Sanwari

Sanwari
Urdu	سنواری
Genre	Romantic drama Soap opera
Written by	Abida Ahmed
Directed by	Kamran Akbar Khan
Theme music composer	Khadeeja Haider
Opening theme	Kya Hai Iss Rang Mein Rang Mein by Khadeeja Haider & Ali Arsalaan
Composer	Khadeeja Haider
Country of origin	Pakistan
Original language	Urdu
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	120 as of 8 February 2019
Production
Producer	Momina Duraid
Production location	Karachi
Cinematography	Abrar Kashmiri
Editor	Faizan Ghori
Original release
Network	Hum TV
Release	20 August 2018 (2018-08-20) – Present

Sanwari (English; Dusky) is a Pakistani soap opera that airs on Hum TV since 20 August 2018. It is created by Momina Duraid under her production banner MD Productions. The show stars Zainab Shabbir as Ujala, a dark-skinned girl who has to face the harshness of society, as well as trials and tribulations throughout her journey to happiness.

Plot

Ujala is a young college-going girl who lives in a small town but goes to a big college. She is studious and is always looking out for her family. Shama, her sister on the other hand, is selfish, obnoxious, self centered and only looks for her benefit in everything. Her brother, Jalal, is a thug on the streets with a bad reputation who robs people to get money and gives it to their mother Mrs. Sultan. The father, Munawar Sultan is a strict father but loves his children, especially Ujala as she is the most well-mannered of all. Shama is about to get married to a rich businessman but as soon as his family realizes that Jalal is a robber, they withdraw on marraige day. Instead she gets married to Taimoor, who has loved her since childhood and makes his life horrible as well as her mother-in-law's. Ujala gets hit by businessman Tabrez's car and Tabrez falls in love instantly; he begins to call and talk to Ujala. On the other hand, Shama has come back to her house and claims that Taimoor is no good and he has beat her. However Taimoor exposes her partially and Shama's father forces her to go back to Taimoor's house. Shama has a extra-marital affair with another man who ends up scamming her and Shama still does not learn her lesson. Ujala is insistent on not liking Tabrez on first - she soon falls in love with him. Tabrez's mother is totally against the relationship until she finds out Ujala is her brother's daughter and is aware now that Tabrez and Ujala are cousins and that Ujala is a very good person. She wants to get Ujala and Tabrez married. Days before their marriage, Ujala is kidnapped by Goga Badmaash and Reem who was obsessed with Tabrez and was going to get married to Tabrez before. Ujala's mother dies out of shock of Ujala being kidnapped and Shama being evil, blames Ujala. Ujala is heartbroken and rejects Tabrez's proposal because she feels that she should just be with her father for the rest of her life and take care of him, and not marry and leave the house. Tabrez feels that he is at fault and hates himself. Tabrez's mom now has abandoned hope of Ujala and Tabrez getting married and is against Ujala. However after repeated trials Tabrez is finally successful with getting Ujala to tell him whats wrong and she tells Tabrez. Tabrez is shocked and comforts Ujala about the situation. However in a twist of events, Ujala ends up getting engaged to someone else because they believe Ujala is no longer held in the shackles of Tabrez's love. Ujala breaks engagement and tells them she will not do this. She tells Tabrez she is ready for marraige. Tabrez is happy and so is Tabrez's mother, as well as Ujala's father. Shama goes shopping with Ujala and Tabrez and Reem's ex-fiance who Ujala had teamed up with before tells lies to Tabrez about how they spent nights at his house and Tabrez does not believe him. Ujala and Tabrez get married and Ujala's father dies days later, shattering Ujala further; she is further shattered when her brother Jalal dies. Ujala and Tabrez are living a happy married life now and Shama enters their life once again with evil intentions - she accuses Taimoor and his mother of ousting her out the house and Tabrez's mother believes her and lets her live in the house. Taimoor and his mother come back begging for Shama to come back but Shama says until Taimoor gives Reem a divorce, she will not comeback. Shama returns to Taimoor's house eventually and she messages Reem "talaaq, talaaq, talaaq" (divorce, divorce, divorce). Reem is shocked and saddened and she leaves the house and Taimoor finds her and says that he never gave her a divorce and that was Shama who has stole his phone and he has just now realized it. He buys a house for Reem to stay in and does not tell anybody but Shama begins noticing large transactions which she does not know about and it is actually Taimoor withdrawing the rent for Reem's house. Tabrez's mother begins to peeve Tabrez about having a grandchild and Tabrez tells his mother that Ujala can not have children, he learned this when the accident happened and Ujala was shot. Tabrez's mother is shocked but promises Tabrez that she will not tell Ujala. Tabrez's mother is talking to Taimoor's mother and Shama overhears them and asks her mother-in-law what they were talking about and she tells Shama about Ujala not being able to be a mother and tells Shama not to tell anyone but Shama tells Ujala. Ujala is shattered and is mad at Tabrez that why he did not tell her and why he hid this from her. Tabrez says he wanted to save her from being shattered and Tabrez's mom tells Tabrez he should do another marraige so that his legacy can live on, but Tabrez is angered by such an idea as he loves Ujala. However to the contrary of Tabrez's thinking Ujala gets convinced by Tabrez's mom to convince Tabrez to do another marraige to which Tabrez is still saying no, as he loves Ujala and only Ujala. Tabrez's mom tells Tabrez to marry a poor girl, have a baby with her and then divorce her. Tabrez gets mad because that is all Ujala and his mom are talking to him about. Shama is mad about Taimoor still sending Reem money, giving her a place to live, and giving her attention. Ujala and Shama visit Reem and Shama talks to Reem saying that she will get Taimoor but Shama pushes her on a table, hurting Reem and killing Reem's baby. Taimoor is angered and disgusted by Ujala's actions and tells her that she only has time until Shama's gives birth and claims then he will do something.

Cast

• Zainab Shabbir as Ujala
• Usama Khan as Tabrez
• Sahar Khan as Shama
• Zain Afzal as Taimoor
• Azra Mohyeddin as Tabrez's mother
• Khalifa Sajeer Uddin as Ujala's father
• Amber Khan
• Kinza Malik

Reception

The show has gotten a good response from the viewers; being the top daily soap airing in Pakistan across all channels. It has gotten TRPs as high as 5.6-6.4 regularly. Its regular TRP is usually above 5 and is very popular; it has completed more than 100 episodes since its inception.

External link

• Official website