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Jangloos (TV Series)
''Jangloos'' is an Urdu novel written by Pakistani author Shaukat Siddiqui, and first published in 1987. Set against the backdrop of Central Punjab, the novel tells the story of two prisoners who escape from jail. ''Jangloos'' is the second novel of Siddiqui after his debut, '' Khuda Ki Basti''. Primarily in Urdu, the novel also has Punjabi as its secondary language. It was adapted into a television series which aired on PTV in 1989. Plot summary The story is set against the backdrop of central Punjab, Pakistan, where two prisoners, Raheem Dad and Lali, escape from jail. In an attempt to hide from the legal authorities, they face various hurdles and come across several criminals. Adaptation The novel was adapted as a television series of the same name by PTV, which was broadcast in 1989 and directed by Kazim Pasha. The series was left unfinished, and only the first volume of the novel was adapted. The protagonist characters were played by M. Warsi and Shabbir Jan. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaukat Siddiqui
Shaukat Siddiqi (; 20 March 1923 – 18 December 2006) was a Pakistani writer of fiction who wrote in Urdu language. He is best known for his novels '' Khuda Ki Basti'' (''God's Village'') and '' Jangloos''. Early life and career Siddiqi was born on 20 March 1923 in a literary family of Lucknow, British India.Novelist Shaukat Siddiqui dies The Nation (newspaper), Archived from the original on 21 October 2007, Retrieved 25 July 2018 He gained his early education in his home town and earned a B.A. in 1944, and did his M.A. in (Political Science) from Lucknow University at the age of 23. After the , he migrated to Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazim Pasha (director) .
Kazim Pasha () () is a Pakistani television director and producer known for well known directions for PTV. His directions also include a film '' Ghazi Shaheed'' (1998). He is the father of TV show host Nida Yasir. TV Dramas * Uljhan * Jangloos (1989) * Chhaon * Iʻtirāf * Kashkol (1993) * Gurez * Manḍī * Seerhian * Kashish Movies * Ghazi Shaheed - 1998 Awards * Pride of Performance Award in 2012 by the President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan () is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The president is the nominal head of the executive and the supreme commander of the Pakistan Armed Forces. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Pasha, Kazim Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set In Pakistan
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani Novels
Pakistanis (, ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. As much as 85-90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims. The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family ( Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies). Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million. The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure resides in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis). Ethnic subgroups Ethnically, Indo-Aryan peoples comprise the majority of the population in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodreads
Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and discussions. The website's offices are located in San Francisco. Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler. In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members and 10,000,000 books had been added. By July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and thirty employees. On March 28, 2013, Amazon announced its acquisition of Goodreads, and by July 23, 2013, Goodreads announced their user base had grown to 20 million members. By September 2023, the site had more than 150 million members. History Founders Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shabbir Jan
Shabbir Jan () is a Pakistani actor who has appeared in many TV drama serials, such as '' Jangloos'' (1989), '' Makan'' (2006) ''and'' '' Zindagi Dhoop Tum Ghana Saya'' (2011). Career Shabbir Jan started working as a TV actor in the 1980s. He won the PTV Best Actor award three times. He was a nominee for the Best Actor award in the Lux Style Awards in 2010.Profile of Shabbir Jan tv.com.pk, retrieved 21 July 2019 Personal life In a 2024 interview with , Shabbir Jan revealed that he married for the first time at the age of 18 with his cousin, with whom he has six children. Later, after entering the entertainment industry, he decided to tie the knot for a second time t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Television Corporation
Pakistan Television Corporation (; reporting name: PTV); also known as ''Pakistan Television'', is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster founded by the Government of Pakistan, operating under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It was established on 26 November 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore. History Background 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. 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 Electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Punjab Province
The Saraikistan province movement is the proposal to create a new province in Pakistan by carving out the Saraiki-speaking southern regions of Punjab. Bahawalpur or Multan have been proposed as the capital of Saraikistan. The movement for Saraiki province began in the 1970s when Saraiki-speakers demanded that the Saraiki language be officially recognized and promoted as a separate language, instead of being considered a dialect of the Punjabi language. The Pakistani government recognized the Saraiki language as a separate language under President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, though he kept the provincial movement in check. In 1989, Taj Langah founded the Pakistan Saraiki Party (PSP) and remained its president until his death in 2013. He was one of the foremost figures of the Saraiki province movement. The region of southern Punjab comprises the Bahawalpur, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions. The proposed province would form about 52 percent of the total area and almost 40 percent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi Language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 88.9 million native speakers according to the 2023 Pakistani census, and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, according to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census. It is spoken among a Punjabi diaspora, significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Gulf states. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written using the Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script; in India, it is written using the Gurmukhi, Gurmukhi alphabet, based on the Brahmic scripts, Indic scripts. Punjabi is unusual among the Indo-Aryan languages and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khuda Ki Basti (novel)
''Khuda Ki Basti'' () is a Pakistani Urdu novel penned by Shaukat Siddiqui in 1957. The novel is about life in a Karachi slum built after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and the struggles in the lives of poor people living there. ''Khuda Ki Basti'' TV drama serials were made in 1969 and 1974 based on the novel. Description A modern classic of Urdu literature by Shaukat Siddiqui, the setting for ''Khuda Ki Basti'' are the 1950s slums of Karachi and Lahore in a newly independent Pakistan. The story revolves around a poor, respectable family that has fallen on hard times. Corruption and degradation take over their lives. Jobless, and without any real hope of a better life, they find themselves in the clutches of unprincipled evil people who exploit them. It's the story of a young woman, Sultana, and her younger brother, Annu. Their widowed mother is first pursued by a conniving man from the neighbourhood who apparently wants to marry her, but whose real intention is to get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
