Bilqees Kaur

Bilqees Kaur
Genre Drama
Written by Faiza Iftikhar
Directed by Adnan Ahmad
Starring Bushra Ansari
Khalid Ahmed
Ahsan Khan
Syra Yousuf
Sadia Imam
Kashif Mahmood
Farhan Ali Agha
Saleem Sheikh
Adnan Jillani
Adeel Ahmed
Maheen Rizvi
Nadia Afghan
Shazia Afghan
Fawad Jalal
Anum Fayyaz
Maha Warsi
Theme music composer Waqar Ali
Opening theme Bullah Ki Jaana
written by Bulle Shah
performed by Farah Anwar
Composer(s) MAD Music
Country of origin Pakistan
Original language(s) Urdu
No. of episodes 19
Production
Producer(s) Momina Duraid
Editor(s) Kashif Ahmed
Cinematography Shehzad Kashmiri
Running time ~35 minutes
Production company(s) Moomal Productions
Broadcast
Original channel Hum TV
Original run April 15, 2012 – August 26, 2012

Bilqees Kaur (Urdu: بلقيس كور) is a Pakistani drama serial directed by Adnan Ahmad, written by Faiza Iftikhar and produced by Momina Duraid It began airing from April 15, 2012 on Hum TV.[1] The drama serial was shot in New York, Karachi, Lahore and Gujranwala. The serial featured a large ensemble cast including Bushra Ansari, Sadia Imam, Syra Yousaf, Shazia Afghan, Nadia Afghan, Maha Warsi, Farhan Ali Agha, Khalid Ahmed, Kashif Mahmood, Saleem Sheikh, Adnan Jillani, Ahsan Khan, Fawad Jalal, Anum Fayyaz, Jahan Ara Haye, Maheen Rizvi and Adeel Ahmed. The show will be soon aired in India under the title "Balwant Kaur chali Amreeka", on Zindagi (TV channel).

Overview

Bilqees Kaur is the story of Balwant Kaur and Iqbal Bhatti, a Pakistani-origin couple with a conservative lifestyle that has been living in New York for 30 years. To maintain their traditional ways, the couple gets their son and daughter married into Pakistani families. However, the younger son, Sultan, thinks differently and chooses the bold and confident Soha as his wife.[2]

Cast and characters

Main cast

Born Balwant Kaur, Bilqees is a converted Muslim and is shown to follow the religion but does go to the gurdwara once a week to pray for her late parents. She is shown to be a controlling and oppressing mother and seems to have traditional views. However at the end of the show it is reveiled that she is just over-protective as she wants her children to do well in life. All in all Bilqees's actions are driven by her own Guilt for eloping with Iqbal and hurting her family. Ironically in trying to keep her new family close and subdued, she manages to drive them away as well.

Sultan wants to pursue a white-collar job and is continuing his studies meanwhile. He is shown to be attracted to his boss Liz at the start and proposes to her but she believes in co-habiting over marriage. Sultan rejects her because of this idea and goes to Pakistan to attend his friend's wedding. There he falls in love with Soha and marries her without his family's presence.

She is an orphan and lives with her sister, brother-in-law and their son. She realises her brother-in-law has wrong intentions towards her and in a rushed decision to save her sisiter's married life she marries Sultan without her sister knowing the real cause of her rushed marriage to Sultan. After marriage she comes to New York where she clashes with Bilqees - her mother-in-law.

Peeno is married to Sultan's older brother Inayat (who is also her first-cousin) and works tirelessly in Bilquees' restaurant without recognition. Despite being married for eight years, she has no children nor her husband's love and attention. However things start to improve for her after Soha's arrival.

Bilqees' eldest son. He is a night-time taxi driver in New York and has little feelings for his wife Peeno and does nothing for her when his mother beats her up occasionally. He enjoys going to dance shows of Pakistani actresses and gambling.

Bilqees' youngest daughter. She goes to college and her mother seems proud of her lack of interest in fashion and boys. However she has fallen in love with a foreign Indian-Muslim student who has come to study in America.

Other credited cast

References

  1. http://www.hum.tv/program_page.php?page_id=3&program_id=10&playlist_id=DFC8C72338AB1E40
  2. https://www.facebook.com/bilqeeskaur

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