List of Bulbulay characters

The characters from the Pakistan sitcom television series Bulbulay based on their respective counterparts.

Main characters

Name	Role	Starring episodes

Nabeel^[1]	Nabeel	1 – present
A lazy, greedy and selfish man who does not find a job and is always in search for a way to make quick money, often making investments using his wife's money just to find out they were frauds. He is Momo and Quddusi's son, Mehmood's step-son, Khoobsoorat's husband, Sona's half-brother and Chaandi's father. He depends on the money his father-in-law Siddiqui sends to Khoobsoorat. Although he is married to Khoobsoorat, he is often seen flirting with other women albeit without success. His wife never gets insecure, given his inability to pick girls up.

Ayesha Omar^[2]	Khoobsurat	1 – present
Ayesha Omar Nabeel's wife. She is the only sensible character, but can get greedy at times. She often tells Nabeel to get a job. She is Siddiqui's daughter. Her mother died when she was very young. Whenever Nabeel says something stupid, she says "Shut Up, Nabeel!" to which Nabeel replies "Okay, Jaanu!" (meaning Okay darling!) She hates the fact that her father pays the rent for the house and wants Nabeel to pay the rent instead. She often reminds Nabeel and his family that they are living on her father's money. She sometimes fights with Momo but actually Momo and Khoobsoorat love each other very much.

Mehmood Aslam	Mehmood Sahab	1 – present
Nabeel's step-father, Sona's father and Momo's second husband. Despite his old age, he tells his wife that this is his first marriage. He retired from his old job many years ago, and also receives some pension. He tries to makes him and his wife's life as comfortable as possible.

Hina Dilpazeer^[3]	Momo/Mumtaz	1 – present
Nabeel's mother Mumtaz or Momo as her husband calls her, is a clueless old lady who often forgets names. She even forgets the names of her husband, son and daughter-in-law and always calls them by random names much to their annoyance in which they say "oof" and then always face palming themselves. She also forgets words and names of objects, and refers to the word with woh (that) and leaves everyone around her guessing what word she was looking for. She was first married to Nabeel's father. Fifteen years after his death, she married Mehmood Sahab. She has two sons, Nabeel and Sona. Mehmood is her husband and Khoobsoorat is her daughter-in-law. Chaandi is her granddaughter. She is the most-loved character on the show and has slowly gained a cult following.

Faatima Nadeem	Chaandi	114 – present
Nabeel and Khoobsoorat's daughter, Mehmood and Momo's granddaughter and Sona's niece. "Chaandi" means Silver in English. Whenever something is held wrong, she asks her mother "What happened mama?". She is the same age as her uncle Sonna.

Nyle Rizwan	Sona	114 – present
Mehmood and Momo's son, Nabeel's half-brother, Khoobsoorat's brother-in-law and Chaandi's uncle (although he is the same age as Chaandi). His name, "Sona" means gold in English. He is very fond of Nabeel and wants to be like him in very manner, such as talking style, etc.

Recurring characters

Although there are a lot of minor and recurring characters, the most notable include:

Tariq Butt as Butt Sahb, First seen in the first episode sharing a bench with Khubsoorat at the train station where he is reading an English newspaper, the narrator says that he enjoys reading English newspapers and comes to the station often to read the newspaper for free. The narrator then says, he stares at every woman as if she were his wife, following this comments he starts staring at Khubsoorat and starts flirting with her, as a result she gets up and walks out of the station. Later it turns out he is a police officer and occurs regularly in the series. He is a good friend of the family. He does not know how to do his duty, when he is called to help he usually does nothing useful and mostly ends up worsening the situation.

Khwaja Aslam as Siddiqui, Nabeel's father in-law and Khubsoorat's father. He does not like Nabeel due to his incompetence and laziness and despises Nabeel for marrying his daughter. When Khubsoorat first meets her dad after running away from the marriage, she tells him she got married to Nabeel so that he does not take her back home with him. Later he finds out she is not married and says he is coming to take her back home, but unfortunately for Siddiqui, by the time he arrives, Khubsoorat is already married to Nabeel. When Nabeel's friend Ahmar finds tenants for his apartment, and the family has to evacuate the apartment, it is Siddiqui who arranges and pays for the new home for his daughter and as a result for the family to live in.He married to another girl in episode 140.

Binita David as Baytab, Siddiqui married her in episode 140. Although she is married to the much older Siddiqui, she often talks to her ex-boyfriend Omer on phone. Siddiqui is however, aware of this. It seems as if she has only married Siddiqui for money. She calls Siddiqui "Babloo".`

Shahid Khawaja as Dr. Shahid 612, Bulbulay's family doctor. He was a mental patient before and after treatment he became an animal's doctor. He often mentions that he's still ill and his mental illness can't be cured and previously had many diseases like T.B, cancer, Hepatitis etc.

Special appearances

Reema Khan on eid special
Aijaz Aslam as Nabeel's deceased father: Although he had died fifteen years ago, his ghost has appeared in three episodes of Bulbulay when he wanted to kill Mehmood Sahab because he is Momo's second husband. However, when Nabeel told him that he loves Mehmood Sahab more than him, his ghost left.
Irfan Motiwala as a thief in Ramadan Episode 160 and another Episode they are kidnaper of Mehmood.
Ashraf Khan as Father of Momo who has came in many episodes of Bulbulay. He also came as a magician in an episode.
Nayyar Ejaz as Nayyar Bhai the brother-in-law of Mahmood Sahab who has appeared twice.
Zuhab Khan as Zeeshan a child who lost in a market and Momo took him with her.
Maqsood Hassan as ghost

References

↑ "All in a name: Nabeel". The Express Tribune (Saadia Qamar). Retrieved 28 December 2014.
↑ "Style Icon: Ayesha Omar". The Express Tribune (Sidrah Moiz Khan). Retrieved 30 December 2014.
↑ "Versatility, thy name is Hina Dilpazir". The Express Tribune (Saadia Qamar). Retrieved 28 December 2014.

External links

Official website

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