''Ru Baru'' (English: Face-to-Face) is a Pakistani drama serial that aired on Hum TV. The show is written by Hoor Shumail, Produced by
Momina Duraid
Momina Duraid ( ur, ) is a Pakistani director and producer. She is a senior producer and creative head of television network Hum TV and CEO of her own production company MD Productions. She has produced and created several series including ' ...
, directed by
Saife Hassan
Saife Hasan is a Pakistani TV director and actor. He is best known for the drama serial ''Dil ki Madham Boliyan'' (2005) and '' Ehd-e-Wafa'' (2019). He has directed the drama serial ''Bari Aapa'' for which he was nominated for the Hum Award for Be ...
, and background music is done by
Furqan and Imran
Furqan and Imran (), commonly known as F&I) is the Pakistani musical band from Karachi which originated in 2013. The band mainly covers genres like Rock, Pop and Classical. The founding members of the band are Imran Butt as vocalist and Furqa ...
. 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.
Summary
The story centers around Shabeeh and Tipu's marriage. Shabeeh, lives with her grandmother and uncles, after her parents pass away and is brought up by the maternal family. She marries her cousin's friend, Sarmad, who has severe mood swings and some psychological issues. She discovers that her mother had an affair with Sarmad's father and eventually became his step-mother. Tipu is in love with his cousin and marries her; Kiran becomes paranoid and suspicious about Tipu cheating on her which eventually leads to divorce. Then eventually Tipu and Kiran get back together again
Plot
Series explores the story of a girl Shabeeh ( Syra Yousuf) who is an orphan and living with her maternal grandmother and her 2 uncles with their families. The drama starts with Tipu (
Tipu Sharif
Yörgüç Tipu Sharif, better known as Tipu Sharif ( ur, ), is a Pakistan-based actor and singer-songwriter of Pakistani and Turkish descent. His mother is from Izmir, while his father is from Karachi, Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), offi ...
) returning from Turkey after his graduation with his friend Sarmad (
Faizan Khawaja
Faizan Khawaja (born 7 January 1986), is a Pakistani American actor and producer.
Early life and career
Faizan Khawaja was born on 7 January 1986 in Houston, United States. His father, Rashid Khawaja, a veteran film and TV producer co-produced ...
). Tipu and Shabeeh are cousin and live in the same household.
Shabeeh is an introvert and spends her time in art work. Her cousins - Tipu and Kiran - love each other and want to get married, but her grandmother would like to see Shabeeh engaged before they marry. Her family receives a proposal from her uncle Jameel's friend's son - Usman - and they get engaged. One day, while visiting Tipu, Sarmad see Shabeeh and convinces Tipu that he likes her and wants to marry her. Tipu sees Sarmad as a better match for Shabeeh, and convinces his family to break off Shabeeh's engagement with Usman and to marry her to Sarmad.
After Shabeeh's marriage with Sarmad, she realizes that he has severe mood swings and has psychological issues. On their wedding night, he drags her out of the house and leaves her outside in the cold all night. Sarmad often wakes up screaming while sleeping and blames Shabeeh for ruining his life. One day, he eventually reveals to her that her mother had ruined her life and shows her pictures of her mother and his father together. Intrigued and confused, Shabeeh seeks Sarmad's uncle (khalu) and legal guardian, and asks him about Sarmad's parents.
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. Initially, Neelam refuses as she is pregnant. 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 commits suicide by shooting himself with a gun on his head and her child is given back to Neelam’ mother 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 drinking the tea (which has poison). 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.
Adnan Siddiqui
Adnan Siddiqui ( ur, ) (born 23 October 1969) is a Pakistani actor, producer and model who has worked in Lollywood and Hollywood and also made his debut in Bollywood with the Hindi film '' Mom'' (2017). He also has his own production house, '' ...
as Taimoor (Sarmad's Father)
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Faizan Khawaja
Faizan Khawaja (born 7 January 1986), is a Pakistani American actor and producer.
Early life and career
Faizan Khawaja was born on 7 January 1986 in Houston, United States. His father, Rashid Khawaja, a veteran film and TV producer co-produced ...
as Sarmad (Shabeeh's Husband)
*Saba Faisal as Tipu's Mother
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Behroze Sabzwari
Behroze Sabzwari ( ur, بہروز سبزواری; born 1957) is an actor from Pakistan, appearing in films, on television, and in voice acting roles alike.
Career
Behroze began his career in Radio Pakistan as a radio presenter. In the late 1 ...
as Jameel (Tipu's Father/Shabeeh's Uncle)
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Sultana Zafar
Sultana Zafar was a Pakistani actress. Sultana acted in numerous television dramas. She was known for her roles in dramas '' Munkir'', '' Ana'', '' Zid'' and ''Tanhaiyaan''. She used to run her boutique called ''Armale Studios''.
Early life
Sult ...
as Jameel's mother (Shabeeh's Grandmother)
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Tipu Shareef
Yörgüç Tipu Sharif, better known as Tipu Sharif ( ur, ), is a Pakistan-based actor and singer-songwriter of Pakistani and Turkish descent. His mother is from Izmir, while his father is from Karachi, Pakistan.
Career
Tipu Sharif has been act ...
as Tipu
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Shameen Khan
Shameen Khan is a Pakistani actress. She appeared in Pakistani television serials. In 2019, she made her film debut with Shamoon Abbasi's '' Gumm''. She appeared in television series such as ''Gohar-e-Nayab'', '' Hina Ki Khushboo'', ''Dharkan'', ' ...
as Kiran
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Tabassum Arif
Kiran Bala Govil ( Sachdev; 9 July 1944 – 18 November 2022), known professionally as Tabassum, was an Indian actress, talk show host and YouTuber, who started her career as child actor Baby Tabassum in 1947. She later had a television career ...
as Salima (Kiran's Mother)
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Mehwish Hayat
Mehwish Hayat (born 6 January 1988) is an Pakistani actress who primarily works in Urdu films and former television. She made her debut in film with comedy ''Jawani Phir Nahi Ani'' (2015) and later went on to '' Actor in Law'' (2016). Hayat i ...
as Seema (Sarmad's Mother)
* Palwasha Yousuf as Annie
* Saleem Mairaj as Karam-din
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