Adil Najam
The legendary PTV (Pakistan Television) comedy skit-show from the 1980’s Fifty-Fifty may well be the greatest (one of the greatest?) PTV shows ever. Based loosely on US comedy show Saturday Night Live, it was a revolutionary concept and literally ruled the airwaves like very few shows ever have, before or since.
This is my continuing testimony to the brilliance of Shoaib Mansoor, but in this case it was also the writing excellence of Anwar Maqsood and the versitality of the acting trio Ismail Tara, Majid Jehangir and Zeba Shahnaz which made this show a must-see every week. Here is a short clip from the show. Enjoy!
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See more video clips from Fifty-Fifty here.
This post is interesting timing as I had already been thinking about the sorry state of comedy programs in Pakistan now. Though I do happen to think there also have been other great comedy shows on PTV by Anwar Maqsood, such as Showtime etc. Will do a blogpost upon it soon. But this clip was a good idea.
Definitely the best Comedy to come out of Pakistan yet !!! Anybody know if there are more on the web ?
Owais sahab, thank you for rekindling those faded memories of Fifty Fifty…My personal favourite is about the cop pulling over the motorbike rider for speeding and the biker said that his name was “Mustansar Hussain Tararr” !!!
Well nice share Adil Bhai ! Keep sharing as I dont rememeber it anymore as I was supposed to be a kid at that time and I just remember one or two characters out of them. So I will like to have more.
Thanks again.
Owais sahab you invaded Adil bhai’s blog:D *joke*
A very hilarious sitauation was once depicted in the famous PTV
program Fifty-Fifty. They showed 2 ‘Bakras’ on the eve of ‘Eid-ul-
Azha’ looking at each other and in the back ground they played a
Romantic-Punjabi song of ‘Madam’ Noor Jehan which had lyrics like
this:
chal chaliyay dunya de os nukRay
jithay banda na banday di zaat ho way
Trasnslation:
chalo chaleN dunya ke os konay
jahaN banda na banday ki zaat ho