Saraab
2020 Pakistani television series
Saraab (transl. Illusion) is a Pakistani psychological drama television series broadcast on Hum TV from 20 August 2020 to 11 March 2021. It is written by Edison Idrees, directed by Mohsin Talat, and produced by Moomal Shunaid under the banner Moomal Entertainment. It stars Sami Khan as Asfandyar and Sonya Hussain as Hoorain, the former's eventual wife, suffering from schizophrenia.
Plot
Hoorain is different from the people around her and keeps a distance from them. She likes her cousin Asfandyar and wants to marry him. She is ignored by her parents (as her sisters Namal and Warda are clever and sharp-minded) and lives in a separate room on the upper story of the house. These factors contribute to Hoorain becoming a victim of schizophrenia. Things become complicated when she starts to act like a schizophrenic. She has hallucinations and considers everyone her enemy. Asfandyar discovers about her disease and helps her, but things become complicated and interwoven.
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