''Samundar'' (meaning "ocean" in Urdu) was a Pakistani
television
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PTV network
Pakistan Television Corporation ( ur, ; reporting name: PTV) is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster. Pakistan entered the television broadcasting age in 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore.
Background
Historical co ...
. The show was broadcast from the PTV Lahore center and was directed by Yawar Hayat and Qasim Jalali, Amjad Islam Amjad wrote the script. The drama serial is one of the most famous dramas from PTV. It is remembered to this day due to its unique story line and huge star cast.
Characters and cast
''Samundar'' The noun "Samundar" is Amjad Islam Amjad's metaphorical reference to the world that surrounds us all. An Abyss full of unique human characteristics, frailties and triumphant human spirit. The Drama tells the story of FIVE unique friends bonded together by friendship and a common purpose in business partnership. Their lives are essentially torn apart by greed, lust for wealth, impulsive power, scandalous ambition and lack of mores. The FIVE friends also display a unique set of characteristics, personifying individuality and though a friendship bond but a unique perspective of life
:Shabaz Khan (Mahboob Alam): is a feudal lord who descends from the centuries-old socioeconomically stagnant and yet dominant Agrarian Indo-Asian culture. He represents all that is historically wrong with the systemic Feudal landownership system. He is a tenacious blowhard, power-mongering, aggressive proto-businessman. He uses any means necessary to force and maintain his egotistical control over the world that surrounds him. He is the dominant of the 5 partners, more solemn and decisive in action and believes in short term solutions
:Qadeer (Nisar Qadri): A meager and yet shrewd salvage business owner who brings to the partnership table a cunning extra sense, a worldly practical perspective, self-serving impulse, diabolical survival instinct, and a hobby and knack for knowing a variety of exotic poisons. He is pragmatic, and relies heavily on using lingual metaphors to memorize any listener. He is also astute negotiator and possess a skillful art of measurements and assessment
:Ibrahim (
Irfan Khoosat
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(1984-1985) in which he portrayed a simpleton ...
): is a self-absorbed, passive, surreptitious, petty and incredulous large person. He brings to the business partnership almost entirely an ebb of fellowship, although he can turn on a dime with absolute vengeance and surmounting hunger for gains
:Nosheen ( Bindiya), The effervescent socially gifted strong minded feminist first born of Khan Shabaz Khan. She carries a soft caring interior over a hard tenacious defensive shell. She represents the clan's Feudal hegemonic powerful facade. She is feisty, flirtatious and holds no grudges
:Nasir (
Asif Raza Mir
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Starting his acting career at the age of 17, he has since worked in a number of popular films, including ''Miss Hongkong'', '' Daaman, Wafaa, Playboy, Badalte Mausam'', and ''Saath ...
), The prodigal eldest son of "Baqar", one of the FIVE partners. An idealist and a progressive thinker and a graduating medical doctor. He aspires to change the centuries-old traditionalism, although nearly always confines himself to a traditional upbringing as the "good son".
:Yasir (
Waseem Abbas
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), The central character in this play. The younger of the Baqar's boys who happens to kick off this titillating and suspenseful drama when he is Bailed out by Ahmed Kamal, only to find himself working for him in efforts to avenge his father's murderers
:Sidra (
Arifa Siddiqui
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:Tanveer (
Tauqeer Nasir
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Ear ...
), who can go to any extent to take revenge
:Mehroz (Mohammad Zubair), a wealthy boy
:Gullu (
Abid Kashmiri
Abid Kashmiri is a Pakistani film, television and stage actor and a comedian. He has been working in Pakistani Urdu films and dramas as well as working in stage dramas.
Filmography
* ''Bazar-e-Husan'', 1988
* ''Aainak Wala Jinn'', 1995
* ''J ...
), a rickshaw driver with a heart of gold
:Sumaira (Sehrish Khan), who is unaware of her past
:Tabasum (Shakeela Qureshi), for whom life is a burden
:Najeeb (Mahmood Aslam), a spoilt student and uses his father's position and money to destroy others
:Qamar un Nisa (
Nighat Butt
Nighat Butt was a Pakistani actress and singer. Nighat acted in numerous television dramas and films.
Early life
Nighat was born in 1948 in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her studies from University of Lahore.
Career
She started stage acting a ...
), an evil woman who destroyed the lives of several girls for her own advantage
:Nasir and Yasir's mother (
Khursheed Shahid
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Early life
Khursheed Shahid was born in 1926 in Delhi, where her father was a government official a ...
), a kind mother who wants to see her children happy
:Tehseen (Poonam), a practical and caring young woman
:Zaman ( Abid Ali), related in some way to all these characters and plays an important part everyone's life