Meanwhile, Saleem is an active supporter of the Indian National Congress, with all his friends being Hindu. He strongly believes in the establishment of Pakistan and is an avid follower of Qaid-E-Azam, the leader of the Muslim League and Pakistan Movement. He is an active supporter of the All-India Muslim League, and the leader of the Ludhiana Branch. Hassan is in his final year at the Islamia College as an engineering student. As Hassan starts teasing and flirting with Bano, they slowly begin to develop feelings for each other, with Hassan visiting Ludhiana every now and then. Although Rabia was only 14 years old and Hassan thought of her as a younger sister, she started developing feelings for him. Hassan spent most of his time at the wedding preaching the Quaid's message and the rest of it teasing his cousin Rabia and flirting with Bano. The whole family was gathered for the wedding, including Hassan's aunt Jameela from Amritsar and his aunt Sultana and her daughter Rabia from Karachi. (The last time they met was three years ago when they were children). Hassan returns for Saleem and Suraiya's wedding where Hassan and Bano meet for the first time as adults after three years. When Hassan went to study at University he left home and went to Islamia college in Peshawar. Bano, Suraiya, Faheem and Salim and Hassan were childhood friends and all grew up together.
When Hassan's father died, he and his mother were kicked out of his fathers house by his paternal family and they moved back to Rasheeda's maternal house. Suraiya's nephew, Hassan was the son of Rasheeda.
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īuilt on the true events of partition of 1947, the series depicts the events of rioting and chaos in 1947.īased on the novel, Bano, Dastaan begins with the wedding of Suraiya and Salim. It is considered to be one of the best Pakistani television series of all times. Director Haissam Hussain stated in an interview that production for the drama began months in advance, and that the filming itself only took a little over two months. The story is about the trials and tribulations Bano faces after she decides to dedicate her life to the All-India Muslim League.ĭastaan is the first project of its kind taken up by the Pakistani media. The drama depicts the story of Bano, a girl from a close knit Muslim family living in Ludhiana (located in undivided Punjab) in the pre-1947 era. Based on the partition of the Indian Subcontinent and the resulting independence of Pakistan, the story takes place takes place between 19.
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Broadcast on Hum TV in 2010, it was dramatized by Samira Fazal. Dastaan ( Urdu: داستان, lit.'The tale') is a Pakistani TV series based on the novel Bano, by Razia Butt.