Waris is a drama created by PTV

Pakistan Television Corporation

The Pakistan Television Corporation is Pakistan's national television broadcaster. The first live transmission of PTV began on November 26, 1964, in Lahore...

, written by Amjad Islam Amjad

Amjad Islam Amjad

Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, SI is a famous Urdu poet, drama writer and lyricist from Pakistan.-Life and career:...

. The drama ran in early 1980s and was a huge success. The show had 13 episodes, which is a traditional PTV drama serial format; with each episode almost one hour long.

Story

Waris is a tragedy underlining the changing currents in Pakistani society. The drama revolves around a feudal lord Chaudhry Hashmet Ali Khan and his struggle to keep hold on to his power, and his land which is being bought by the government to construct a Dam in the area. The story is well written and follows a format of socratic tragedy, in which a person of noble stature suffers in life - broadening the scope of tragedy in Urdu language.
so much so was its popularity that when its was being telecast on PTV the people would leave their day to day works to sit infront of the TV to watch this drama. Even in neighboring county India this was a huge success, and its cassettes were available all around the globe where Urdu/Hindi speakers would buy it and used to watch it on their VCRs.
its such a well written, well scripted and greatly acted drama that it was repeated several times by PTV and other channels but its never lost its following.

Cast

Mehboob Alam, Abid Ali, Uzma Gilani, Firdous Jamal, Aurangzeb Leghari, Tahira Naqvi, Agha Sikandar, Jamil Fakhri, Munawar Saeed, Samina Ahmed & Shujaat Hashmi, Amanullaha
Honour:
It was also translated in Chinese language.It was a great drama in the history of PTV till to date