O Rangreza
O Rangreza (), was a Pakistani romantic drama serial that airs on Hum TV. It stars Bilal Abbas and Sajal Ali in lead roles. It is written by Saji Gul and is directed by Kashif Nisar, who previously directed "Dumpukht", which also starred Bilal Abbas Khan along with Sonia Mishal and Noman Ijaz. Plot. The story is of stubborn girl, Sassi, who makes her father Khayyam ideal and follows his footsteps and treats her mother Mumtaz "Mammo" (Irsa Ghazal) exactly like how Khayyam treats her. Her maternal cousin Qasim (Bilal Abbas Khan), the serious orphan guy who is ""dye  wala / rang wala”". Qasim starts taking interest in Sassi but stops thinking because of Khayyam's favors on him. Khayyam loves an actress, Sonia Jahan and Sassi starts to follow her footsteps and starts to visit her, and learn from her. One day, on her fathers' birthday, she dances with her. Her father found this thing embarrassed and slaps her for this. Sassi starts hating her father for it, and her father gets her married with Qasim, but Qasim refuses it. Sassi finds solace in Sonia's lover and the director, Waji Kumar and starts working in his films. But  Waji dislikes her because of her father Khayyam who has affair with Sonia. Sassi's eldest brother, Tipu comes from London back to home with his girlfriend, Meena. Tipu is funny, but from inside he is arrogant and stubborn like Sassi and Meena is the British girl who speaks English. While, Sonia poisons Khayyam and escapes because she doesn't love him. Khayyam wakes up and repents over every persecution he did for Sonia Jahan. He is now not able to complete his poetry he did for Sonia. Now meena is taking interest in Islam and has turned Muslim. She  brought Qasim too and told him too choose a name for her. The name he chooses is Amna. Meena (Amna) loves Qasim a lot but Qasim says he can only love Sassi and no one else. Mumtaz says that she wants Qasim to marry Amna and says she will speak to him. Tipu names the house to Meena and decided to marry her to remove Khayam, Sonia, Sassi and Mammo for haveli but Qasim marries Meena (Amna) and thus becomes owner of the house saving the members. Meanwhile, Sonia becomes patient of a crucial disease, all her organs refuse to  work, she becomes unable to speak, all her property is annexed by her producers and she dies in Khayam’s house. Sassi becomes a filmstar with her film “Sonia Jahan” which is a tribute to the life of the actress but when she is insulted by Wajih and she leaves acting and falls in love with Qasim who is no longer in love with her anymore. Qasim starts to fall in love with Amna and Qasim reveals her that she is expecting that Sassi overhears and is jealous. Now crazy to win Qasim back, she pushes Amna. But Amna is  saved, and seeing Sassi's condition, Khayyam requests Amna to permit Qasim to marry Sassi. Amna unwillingly agrees. On the wedding day, Sassi rejects Qasim, saying that he is in love with Amna and not with her anymore. Amna and Qasim are finally together. At the end, Sassi is shown to be dancing like the day she danced with Sonia for her father. Production. Bilal, on the set of "O Rangreza", said that "It’s a beautiful story, I play a dye wala and my whole get-up is like that. I fall in love with a girl played by  Sajal who is my first cousin, and from there the play will unravel and the story will unfold. All the characters involved have their own story to tell which will make "O Rangreza" an interesting watch as it is quite different. Besides Sajal and myself the play will also feature Nauman Ejaz and Sonia Mishal." Soundtrack. Initially, Sahir Ali Bagga sung and composed the song of "O Rangreza". In September 2017, Sajal Aly, who plays protagonist in the serial, also sung parts of song with Sahir, which were also composed by him. All lyrics written by writer of serial, Saji  Gul in the company Moomal Entertainment. Release. Broadcast. The show was simultaneously broadcast by Hum Europe in UK, Hum TV MENA in UAE and Hum World in USA and Canada. Home media and digital release. Initially the show was available on the Hum TV official YouTube channel but later the channel deleted all the episodes. It was also available on the iflix app till 2019 when the channel's contract with the app terminated. In August 2019, Hum TV reuploaded all the episodes on YouTube channel with muted music. Furthermore in July 2020, the show was released on the ZEE5  app along with some other Pakistani dramas.