Gul e Rana

Synopsis

The series revolves around a girl who is struggling for the rights of women after being abused by poor mentality people of the society. After marriage, men don’t give respect to women and treat them badly. Gul-e-Rana (Sajjal Ali) tries her best to transform Adeel's mentality about women and faced many problems during this period. In the end, adeel has an accident and transforms in a good person.It is shown in the drama that gul e rana leaves adeel for some time and becomes an ordinary teacher.

Plot

Series is a story of emotions, trust, relations and sympathy. It gives a note on forgiveness.

Gul-e-Rana's father dies in a car accident, and consequently her rich uncle, takes Rana, her sister and her mother under his wings. Rana's both Aunts hate her and warn her that all her uncle's money is for them. Meanwhile, Maria and Laila, daughters of Gul-e-Rana's aunts, are willing to do anything to marry Adeel who is the only son of Raana's uncle. Gul-e-Rana is very different from her cousins, as Rana exhibits the traits of a well-groomed and modest girl. Unlike Gul-e-Rana, her cousin Adeel is egotistic and narcissistic. To him girls are merely a means of pass time and pleasure. He considers Gul-e-Rana perfect to marry as she wouldn’t have a say in his personal life and tries every way to trick her but she pays no heed. Meanwhile, Zafri, Rana's cousin is interested in her and wants to marry her to ensure that Maria and Adeel can marry without any hurdles.One night, Adeel misbehaves with Rana. She slaps him hard on his face. Adeel knits a sinister plan i.e. the very next morning he apologises to Raana and ask for her forgiveness for his last night's mis-behaviour. That afternoon he picks Raana from college and lies that her mother is very ill and is admitted in the hospital. He takes Raana to a faraway deserted house, arranges for a Maulvi and his friends help to organize a Nikaah, leaving her with a choice to choose between him and her honour. She decides to marry Adeel but vows to get revenge. Rana's mother finds out about their 'supposed love' and is shell-shocked. Eventually Adeel and Rana get married while everybody assumes that they love each other; Adeel and Rana torture each other. Rana disobeys and ignores everything Adeel tells her in order to show him where he stands in her life. Adeel suspects that something is going on between Gul-e-Rana and Ashar (Rana's cousin) while Rana just sees Ashar as a friend. Adeel goes to Islamabad. Then Adeel brings Rana to Islamabad with him by lying to his father that he wants Rana to take care of him while he is sick. Adeel and Rana continue to play Tom and Jerry with each other. Adeel's friend Mona comes to stay with them. Adeel tries to rape her but at the same time when Gul-e-Rana opens the door, Adeel runs out of embarrassment.
Rana calls Adeel an animal and Adeel slaps her. Adeel feels guilty but still doesn't quit being the "bad boy". Adeel calls Maria and other girls to make Rana jealous. She says to him that she doesn't feel anything (but through her expressions it is clear that she does feel something). Rana calls Asher Bhai and says she misses him. Adeel's catches Rana in front of Taya Abu and acts like she is having an affair with someone else. Taya Abu gets angry at Rana but she doesn't try to prove her innocence (as she believed that Taya Abu will not believe her as his own son is standing against her).Now Rana is thinking about how the life has brought such a turn in his life.Taya abbu returns, advising Rana to compromise.he says Adeel is immature but Rana is a wise girl and sacrifices are a part of married life. This way Taya Abbu returns without taking Rana with him who was supposed to attend Ashar Bhai's wedding. Now Maria visits Murree with underlying motives. Adeel goes to pick her up. On their way back they enjoy the scenery and take pictures. When they return it's quiet late. Gul-e-Rana tells Gul bibi to set up the dinner for her. Maria and Adeel come. Maria behaves rudely. Adeel comes to know that Gul-e-Rana no more lives in the same room with him. He mocks her and tells her that he will soon get someone else to fill up that empty space. Rana congratulates him on this, but is unhappy and Gul bibi advises her to fight for her right but Gul-e-Rana leaves Murree and goes to Karachi. Meanwhile, Ashar's father meets with an accident and dies. Here in Maria informs her mother that Rana has left and also spreads this news to her cousin and another probable suitor. Mamu comes to know. He visits Mari and slaps Adeel after Maria acts as the victim.
Now Maria and her mother have conspired to get Adeel married to Maria by falsely alleging him of relations with Maria on the promise that he would marry her. Adeel visits Ashar's house to take back Rana forcefully. Ashar shows courage and supports Rana. Rana goes into the house with Ashar and Adeel is flabbergasted. Taya abu wants adeel to marry maria or he says that he would not give adeel his inherhitance. Adeel flees to murree and taya abu doesn't pressurize him to marry maria.
Adeel has an accident and is badly injured. Kamal encourages Gul-e-Rana to go to Murree and take care of Adeel as a wife would do. Gul-e-rana goes to Murree and takes good care of Adeel. She makes sure that Adeel takes all his medicines and eats properly. Adeel's attitude towards Rana begins to change day by day. At first he makes Rana do all his chores. He even says the difference between a wife and a maid is that a maid takes payment. He contemplates his situation and tries to ponder over what he did wrong.
He suddenly asks Rana to stop doing his chores and that he wants to sit and talk with Rana, to which Rana replies she has nothing to talk to and that Adeel's words have only hurt her.

Cast

Development and casting

Gul-e-Rana was created by the Six Sigma Plus productions and M.D production's partner ship. It was produced by Hum TV's chairman Momina Duraid, and famous actor and producer Humayun Saeed. Producers hired Farooq Rind for direction, who was the director of channel's famous series Laa Rishtay Kuch Adhooray Se, Mere Meherbaan. The screenplay for the serial is written by Simra Bukhari, the series is based on her novel Hasti ke Ahang. In late July 2015, Humayun Saeed and Shehzad Naseed came on board as a co-producers. Song composition is done by Waqar Ali, the series was given the 20:00 (PST) time slot and aired on Saturday evenings as a part of Duraid's night programming. The series replaced Duraid's TV series Mol. It was previously decided that the series will replace Jugno but post production delays were held and It was decided that the series will now replace Mol.

Casting

Producers mutually chose the cast which includes Sajjal Ali, Feroz Khan, Behroze Sabzwari, Mehmood Akhtar, Sundas Tariq and Farah Shah. Sajjal Ali was selected to portray the leading role of Gul-e-Rana opposite to Feroz Khan, who was chooses to portray the role of Adeel, the couple marked their second appearance after there series Chup Raho. Behroze Sabzwari and Rubina Ashraf played the role of Aziz and Muneera i.e. Rana's parents while Farah Shah, Mehmood Akhtar performed the role of Adeel's parents. Samina Ahmad finalised to portray a negative role along with Saleem Mairaj and Sundas Tariq. Saadia, who portrayed the role of Laila was given a role of bold girl first time in her life.

Filming

Shooting began in June 2015 and finished in October 2015, with total 21 episodes. Teasers were released in October along with the OST of serial. Shooting was extensively done in hilly areas of Pakistan and the production house divided the filming with half the episodes being shot in Karachi and half thee episodes being shot in Murree and Nathia Gali. Six Sigma Plus Productions chose scenic areas for posters teasers and drop back scenes to make the serial more attractive and unique. In early October, Hum TV released promos of the serial which were heavily praised for their shooting locations and cast.

Music

The title song of Gul-e-Rana was composed by musician Waqar Ali who also did background. The soundtrack consists songs, in Urdu language. Lyrics for songs were written by Sabir Zafar. The lines of the song are frequently used during the course of the show. The original sound track was released on November 6, 2015 with the teaser trailer of serial. The song along with production is produced by Momina Duraid under her production company M.D Productions.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Sabir Zafar; all music composed by Waqar Ali.

Critical Reception

The drama series became popular soon after it released due to its story-line and cast. It made Hum TV the slot leader on Saturdays. Gul-e-Rana achieved record ratings after achieving a TRP of 7.2 as its highest rating (over the 15-minute time slot of 8:30 pm – 8:45 pm) on 19 December 2015. Coincidentally, Chup Raho, the first show of Sajal Ali and Feroze Khan, achieved its highest rating of 7.3 TRPs. Over the 70-minute time slot (8 pm – 9:10 pm) on the same day, Gul-e-Rana achieved a TRP of 5.4, making it the most watched drama of the festive season. Not only did the 7th episode of Gul-e-Rana gain high ratings, but the 9th episode also had extremely high ratings. Gul-e-Rana achieved a TRP of 6.4 (over the 10-minute time slot of 8:50 pm – 9:00 pm) on 2 January 2016. Over the 70-minute time slot (8 pm – 9:10 pm) on the same day, Gul-e-Rana achieved a TRP of 4.7. Once again, Gul-e-Rana achieved exceptional ratings as its 10th episode aired on 9 January 2016, grabbed 6.7 TRPs (over the 10-minute time slot of 8:50 pm – 9:00 pm). Over the 70-minute time slot (8 pm – 9:10 pm) on the same day, Gul-e-Rana achieved a TRP of 4.5. Gul-e-Rana achieved exceptional ratings as its 11th episode aired on 16 January 2016, grabbed 5.2 TRPs (over the 15-minute time slot of 8:45 pm – 9:00 pm). Over the 70-minute time slot (8 pm – 9:10 pm) on the same day, Gul-e-Rana achieved a TRP of 3.6 .Then it's 15th episode gained extremely high rating which was 7.2 . No wonder gul e rana is a really popular drama. It's 16th episode got a trp 6.2 which was extremely high. In the last episode, people tweeted about Gul-e-Rana so much, that it trended on no. 1 spot in an hour. The last episode had a huge amount of ratings with a TRP of 8.8.