Andhera Ujala

Andhera Ujala
Title screen
Genre	Drama Police procedural
Written by	Younis Javed
Directed by	Rashid Dar
Starring	Qavi Khan Rahat Kazmi Jameel Fakhri Abid Butt Irfan Khoosat
Country of origin	Pakistan
Original language	Urdu
No. of episodes	52
Original release
Network	PTV
Release	1984 (1984) – 1985 (1985)

Andhera Ujala (Urdu: اندھیرا اجالا, English: Darkness, Brightness) was a popular Pakistani crime investigation television series aired on Pakistan Television (PTV) during the 1984–85 season, written by Younis Javed and directed by Rashid Dar.

It also had an occasional touch of comic moments, mainly centred upon the character of a police constable,"Havaldar Karam Dad." The leading cast of the series included Irfan Khoosat, Jamil Fakhri, Qavi Khan, Rahat Kazmi and Abid Butt (sub-inspector).^[1] The main theme of this TV series was based on the 1983 drama Ragon mein Andhera, which aired on 29 December 1983^[2] and was to show a police team fighting crime in their locality. This TV drama serial later went on to become so popular among the public due to its reruns that it became a 'cult classic'.^[3]

Cast

Main cast

• Qavi Khan as DSP Tahir Ali Khan^[1][3]
• Rahat Kazmi as ASP Asad-Ur-Rehman
• Jameel Fakhri as (SHO) Inspector Jaffar Hussain^[1][3]
• Abid Butt as Sub Inspector Mehmood
• Nazir Hussani as ASI Mian Khan
• Irfan Khoosat as Havaldar Karam Dad^[1][3]
• Sadia Jilani
• Zaib Rehman as Neeli
• Yasmeen Ismail as Begum
• Manoon Abbasi as Constable Aftab
• Talat Siddiqui as Tahir's mother
• Samina Ahmad as Anjum
• Afshan Qureshi as Jaffar Begum
• Ismat Tahira
• Rubina Ashraf as Humaira
• Shakila Qureshi as Sajida
• Atiya Sharaf as Amma
• Lalarukh Hameed as Rubina

Recurring cast

• Mehboob Alam as Police officer
• Aurangzeb Leghari as Raheel
• Khayam Sarhadi as Naeem
• Firdous Jamal as Arif
• Saba Hameed as Rubi
• Sehrish Khan as Saima
• Tahira Wasti as Nasir's mother
• Bindiya as Nasreen
• Faysal Quraishi as Taha
• Firdous Jamal as Arif
• Asim Bukhari as Nasreen's father
• Nighat Butt as Nasreen's mother
• Waseem Abbas as Nasir
• Faiza Hasan as Zubaida
• Khursheed Shahid as Zainab
• Sarwat Ateeq as Muneer Begum
• Khalid Moin Butt as Anwar
• Jazba Sultan as Begum Aziz

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Result	Recipients and Nominees	Ref.
1984	Nigar Award	Best Actor	Won	Jameel Fakhri	[4]

Sequel

Main article: Janbaaz (TV series)

A sequel of Andhera Ujala was launched in 2019 with a new cast as well as the two old characters of Qavi Khan and Irfan Khoosat. The new members included Danish Taimoor, Rashid Farooqi. Khawaja Saleem, Hamza Firdous, Ayaz Sammo and Irfan Motiwala.^[5][6][7]

References

1. "Information and episodes of the TV serial 'Andhera Ujala' (1984)". vidpk.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
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3. In a league of his own (actors Jamil Fakhri and Irfan Khoosat) Dawn (newspaper), Published 11 June 2011, Retrieved 4 December 2020
4. "نگار ایوارڈز سال 1984". Nigar Weekly (in Urdu). Golden Jubilee Number: 297. 2000.
5. "Andhera Ujala returns to ptv with Danish Taimoor". HipinPakistan. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
6. "Hamza Firdous to feature in the sequel to Andhera Ujala". The News. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
7. "PTV's cop show Andhera Ujala is getting a sequel". Dawn. Retrieved 4 October 2021.

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