Ishqiya (TV series)

Ishqiya عشقيہ
Official title card
Genre	Family Drama Romantic drama
Created by	ARY
Written by	Mohsin Ali Shah
Directed by	Badar Mehmood
Starring	Feroze Khan Hania Amir Ramsha Khan Gohar Rasheed
Theme music composer	OST: Asim Azhar Background Score: Salman Khan
Opening theme	"Ishqiya" by Asim Azhar
Country of origin	Pakistan
Original language	Urdu
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	28
Production
Producers	Fahad Mustafa Dr. Ali Kazmi
Camera setup	Multi-camera setup
Running time	38–85 minutes
Production company	Big Bang Entertainment
Distributor	ARY Television Network
Release
Original network	ARY Digital
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	3 February (2020-02-03) – 10 August 2020 (2020-08-10)
External links
Website

Ishqiya (Urdu: عشقيہ‎; transl. Passionate) is a 2020 Pakistani television series premiered on ARY Digital on 3 February 2020.^[1][2] It is produced by Fahad Mustafa and Dr. Ali Kazmi under Big Bang Entertainment.^[3] It is a story of love, trust and betrayal which revolves around two sisters, Roomi and Hamna, played by Hania Amir and Ramsha Khan, respectively. They have different personalities and pay a heavy price due to misunderstandings created in their life.^[4]

It will also air in Arab World on MBC Bollywood in Ramadan 2021.^[5] Serial won 8 awards out of 17 nominations at ARY People Choice Award 2020.

Plot[]

Hamna (Ramsha Khan) and Rumaisa (Hania Aamir) are sisters raised by overprotective parents. Hamna is quiet, peaceful and reserved while Rumi is carefree, outgoing and talkative, but both love their father dearly. Hamna and her college classmate, Hamza (Feroze Khan) are dating since 4 years and are madly in love with each other. Hamza is shown to be quite possesive about her as well. Hamna is hesitant to tell her father that she is in love as he doesn't believe in love marriages. Due to her father's sickness and fear of him losing his respect, Hamna agrees to marry her father's friend's son Azeem (Gohar Rasheed) leaving Hamza heartbroken. He out of anger and heartbreak meets a car accident and is severely injured.

After gaining consciousness, Hamza vows to take revenge from Hamna for her disloyalty. Hence, he reaches Hamna's house with his parents to ask for Rumi's hand in marriage. Hamna is shocked by this and is strictly against this marriage. She tries to stop everyone but fails as Hamza blackmails her and threatens her that if she will expose his intentions, he will leak all Hamna's messages and videos in which she is expressing her love for him. As soon as they get married, Hamza calls Hamna every night. Sometimes making her feel guilty of what she did, or scaring her by saying that he will mistreat Rumi. Due to continuous calls and Hamna's strange and lost behaviour, Azeem began to feel suspicious but does not question Hamna about it. Due to Rumi's carefree and lively nature, Hamza unknowingly start to fall for her but does not realize it and still feels that he is faking it. Also, with Rumi being possessive of him, he begins to realize personality differences in his and Hamna's nature (as he used to be possessive of Hamna) and taunts Hamna about the same.

On Rumi's insistence, Hamza joins his father's business. As a part of revenge, Hamza gifts Azeem and Hamna honeymoon tickets and both the couples go on their honeymoon together. There Hamza continues to blackmail Hamna and beats a man for staring at her. Siddique Sahab (Hamna and Rumi's father) falls ill and is admitted to hospital but no one is aware of it except their mother. Alisha, daughter of Saman's (Hamza mother) business partner still has feelings for Hamza, for some time she begins to notice Hamza staring at Hamna and digs up in his past and reaches their university to collect proofs. As Rumi is more attached to her father, she immediately realises that something is wrong and asks Hamza to return. As they reach home and came to know about her father's illness, she becomes angry at her mother for not informing her about her father's illness.

Siddiqui Sahab passes away and Rumi is shattered and feels betrayed for not being able to help him. Azeem continues to behave cold with Hamna but does not reveal to anyone about her past and the truth. When Hamza comforts Rumi after her father's death, she confirms from him whether he loves her to which he nods, Rumi asks him not to give her any false hopes and remember that she also loves him because if she breaks down now then she would not be able to cope up again. Rumi being unaware of his motive behind marrying her, advises Hamza not to become selfish in love and value others love as well, Hamza hugs her and his senses become overshadowed by her. He confesses same to his confidant, Shariq, that Rumi's tears make him uneasy and her happiness and well-being matters to him. Shariq tells him that he has fallen in love with her to which Hamza denies that he has no place for love in his heart. Shariq tells him that Allah's power is greater than his power of revenge and Allah has supported Rumi's love. He advises him to give up on his revenge and accept his defeat (as he is in love with Rumaisa).

Azeem warns Hamza of coming near Hamna and consequences of his doings. Hamza asks Hamna to stay out of his and Rumi's matter after being threatened by Azeem about revealing his true colors in front of Rumi and to free her from his clutches. Hamza asks Hamna to end this game and that he has deleted all her messages. Hamna tells him that he has already lost war, Hamza reveals that he is in love with Rumi. Hamna does not believe him and asks him to tell truth to Rumi if he really loves her, to which he agrees. Azeem seeing them together, again warns Hamza to stay away from his wife, which Hamza accepts but puts one condition that Azeem also stays away from his wife (Rumi). Rumi gets pregnant and shares the news with Hamza. Hamza requests Azeem not to reveal truth to Rumi because of her pregnancy. Azeem orders Hamna to do the same. The ladies have a get-together and Alishba tells her about Hamza and Hamna's past and Hamza's accident because of Hamna. Rumi slaps her but still has doubt in her mind.

Next day, she goes to Hamna's house and asks her from when she knows Hamza and Hamna tells her the truth. Rumi goes back to her in-laws house and starts packing. Hamza who has plan of spending time with Rumi asks her where she is going. Rumi confronts him that she was only her revenge and that their relation was a lie. Hamza tries to explain but Rumi slaps him and asks him not to touch her. She goes back to her mother's house and is devastated for being betrayed. Hamna tells her that Hamza was blackmailing her. Rumi tells whole truth to her in-laws and her mother also comes to know about it. Hamza's family is ashamed and angry at his actions. Hamza tries to tell Rumi that he loves her but she tells him that he only loves himself. Rumi asks him to blackmail her and show her love messages to everyone not caring that she is his wife. Because he didn't care that Hamna is someone's sister, daughter and a wife. Due to weakness she has a miscarriage. Azeem and Rumi forgive Hamna and Rumi files for Khula. In the end Hamna gets pregnant and Rumi is shown living happy independent life with her mother. Hamza is alone in depression regretting over his past actions with Hamna and Rumi.

Cast[]

Soundtrack[]

The original soundtrack is sung and composed by Asim Azhar. Lyrics were written by Azhar himself along with Hassan Ali and Raamis. It received more than 11 million views on YouTube. The female version which is played within episodes and sometimes at the end is sung by Kaiynat John.^[6]

Awards and nominations[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website