Bin Roye's TV version fills in plot holes the movie couldn't
Around 6 pm my khala texted from the east coast: "Wasn't the first episode of Bin Roye just awesome?"
She had seen the episode on YouTube. Then about an hour later my mother hurried to the living room so as to not miss any part of the drama; it was all very reminiscent of our days with Humsafar.
Now if you don’t know my family, trust me when I say this, our standards for dramas are high so getting an ‘awesome’ means something went very right!
The drama everyone had been waiting for the entire year finally aired this weekend. Written by Farhat Ishtiaq (who has already given Hum TV back-to-back hits with Diyar-e-Dil and Udaari), the drama is an adaptation of her novel ‘Bin Roye Aansoo.’
It is also an 'adaptation' of the feature length film Bin Roye that was released in 2015.
Produced by Momina Duraid and directed by Haissam Hussain and Shahzad Kashmiri, the drama’s cast boasts of superstars like Humayun Saeed, Mahira Khan, Armeena Khan, Zeba Bakhtiar, Javed Sheikh, and Junaid Khan.
The episode starts out with Saba and Irtiza (Mahira Khan and Humayun Saeed) driving (in a really sweet BMW) to the house where Irtiza and Saba's elder sister, Saman (Armeena Khan), used to live when they were married. The house clearly hadn’t been lived in for years.