Sanjha
| Sanjha | |
|---|---|
 Sanjha title screen | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Sameera Fazal |
| Directed by | Farooq Rind |
| Starring | Suhaee Abro Imran Aslam |
| Theme music composer | Waqar Ali |
| Opening theme | Song written by Ayyub Khawar performed by Sanam Marvi |
| Composer | Bilal Allah-Datta |
| Country of origin | Pakistan |
| Original language | Urdu |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Farooq Rand |
| Editors | Shiraz Fayaz Rao Rizwan Adeel |
| Running time | ~40 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Hum TV |
| Release | November 17, 2011 – April 26, 2012 |
Sanjha (Urdu: سنجها) is a Hum TV drama which started airing on November 17, 2011.
Plot summary
The story revolves around a poor girl from Thar, Sanjha. Her brother-in-law, Majeed (Rehan Sheikh), sells her to a brothel owner Mumtaz (Resham) and tells his wife, Nasim (Sabreen Hisbani), that he has sent Sanjha away to the city to earn a living. In her innocence, Sanjha does not realize that she has not been hired as a maid but as a prostitute. Shabo (Seemi Pasha) also lives in the brothel with her two sons, Weeda and Deema. Weeda has a passion for painting and starts liking Sanjha.
Things begin to look up for Sanjha's future when Shabana (Naila Jaffery), who runs an NGO and is writing a book on women visits the brothel with her son, Dr. Ammar (Fahad Mustafa), and is approached for help by Sanja's sister, Nasim who is looking for Sanjha. Nasim learns that Weeda had sold her to a palace. Nasim dies by the immense shock by the news. Sanjha soon becomes a mistress of hukum (Noman Ijaz). Now story moves on to Weeda who is heartbroken and bearing the pain of selling Sanjha. His college mate falls hard for him but Weeda dislikes her. After seeing his paintings she encourages Weeda to show the painting on an exhibition. Weeda accepts and a man likes his painting so much that he keeps Weeda as a painting artist. Man is none other than the hukum. Sanjha angrily confronts Weeda when she see him. She curses him countlessly and beats him with a stick. Hukum's aide Laeeq (Malik Raza) tries to make understand Sanjha about Weeda but she backfires him. Now Weeda's lover wants him to marry her. Weeda clarifies that he doesn't love her and leave him for God sake. Weeda takes help of Laeeq to give letter to his lover about his dark past. This leads to end of the relationship of both. Hukum comes to know about the past affair of Weeda & Sanjha and angrily shouts on her but Sanjha clarifies that she do not love him. Now to make Weeda jealous and to taunt him, she keeps proposal to hukum to marry her and hukum and Sanjha goes for shopping. Heartbroken Weeda keeps silence about it. After shopping, hukum takes Sanjha to lunch where hukum makes her realise the true love of Weeda. Sanjha is set free and runs to find Weeda. She hugs Weeda and ask him for forgiveness.
Cast
- Imran Aslam as Murad (Weeda) (parallel lead & protagonist)
- Suhaee Abro as Sanjha (title role) (lead & protagonist)
- Fahad Mustafa as Dr. Ammar (Shabana's son) (protagonist)
- Naila Jaffery as Shabana (protagonist)
- Sabreen Hisbani as Nasim / Addi (protagonist)
- Seemi Pasha as Shabo (Weeda n Deema's mother)
- Malik Raza as Laeeq
- Shazia Afgan as Rosie
- Resham as Mumtaz (antagonist)
- Noman Ijaz as Hukum (antagonist)
- Rehan Sheikh as Bakshu (antagonist)
- Eshita Mehboob as Narmeen
- Ayeshah Alam
- Ayesha Toor
- Salmi Zafar
- Rashid Farooqi
- Yasir Shoro
- Maria Zahid
- Uroosa Siddiqui
- Sajid Shah
- Raju Jamil
- Humaira Zaheer
- Ismail Chandio
- Nasreen Naz
Awards
Won The 1st Hum Awards For Best Director Drama serial
References
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