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Satrangi

album by Fawad Afzal Khan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ24927878
Source-derived summary

Satrangi (English: Seven Colors of Rainbow) is a 2008 Pakistani travel adventure drama series produced and directed by Imran Hussain, which broadcast on Geo TV. Jawad Daud wrote the drama. This drama was the first of its kind as it focussed on what youngsters think, what they are going through and how their families do not understand their problems. Though this series did not get much publicity, youngsters loved it as they could easily relate to the story.

Plot summary

It is a story of seven friends (four boys and three girls) who came from different backgrounds and clashed with their parents. They all decided to leave their homes and go somewhere to live on their terms. They travelled the whole of Pakistan from Karachi to Azad Kashmir. They started their journey from Karachi and went on to visit all of the provinces of Pakistan. On that journey, they went to all the famous and historical places. Their trials were also shown, from family issues to love affairs and humour to suspense. It was a mixture of travel, adventure and struggles.

Editorial summary

“Satrangi” enters the record as album by Fawad Afzal Khan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Satrangi, album and Fawad can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Satrangi, album and Fawad.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Satrangi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Satrangi, album and Fawad provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24927878. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from Satrangi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.