Ru Baru

Ru Baru
Title Screen of Ru Baru
Genre	drama Romance
Written by	Hoor Shumail
Directed by	Saif e Hassan
Starring	Saira Yousuf Faizan Khawaja Adnan Siddique
Music by	Furqan and Imran
Opening theme	Main Jee Liya
Country of origin	Pakistan
Original language	Urdu
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Producer	Momina Duraid
Production locations	Karachi, Islamabad
Editor	Adeel Khalid
Running time	35-45mins (up to 60-70 mins without TV commercial)
Production company	Momina Duraid Productions
Original release
Network	Hum TV

'Ru Baru' (English: Face-to-Face) is a Pakistani drama serial that is airing on Hum TV. The show is written by Hoor Shumail, Produced by Momina Duraid, directed by Saife Hassan, and background music is done by Furqan and Imran. It is the story of a young girl, Shabiha, who after losing her parents moves in with her grandmother and uncles, Jameel and Shakeel and is brought up by them. Her grandmother gets her married with her cousin’s friend Sarmad who appears to be her step Brother. The drama serial premiered on 9 January 2014 in Pakistan, with the prime slot of 8:00 pm every Thursday on the channel Hum TV.

It is also being aired in India on Zee Zindagi from 18 September under the same title.

Plot

Ru Baru is the story of a girl Shabeeh (Syra Yousuf) who is an orphan thus living with her granny and uncles. In this household, nothing is her own except her granny, the insulting attitude of her aunt and cousin always reminds her that she doesn’t originally belong to this house. Rejected by her outer surroundings, Shabeeh takes refuge in art. She is an artistic girl who loves to play with clay her grandmother gets her engaged, however, her cousin’s friend Sarmad breaks off his engagement and marries her. It is only after that, that she discovers Sarmad is her mother’s step son and new facets of his obsessive and emotional personality.Ru Baru The Story of Love, Betrayal & Revenge Sarmad (Faiza Khwaja) is friends with Shabeeh’s cousin Tipu (Tipu Sharif). One day while visiting him, he discovers that Shabeeh is the daughter of his step-mom. He eventually marries her only to take revenge of his father’s betrayal to his mother. Shabeeh, who already had led a very difficult life, now have no other option but to adjust with her husband. She discovers how her late-mother ended up to be Sarmad's stepmother. The story goes in flashback, Taimoor (Sarmad's father) loves Neelam(Shabeeh's mother) who is his student in university in Turkey. Neelam struggles for what she wanted most in her life, Taimoor. Even though Taimoor was married and had a son, Neelam kept persuading him to leave his wife. Taimoor's Wife couldn't see him having an affair with Neelam so she becomes depressed. Neelam goes back to Pakistan and there her parents get to know her relationship with Taimoor, they are very upset because of this and her brother forces her to marry who ever will bring her a proposal. Neelam's mother tells him not to force her and wait for better proposal but he doesn't agree and she is married right away to a not so good looking guy. She doesn't love him even though her husband loves and cares for her a lot. Taimoor decides to come to Pakistan because he couldn't live without Neelam and his wife becomes extremely depressed and becomes mentally disturbed and that is how she falls from upstairs and dies. After her death taimoor tells Neelam to leave her husband and marry him. Neelam very cleverly takes divorce and leaves her husband and marries Taimoor and leaves her new born daughter (Shabeeh) to her husband. On knowing this her husband dies and her child is given back to Neelam to care of her. Sarmad who is very young at the time,saw his mother dying in front of him and he becomes mentally disturbed and has mental issues. When Neelam lives with them her treatment with Sarmad is very harsh and it affects Sarmad and later he gets required to go to psychiatrist. Sarmd's father dies as Sarmad had planned to add poison in Neelam's tea but father drinks it and dies. On seeing this Neelam kills herself by taking the poison too. Sarmad in later years is brought up by his uncle. This was the story of Shabeeh's mother in the past and how Sarmad had become what he was in present. Shabeeh struggles and goes through a very hard time with Sarmad.

Cast

• Syra Yousuf as Shabeeh (Neelam And Pervaiz's Daughter) (Sarmad's Wife) (Jameel's Niece)
• Syra Yousuf As Neelam (Shabeeh's Mother)
• Atif Badar As Parvaiz (Shabeeh's Father)
• Adnan Siddiqui as Taimoor (Sarmad's Father)
• Faizan Khawaja as Sarmad (Shabeeh's Husband)
• Saba Faisal as Tipu's Mother
• Behroze Sabzwari as Jameel (Tipu's Father) (Shabeeh's Uncle)
• Tipu Shareef as Tipu
• Shameen Khan as Kiran
• Tabassum Arif as Salima
• Mehwish Hayat as Seema (Sarmad's Mother)
• Palwasha Yousuf As Annie
• Saleem Mairaj As Karam Dean
• Madiha Imam As Neha (Sarmad's Ex Fiance)
• Hanzala Shahid As Young Sarmad

See also

• Furqan and Imran