Ghughi (Punjabi: گُھگِھّی, lit. 'Dove') is a 2018 Pakistani drama serial based on Amrita Pritam's 1950 novel Pinjar. It is directed by Iqbal Hussain, written by Amna Mufti and produced by Cereal Entertainment. It originally aired on TV One Pakistan. It stars Adnan Siddiqui as Rasheed and Amar Khan as Nirmala in lead roles.
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Plot
Ghughi is a story of passionate love and overpowering hate—set against the violent, bloody upheaval of Partition. A beautiful and young Hindu girl Nirmala whose family came to their ancestral village Malikwal in Gujranwala District of Punjab from Jalandhar is kidnapped the night before her wedding by Rasheed, a young Muslim man from Sandhewal, to avenge his family's honour. Nirmala's family is devastated and to atone for this mishap they marry off her younger sister Nikki to Nirmala's fiancée Takh Chand who was from Sodhiwal. While Nikki and Takh Chand are distressed on their forced marriage, its Nirmala who faces isolation and extreme hatred of Rasheed's family.
Cast
Adnan Siddiqui as Rasheed a.k.a. Sheeda
Amar Khan as Nirmala a.k.a. Nimmo, after Forced Conversion into Islam - Fatima.
Mohsin Gillani as Deewan Chand
Asma Abbas as Parwati
Haris Waheed as Sukh Chand
Khalid Butt as Lal Chand
Tahira Imam as Nadini
Hamza Firdous as Tek Chand
Raheela Agha as Majid's wife Bhabo
Ahmad Mohsin as Bashir
Muhammad Umar Khan as Raja Jee
Farah Tufail as Inayat Bibi
Yasmeen Hashmi as Shakuntala aka Nikki
Hamna Amir as Choti
Rashid Mehmood as Sajjad
Umer Darr
Ahmed Mohsin as Akrama