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*Thanks a lot arjay for entertaining my query, at least we can hope now that all of this wonderful stuff will come out one day and be available to the fans of old PTV programs like me. Also many thanks for sharing great pictures. This site has actually proved to be much more than I was expecting for. It has a whole treasure of information about the old days of PTV and also my beloved Karachi. I have already read a few blogs especially of arjay about the ‘cinemas of Karachi’ and ‘old days of railways’ and they are a feast for reading. *
PTV has produced some memorable solo-plays either as tele-theater, long-plays or to celebrate a special occasion. Some of them which come to my mind are:
ZINDAGI BANDAGI … Abid Ali played the role of an old-fashioned school master and Tahira Naqvi (Marhooma) a retarded girl
*CHOAR BUKHAR … Was the story of a thief who breaks into a house and latter finds himself arrested by the love and friendship of a sick kid. Sikander Shaheen played the title- role of CHOAR with Nayyar Kamal the other lead artist *
KHAIT KHAIT HARYALI … Talat Hussain played the character of an old farmer and Shahid Shah of his son
*YE KAHAN KI DOSTI HAY … A serious play written by Anwar Maqssod. Rahat Kazmi played the character of a cancer patient and Huma Akbar was also in lead role *
*GAR NAMA-BUR MILLAY … Shakeel was in lead-role and Javed Shaikh played the character of his friend. I don’t remember the lady opposite to Shakeel in lead-role. I think it was about the deliverance of some latter on CHAND RAAT before EID DAY and many funny incidents happened in between. *
There was one more drama featuring Shakeel and Shaisat Qaisar. Shakeel played the role of an idiot boss who used to give dumb calls to his secretary (Shaisat Qaisar) as her potential fiancé, and asked for a DATE, and then had always appeared himself on the spot - apparently by sheer co-incidence - to scold her for her carelessness.
Dramas from all four PTV centers i.e. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar (Quetta center was not inaugurated till then) were presented as a part of Jashn-e-Tamseel back in 1970s. Two of them as I remember were
*SONAY KI CHIRYA … by PTV Karachi, in which Nisar Qadri played the character of a crippled beggar and used to live in an undercinstruction building with his grandson *
PAGAL … BY PTV Peshawar, the only thing I remember about this play is that it had received 1st prize in the competition. Nothing more is in my mind about the story or actors of the play
I also managed to find six episodes of AIK HAQEEQAT AIK FASANA (Nisar Qadri & Mustanser Hussain Tarar) on VCD, but the most sought-after episodes DUBAI CHALIO & GORAY BABA KI WAPSI were not include in them.