Samundar (TV series)

Samundar (meaning "sea" in Urdu) was a Pakistani television serial presented by the PTV network. 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. The serial was made into an Indian film called Jaal in 1986.

Characters and cast

Samundar is the story of many people whose stories are interlinked:

Shabaz Khan (Mahboob Alam), a rich feudal lord and a business man

Qadeer (Nisar Qadri) an evil business man

Ibrahim (Irfan Khoosat) a cowardly rich man

Nosheen (Bindiya), a rich and proud girl with a soft heart

Nasir (Asif Raza Mir), a dedicated young doctor

Yasir (Waseem Abbas), a boy who cannot see his mother suffering and thus looks for a job everywhere

Amma (Khursheed Shahid), who has brought up her children all alone with sheer hard work

Sidra (Arifa Siddiqui), a happy go lucky girl for whom fate has something else in store

Jeeran (Sarwat Attique), who has hidden a dark secret in her heart for so many years

Tanveer (Tauqeer Nasir), who can go to any extent to take revenge

Mehroz (Mohammad Zubair), a wealthy boy

Gullu (Abid Kashmiri), 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), an evil woman who destroyed the lives of several girls for her own advantage

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

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