Shanakht Character Analysis

“Shanakht” was the drama of HUM TV which was written and directed by Amna Nawaz. It was produced by Momina Duraid and was a project of A N K Production. The drama serial started on 5th August, 2014 and serial aired its last episode on 16th December, 2014. Shanakht was a show attracted because of the sensitive topic of religion and based on important religious matter of women Hijab. Shanakht was the show after “Main Abdul Qadir hou” that gives the message of religion.

Cast:

The main cast of serial “Shanakht” includes Maya Ali as Quratulain (nicknamed Annie), Fahad Mirza as Roshan, Noor Hassan as Hashim and Kanza Wayne as Faryyal. Other stars were Sabahat Bukhari as Annie’s mother, Shamim Hilaly as Hashim’s mother and Mohsin Gillani as Annie’s father.

Storyline:

The story starts when Annie who was a marriageable girl, influenced by her friend to wear Hijab and her friend also embraced about Islam

The drama “Sanakht” was also influenced by western culture as they had shown high class society. The people were liberal-minded and wear expensive, branded and sleeveless western clothes. The ladies of this drama wear high-heels in whole serial. The makeup they wear was loud. The houses shown in this drama were big and arranged in the modern way. The people of that society not accepted the people who follow religion and feel unpleasant about their thoughts. Wearing Hijab and having a Beard is becoming uncommon in the society because of western culture, people thought they are “Mulana” or “Mulani”. In upper-class society, it becomes mildly difficult to embrace religion in right way because they think religious people are narrow-minded and conservative. The western culture becomes barrier because people become judgmental towards other’s choices. The joint family system that is a Pakistani is losing its value and vanishing because of western