Fraud is a 2022 Pakistani Thriller drama television series written by Zanjabeel Asim Shah, directed by Saqib Khan and produced by Abdullah Seja under banner iDream Entertainment. Starring Saba Qamar, Ahsan Khan and Mikaal Zulfiqar in lead roles in their second on-screen appearance together after 11 years, the series is set in Lahore and Karachi.[1] It began on ARY Digital on 14 May 2022.[2]
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Urdu | فراڈ |
Genre | Action serial drama Thriller |
Written by | Zanjabeel Asim Shah |
Screenplay by | Nabeel Nadeem |
Directed by | Saqib Khan |
Starring | |
Theme music composer | Octave Studio |
Opening theme | Ali Zafar |
Country of origin | Pakistan |
Original language | Urdu |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 29 |
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Producer | Abdullah Seja |
Cinematography | Luqman Khan |
Animator | Moshin Habib |
Editor | Rao Ali |
Running time | Approx. 36-45 Minutes |
Production company | iDream Entertainment |
Distributor | ARY Television Network |
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Original network | ARY Digital |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
Audio format | stereo |
Original release | 14 May 2022 (2022-05-14) – present (present) |
Nisar (Mehmood Aslam) dreams of getting his two daughters, Maya (Saba Qamar) and Maila (Rabya Kulsoom), married to rich and fancy people, and because of this, he fixes Maya's engagement with Shujaat (Ahsan Khan), a rich man who lives with his parents, Khawar (Saife Hassan) and Jahanara (Annie Zaidi) in a big mansion. After Shujaat and Maya's wedding, Shujaat finds out that his uncle died, so he and his parents leave Pakistan for a while, leaving Maya at her parents' house.
After no contact with Shujaat or his parents for more than two weeks, Nisar and his nephew Nael (Adnan Samad Khan) go to the police to file a missing report for Shujaat, but after looking at Shujaat's picture, the police officer tells Nisar and Nael that Shujaat and his parents are actually fraudsters, who steal all of women's jewellery and money after getting Shujaat married to them, and then running away, and they find out that their mansion actually belongs to someone else. Out of grief and guilt, Nisar decides to get Maya married to Nael, but he rejects at the last minute for revenge because Nisar rejected Nael's proposal for Maya earlier before her marriage to Shujaat.
Meanwhile, Shujaat and his parents, who are actually his partners in crime, rob a Punjabi woman named Rehana (Aamna Malick), but Shujaat leaves his partners after not getting his share he was promised. He then tells his friend that he will marry one last woman and get settled with her forever. Shujaat then meets Tooba (Naeema Butt) at an ATM stand, and Tooba's driver tells Shujaat that Tooba is part of the Shaan Textiles business. Shujaat then becomes friends with Tooba. Tooba is the stepsister of Shaan Kumar (Mikaal Zulfiqar), and Shaan has a daughter named Zimmal, but his wife Simra (Kinza Razzak) leaves him to go to America with Zimmal. Tooba's mother and Shaan's stepmother, Kulsoom (Asma Abbas) tries to convince Shaan to forget about Simra, but Simra comes back to keep Zimmal with Shaan, since Simra doesn't want to keep her.
Maya, Nisar and her mother Shehnaz (Nida Mumtaz) decide to move to Lahore, where Maya gets a job at Shaan Textiles and she meets Kulsoom, who becomes impressed by Maya. Before moving to Lahore, Maila got married to officer Talaal (Alee Hassan Shah), but after Talaal is murdered, Maila moves with her family to Lahore as well. Maya then meets Zimmal, but Shaan tells Maya to stay away from her, as he doesn’t trust women after Simra left him. Tooba and Shujaat start dating, and eventually get married, to which then Kulsoom decides to get Shaan and Maya married, which eventually they agree to after both saying no. It is revealed that Shujaat is actually a poor man, and has a poor mother and sick father in Punjab, but he can't make them meet Tooba because he lied to her saying that his parents died, and his parents don't know about his fraud business.
Shaan and Maya gradually start growing feelings for each other and growing closer to each other after their marriage, but one day when Shaan and Maya are going to meet her parents, Maya shockingly reunites with Shujaat, who is living with Shaan after his life is threatened by his friend. Maya starts becoming disturbed, and Shujaat then learns from Tooba about Maya's two failed marriages, the first one with Shujaat himself and the second one with Nael, which never happened.
Shujaat then threatens Maya to not reveal his truth, or else he will reveal Maya's two failed marriages to Shaan, as Nisar didn't tell Shaan that Maya has been married before and has even been robbed, out of the fear that Shaan will leave Maya, so both Maya and Shujaat keep each other's mysteries to themselves. But, after having had enough of being threatened by Shujaat, Maya goes to Kulsoom and Tooba and she tells them the truth about Shujaat, that he was her first husband and that he is a fraud. Shujaat tries to defend himself but Tooba breaks down after feeling betrayed and sends Shujaat away.
The series was announced in December 2021, with Qamar, Khan and Zulfiqar in the leading cast in their second project together, the first being Pani Jaisa Piyar in 2011.[3][4] It is the fourth project featuring Khan opposite Qamar, previously featured in Dastaan, Pani Jaisa Piyar, Na Kaho Tum Mere Nahi and Moomal Rano.[5]
"Mere Dildar Sanam" | |||||||||||
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Song by Ali Zafar and Hina Nasarullah | |||||||||||
Language | Urdu, Punjabi | ||||||||||
Released | 13 May 2022 (2022-05-13) | ||||||||||
Length | 5:00 | ||||||||||
Label | ARY | ||||||||||
Songwriter(s) | Ali Zafar[1] | ||||||||||
Producer(s) | iDream | ||||||||||
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singer shahzda ahmad
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