Re: Arifa Siddiqi
Ghareeb-e-Shahar
Starring: Shagufta Aijaz, Abid Ali, Sadia Imam, Asad, Saleem Sheikh, Ali Afzal, Arifa Siddiqui, Kanwal, and Sohail Ahmed
Written by: Asghar Nadeem Syed
Directed by: Ayub Khawar
Released: March 2000
The story revloves around the family of Abid Ali who is caught between the web of money, power and deceit. Abid Ali leaves his wife (Shagufta Aijaz) and three kids (Asad, Saleem, Sadia Imam) in their childhood to go to London and then does not return till the kids are all grown up.
When he returns,he begs for forgiveness and the wife relents and forgives, the kids refuse to do so.
Asad gets involved in student University politics and lands himself in jail. Saleem Sheikh is a railway station incharge who loves Arifa Siddiqui but due to monetary circumstances cannot marry. Sadia Imam is an airhostess, while Ali Afzal is a pilot in love with her.
A politician (Sohail Ahmed) takes interst in her and she dumps Ali for him because of more money. Kanwal is the politician's first wife who also runs a NGO and is not ready to let him re-marry. The government changes and Sohail Ahmed lands in jail as well as Asad who now becomes best friends with him.