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MEIN BOHAT BURRE ADMI HOUN....was the pillow talk of Neelofer (Alim) Abbasi in the serial SHEHZORI one of the first bombshell of the slapstick comedies--purely and solely for the families and joint families---by the new find of Iftikhar Arif for PTV....THE HASNA MOIN!
SHEHZORI was the strong foundation/base of Hasina's take-off for giving us the best ever of PTV or SHOWBIZ.
The cast; Neelofer (then ALIM) wo later in 1974, married Qamar Ali Abbasi, the Regional Director of Radio Pakistan-Karachi, Shakil, Khalid Nizami, Qazi Wajid, Arsh-e-Munir, Begum Khurshid Mirza...the list goes on.
Neelofer's role as SHEHZORI was so strong that it drew special attention of the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Z.A.Bhutto's wife Nusrat Bhutto...who specially invited Neelofer to her residence 70-Clifton, Karachi and also attended Neelofer's wedding at the then, INTERCONTINENTAL Hotel, Karachi (Now PC). Next week of her marraige--Neelofer was made the Resident Director of Pakistan National Council of Arts-Karachi Chapter by Nusrat Bhutto.
Neelofer--a Nani now...is happily settled in New York and also works for some local Urdu TV Network there..while Qamar Bhai writes articles regularly.
SHEHZORI, as rightly said on this thread, is still as robust and appeaing to the comedy and family values hungry audience/viewers. I am happy to see that the younger generation of today--has high values for the lost family values of yesteryears---and that reassures our faith in you all.....the leaders and managers of Pakistan of tommorrow.
On a more interesting note---the famous anecdote of Shoaib Mansoor..."YE JO PTV AWARD HAI..." carries a line which closely relates to some scenarios of SHEHZORI.....like; MULK KI YE LARKIAN JO HEIN DAAL DAAL KUCHIEYAAN...SUSSAR KO THAPPAR MAAR K, DEEWAR GHARR KI PHAAND K...KABHI BHI BHAAG TEE NAHIN... as Neelofer played a character of a very tomboyish girl..who gets tamed by her hero...eventually.
Khush Rahein........
-Raju Jamil
Jeevay Jeevay PAKISTAN
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