Durr-e-Shehwar


Durr-e-Shehwar is an Urdu language Pakistani telenovela written by Umera Ahmed and directed by Haissam Hussain. First broadcast in Pakistan by Hum TV, Durr-e-Shehwar, which premiered in Pakistan on 10 March 2012, has been produced by Momina Duraid and Six Sigma Entertainment. The telenovela, which featured actors Sanam Baloch, Qavi Khan, Meekal Zulfiqar, Samina Peerzada, Noman Ejaz, and Nadia Jamil in lead roles, ended its run in Pakistan on 16 June 2012, after airing 15 episodes.
Durr-e-Shehwar has also been broadcast in India by Zindagi under the title Dhoop Chhaon, premiering on 21 October 2014. It ended its run in India on 6 November 2014.

Plot

Durr-e-Shehwar's daughter, Shandana, and Durr-e-Shehwar's husband, Mansoor's nephew, Haider have been married to each other for the last eight years. But recently there has been a breach in their relationship due to which Shandana decides to spend some time at her maternal home in Murree along with her young daughter, Sophia.
Both Durr-e-Shehwar and Mansoor love Shandana and Sophia a lot. But Shandana envies her mother thinking that she led a comfortable and happy life with a loving husband and nothing to worry about. And thus, she often compares Haider with her father. Shandana also undergoes a stage of semi-depression and evens thinks of divorcing Haider. When Mansoor gets to know this, he gets angry with Haider. He reports this matter to his sister i.e. Haider's mother, thus, further complicating the matter.
Unable to see Shandana in such a devastated condition, finally one day Durr-e-Shehwar narrates her own life story to Shandana and reveals that life for her wasn't as easy as Shandana thinks it to be. She tells her that when she had got married and moved to Mansoor's house, Mansoor's mother was cold towards her and did not use to appreciate her for good qualities. Durr-e-Shehwar had to struggle a lot to gain her mother-in-law's acceptance and also the true love of Mansoor, who had earlier neglected her on the words of his mother. Hearing this story, Shandana realizes that her mother's life wasn't a bed of roses and being a housewife did not ensure happiness for Durr-e-Shehwar. This does blemish Shandana's respect for her father but it calms her down and gives her morale to start a new life with Haider.

Cast