this broader s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anwar Maqsood
Anwar Maqsood Hameedi (born 7 September 1939, Urdu:), popularly known as Anwar Maqsood, is a Pakistani scriptwriter, television presenter, satirist, humorist, and infrequent actor. He was well known for his drama write-ups for PTV in the late 1970s and 1980s. Early life and family Anwar Maqsood was born on 7 September 1939 in Hyderabad State. He studied at the Gulbarga Trust School in Aurangabad. His large family migrated to Karachi in 1948, after the creation of Pakistan in 1947. His childhood years were spent in PIB Colony, Karachi with his siblings and family. Maqsood belongs to a prominent family of Pakistan and some of his siblings are well known in their own right: his sister, Fatima Surayya Bajia was a well-known writer in Pakistan and South Asia whose marriage ended early in divorce. She then chose to play a key role in the upbringing of her nine young brothers and sisters and became a maternal figure to them. Another sister Zehra Nigah, is a relatively well-known poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qavi Khan
Muhammad Qavi Khan ( ur, ) is a Pakistani film and television actor. He has also worked in Radio Pakistan and on stage. Though now largely working in television, he has acted in over 200 films. The Government of Pakistan honoured Khan with the Pride of Performance in 1980 and Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2012 for his contribution to the field of arts.Investiture Ceremony: 67 to receive national awards today The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 23 March 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2019 Life and career Khan began working as a child actor at in |
Sarwat Ateeq
Sarwat Ateeq is a Pakistani actress. She is known for her roles in dramas ''Darwaza'', ''Dukhon Ki Chadar'', ''Mirza & Sons'', ''Samundar'', ''Sach Jhoot'', ''Kaanch Ka Pul'', ''Aankh Macholly'' and ''Guest House''. Early life Sarwat was born in 1949 on May 22 in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her MA in journalism from Punjab University. Career Sarwat had passion for singing although she never learned music from anybody but she would sing songs in School ceremonies and she also did school stage dramas. In 1965 she gave audition for Radio Pakistan and passed the audition. Sarwat participated in children's program and she worked as child artist. After sometime she got interested in acting and she visited PTV for audition and she was immediately selected by the judges. She also acted on stages plays and she also did radio. Sarwat received basic training in art from radio but since she was working in dramas and couldn't work on Radio so she left Radio. She started her career on NTV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Television Network
Pakistan Television Corporation ( ur, ; reporting name: PTV) is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster. Pakistan entered the television broadcasting age in 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore. Background Historical context The idea of establishing a media and television industry was conceived in late 1956 and created by the privately set up national education commission, with the support of President Ayub Khan in 1960. Retrieved 13 January 2016. In 1961, the private sector media mogul and industrialist Syed Wajid Ali launched a television industrial development project, bringing the role of Ubaidur Rahman, an electrical engineer in the Engineering Division of Radio Pakistan, as the project director of the first television station in Lahore. Ali reached a milestone in 1961 after establishing a private television broadcasting company with the cooperation of Nippon Electric Company (NEC) of Japan and Thomas Television International of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faysal Quraishi
Faysal Quraishi ( ur, ; born October 26, 1978) is a Pakistani actor, producer and television host. He appears in Pakistani television dramas, reality shows and films, and is one of Pakistan's highest-paid actors. He is the recipient of more than 20 nationally recognised awards. He first gained recognition for playing the leading role of Boota in television series ''Boota from Toba Tek Singh'' (1999) and has now been a part of more than 200 projects. He hosted a morning show "Muskurati Mornings with Faisal Qureshi" from 2010 to 2014 on TVOne. From 2016 to 2019, he hosted the morning show ''Salam Zindagi'' on ARY Zindagi. He was also the host of a game show "Jeet Ka Dum" on HUM TV and is currently hosting another game show "Khush Raho Pakistan" on BOL TV. He also turned producer in 2017 with the production house ''Connect Studios'' and also owns a film production house "Faysal Quraishi Films". Early life Quraishi was born in Lahore, Pakistan. His father belonged to Urdu Speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PTV Awards
PTV National Awards () was an awards ceremony annually held by the Pakistan Television Corporation. The awards were first introduced in the late 1970s to encourage talented people in Pakistan. History The PTV awards is the largest awards ceremony in the country and is presented by the government of Pakistan's largest media group. The Pakistan Television Corporation established the PTV Awards in 1970 from Karachi Headquarters. The awards were not famous in the start but became popular after the fifth PTV Awards ceremony. In the 2000s, the management of the corporation extended the awards to privately working talent on different private channels. PTV has been the parent platform for most contemporary Pakistani actors and singers. Chief guest The chief guest of the PTV Awards is usually a head of state or government like the Honorable Prime Minister, Honorable President or Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Categories Following is the list of awards. Record of the awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Pakistani Television Series
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Television Corporation Original Programming
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the site of several ancient cultures, including the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh in Balochistan, the Indus Valley civilisation of the Bronze Age, the most extensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
