Released: November 1998. KTV production.
Starring Nadia Khan, Sadia Hussain, Afzal Ali, Farhan Agha, Qazi Wajid, Javeria
Jalil, Jiya Ali, Badar Khalil, and Shagufta Ijaz. Directed by Fahim Burney.
Written by Seema Ghazal.
Good title song..yes of course, but that's where it ends. The drama runs endlessly
for 12 episodes when it could have been finished in about 8 by cutting out the
pointless talks and repetitious dialogues between most of the characters, and
the Dubai scenery. The story is of leftmenu cousins who are to inherit their parents'
money only if they get married, but both of them hate eachother (played by Farhan
and Nadia). Both of them go their separate 
ways
to have new experiences in life. The story focuses more on Nadia's life than
on Farhan's.
Qazi Wajid lends his humor to the scenes which makes his scenes watchable. Shagufta
Ijaz is actually funny as the mean saas. Nadia is back in her role of
the stupid girl with a golden heart who cares about everyone but no one seems
to understand her very well. Jiya Ali can't act and I expected Farhan to save
the scenes but he failed terribly...thus I made good use of the FFwd button.
The scenes between Afzal Ali and Nadia were funny (maybe stupid) at first but
then they just got monotonous. Afzal's serious dialogues actually turned out
to be funny since he couldn't perform really well. He does save some of his
image by the act of kindness towards the end. The little girl playing Sara was
quite irritating (another good use of the FFwd button). Nadia can perform serious
roles if she's given the chance but unfortunately she's been stereotyped into
the pagal larki turned serious grown-up roles. Afzal starts out as a
smuggler but somehow that side of the story abruptly ends without the viewers
knowing whatever happened!
Fahim Burney had given us a good drama with Khali Haath, but unfortunately you
come out of Manzilain empty handed.
Other Comments:
Nice drama. Afzal Ali has done a good job. -Urooj