Drama: PARIZAAD

The story revolves around a dark-skinned college student, Parizaad. Parizaad is someone who has grown up with self esteem and confidence issues. Despite society's judgement of him, he is very hardworking, extremely respectful and well-mannered and creates a lasting impression on anyone he meets. This drama takes us along his journey of the friends and enemies he meets along his life as he tackles with his inner fight of choosing his true passion of poetry or choosing a realistic job that can provide income for his family. Parizaad is an innocent boy living in Rawalpindi with his brothers. Due to his dark skin, he is often ridiculed. His brothers and sister in laws are greedy and consider him to be a liability. Only his sister Saeeda loves him. But she is also married to an old man due to family pressure. Parizaad loves Naheed. But Naheed is in love with Majid.

One day Parizaad is falsely accused of giving a love letter to Naheed at her house. Naheed's father slaps Parizaad in front of everyone. After learning that Naheed loves Majid and it was Majid who was at her terrace that night, Parizaad wanted to kill himself, but is saved by Ahmad. On the other hand, Naheed gets married to Majid. After this he meets Bubly who considers herself to be a 'tomboy', As Parizaad is in desperately in need of money for his sister, he agrees to marry Bubly in order to get dowry. But before all this Bubly run's away from her house.

Then Parizaad meets Lubna, a rich girl and starts developing a liking for her, but her mother fixes her marriage with a rich businessman, she also rebukes Parizaad regarding his poetry and asks him to focus on becoming a rich man. Then Parizaad moves to Karachi where he starts working for a big business mafia, the Don Behroze Karim who owns a mafia empire. Parizaad initially works as a shift supervisor in the factory of Don Behroze. Don Behroze getting inspired from Parizaad's truthfulness and bravery, appoints him as the bodyguard of his wife named Layla Saba. Parizaad was also ordered to give all the information about Layla to Behroze. Layla is disloyal to Behroze and uses Parizaad's innocence so as to meet her lover. Behroze learns about this and he kills both Layla and her lover, but spares Parizaad. As Layla's lover was from a powerful background, hence Behroze gets trapped in his murder case. Behroze sends Parizaad to Guru so that Parizaad remains safe. There Parizaad meet Bubly who was adopted by Guru, Parizaad reconciles Bubly with her parents. After returning to Karachi, Parizaad takes all the blame and is sent to jail. Finally it is known that Behroze was the one who killed both Layla and her lover. Before being caught, Behroze kills himself and gives all his wealth to Parizaad as a reward for his loyalty.

After becoming rich and coming out of jail, Parizaad sees that now everybody respects him as now he is a wealthy man. Even people have no problem with his dark skin. His brothers and sister in laws due to their greed shows affection and love towards Parizaad. Parizaad again meets Lubna who is now a divorcee and a flop actress, Parizaad decides to finance her films. During this he also meets Ahmad. Parizaad now again meets Naheed who is now in a poor condition as her husband is now a good for nothing man. Naheed's father apologises to Parizaad as he is now aware that Parizaad was innocent that time. Parizaad arranges a job for Nahaeed's sister and for Majid. Naheed too now have a change in heart for Parizaad due to his wealth and tries to reconnect with him, which Parizaad declines.

At the end he meets Annie, a radio host, who is a blind girl and a die hard fan of Parizaad not because of his wealth but truly because of his poetry. Parizaad also develops a feeling for her, but is afraid that he might again get rejected due to his dark skin, once Annie gets back her eyesight. Annie's cousin, a new character, Sharjeel, also interferes with Parizaad's love, by confessing his plans to propose once Annie gets back her eyesight, not knowing Parizaad is in love with Annie. Parizaad in a moment of weakness decides to have Sharjeel killed by his bodyguard, Akbar, however his inner self stops him. Heartbroken once again realizing that even with money and power he is unable to capture true love, Parizaad leaves Karachi, leaving all his wealth. He starts to work as a teacher in a village away from modern life. No one knows about Parizaad's whereabouts as he discreetly leaves behind everything. Annie meets Parizaad while working as an news anchor, but fails to recognize him as he has changed his name. After hearing his voice and touching his face, she recognizes him and both of them confess their love for each other and the story ends with Parizaad finally getting his love. Annie and Parizaad plan on opening a Urdu academy in the Village. Annie plans on working as an assistant for the Urdu academy while starting her radio broadcast from the village.