Adil Najam
Some time back I had done a post with the title: Fifty-Fifty: The Best PTV Show Ever and included a clip from the show. The show was loosely based on Saturday Night Live and was the brainchild of Shoaib Mansoor and Anwar Maqsood, with the starring brilliance of Majid Jehangir, Ismail Tara and Zeba Shahnaz. It generated some interesting discussion and much nostalgia. Although not everone agreed it was the best show ever, there was a general sense that it had to be ‘amongst the very best.’
Today we bring you two clips from Fifty-Fifty, which may well be amongst the very best that the show ever offered, and may be amongst the best comedy skits even produced for Pakistan Television. The first of these skits may well be the iconic skit that defined the show in many memories; certainly mine. To those not familair with the Fifty-Fifty mystique or with the music of the time this may not seem all that funny, but when these were first telecast the whole country – quite literally – were talking about them. Enjoy.
so funny dance. i realy like it.
Gone are the days when such a talented, devoted and intelectual personalities like Shoaib Mansoor, Anwar Maqsood and late Mohsin Ali etc, also a number of others, were there. That was golden era of PTV. It was one of the outstanding and classic program PTV ever produced. Like the very best of comedy, it needs no words and is timeless. The great thing about both these clips is that even if you have seen it before, you still enjoy the surprise at the very end.
thanx for providing clips but should unlock to copy
Another two favourite sketches from 50-50 are related to cricket (I have been unable to find them on youtube postings).
When Pakistan toured India for the first time in years and years, and Imran Khan missed a game or two because of injury, fifty-fifty sang that classic of Ghalib (tune as in Suraiya’s version)
“Arre Imran tujhe hua kya hai
akhir tere dard ki dawa kya..”
and there Ode to One Day Cricket when it was fairly new (based on the “One Way Ticket” tune
One day cricket(x5)
Ka hae rule
Tez- tez khel
aage ho ke khel
boundary he baar
chauke-chchakke maar
oye time zaaya na kar ve phazool
can’t remember the rest.
Such gup was of course, another classic.
Fifty-Fifty fans, the clips from teh show are now much better organized on YouTube and can be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo_WlQKJEco
Complete 50 50 Show ( More then 2 Hours )
Part1:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4608225835401908455&q=Fifty Fifty
Part2:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1705782165660556260&q=Fifty Fifty
Part3:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7462207539145737019&q=Fifty Fifty
Part4:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5130538889229168036&q=Fifty Fifty
Part5:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=814842862610671681&q=Fifty Fifty
I think one of the funniest skits i recall from Fifty fifty is a parody on Alamgir’s song ‘Daykh Tera kya rang kar diya hae/ Khushboo ka Jhonka tayray sang kar diya hae’. Initially the camera only shows the face of the man lip synching to the song. Towards the end the camera zooms out and you see an overflowing garbage dump in the middle of a street.