Tanhayiaan ~ the Loneliness
There is a tune from my childhood. One I remember practicing endlessly on my sister’s Casio piano. The first one I proudly learnt and shared with my family, at eight years old! It is the theme music by Arshad Mehmood, from “Tanhaiyaan”, my favorite Pakistani serial, written by Haseena Moin, which came on PTV in 1986. Whenever I hear the tune I am transported back to the round wooden door-frame of my beloved TV heroine’s home, the beautiful and brave Zara (no coincidence I love her even more as we share the same first name) played by the brilliant Shahnaz Sheikh. Her pink panther-loving sister, Sanya played by the hilarious Marina Khan. A story of a family like mine. Loving parents with daughters and a happy home. Tragedy strikes, when the girls are away visiting their Zubi khala, (Badar Khalil) in Karachi and their parents die in a tragic car accident, forever changing everything for them. After their death, the girls discover that their father, a successful actor was s
