Ghughi

Ghughi
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 (2018-01-25) – 9 August 2018 (2018-08-09)

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

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

• 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

Nominations

• 18th Lux Style Awards - Best TV Writer - Amna Mufti[7]
• 18th Lux Style Awards - Best Original Soundtrack - Naveed Nashad & Beena Khan[7]

References

1. Isani, Amna (28 January 2018). "Can 'Ghughi' recreate the magic of Amrita Pritam's 'Pinjar'?". Something Haute. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
2. "Drama serial 'Ghughi' of Adnan Siddiqui's Cereal Productions to release in January". Daily Times. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
3. "Adnan Siddiqui shares first look of his serial on Partition - Film & TV". Images. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
4. "Trailers of Adnan Siddiqui's drama Ghughi are out!". Daily Pakistan. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
5. 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. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
6. Shabbir, Buraq (18 January 2018). "Period play Ghughi just as relevant today – Adnan Siddiqui". The News International. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
7. Images Staff (30 March 2019). "Lux Style Award 2019 nominations are out!". DAWN. Retrieved 7 March 2021.

External links

• Official website Archived 16 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine