Apnay Log
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| Apnay Log | |
|---|---|
 Title screen | |
| اپنے لوگ | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Amjad Islam Amjad |
| Directed by | Mohammad Nisar Hussain |
| Starring | |
| Country of origin | Pakistan |
| Original language | Urdu |
| Production | |
| Producer | Mohammad Nisar Hussain |
| Original release | |
| Network | PTV |
| Release | 1985 – 1985 |
Apnay Log (Urdu: اپنے لوگ, lit. 'Own People') is a 1985 Pakistani television long play. It was written by Amjad Islam Amjad, with Mohammad Nisar Hussain producing and directing.[1] Made at PTV's Lahore Centre, the play is routinely grouped with Waris, Dehleez, Samandar, Raat and Waqt as one of Amjad's best-known screenplays.[2][3][4]
Murad turns away from a government career and chooses teaching instead. He hopes to marry Rehana, but she tells him that her father won't accept a teacher as a son-in-law. Her father arranges her marriage to Murad's friend Iqtedar, and she goes through with it. Murad later marries Kulsoom, who comes from a poor family. He then loses his teaching post for refusing to accept terms laid down by Musharraf.[1]
Cast
- Madeeha Gauhar as Rehana
- Abid Ali as Murad
- Saba Hameed as Kulsoom
- Aurangzeb Leghari as Musharraf
- Salman Shahid as Iqtedar Ali
- Abid Kashmiri as Imran
- Mehboob Alam as Sarwar Ejaz
- Shabnam Zahid as Mehreen
- Mehmood Aslam as Mudassir
- Ejaz Qaiser as the Principal
- Tajamul Husain as Abdul Qaddus
- Baqir Ali as Javed
- Zahid Siddiq as the Professor
- Khursheed Shukat as Qureshi
- Asim Bukhari as Kulsoom's father
- Qayyum Shehzad as Farzand Ali
- Inayat Amjum as Yar Muhammad
- Ghayyur Akhtar as Mooda Pehlwan
- Munir Nadir as Pehlwan's man
- Khursheed Ali as Pehlwan's man
- Asif Seemab as a student
- Fozia Rehman as a student
- Humayun Sheikh as a student
- Nazneen Mazhar as a student
- Shahid Mubeen as a student
- Muhammad Zubair as Zubair
- Basit Khan as Shamim Akhtar
- Noman Shah as the Doctor
The cast appears in PTV's official episode listing.[5]
Production
Apnay Log was made for PTV's Lahore Centre in 1985 as a long play single, extended drama rather than a serial.[citation needed] Amjad had been a director at PTV from 1975 to 1979, and the script came out of the period in which he produced most of his best-received television work.[2] He later said he would stopped writing for television altogether, putting it down to a drop in screenplay standards once private channels began to multiply.[2]
