Dhoop Kinare (Urdu: دھوپ کنارے) meaning at the edge of the sunshine in Urdu was a Pakistani television serial presented by the PTV network.It make records of popularity and TRPs(Television Rating Points) in Pakistan. The show centres around a team of doctors in a hospital in Karachi and revolves around their routines at the hospital and private lives at home. The show starred Rahat Kazmi and Marina Khan in lead roles, was directed by Sahira Kazmi and written by Haseena Moin.
In the early days of PTV, drama serials were usually applauded for being richly diverse in their plots and direction. They were celebrated not just in Pakistan but their quality content was cherished over the border in India as well. A long list of such dramas may usually include Dhoop Kinare as one of those at the top. The drama serial enjoyed seemingly undeniable success for two further decades after it finished airing on television. This serial is usually said to have promoted the careers of both Rahat Kazmi and Marina Khan as one of the most sought after stars in Pakistani television industry.
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Dr Ahmer Ansari (Rahat Kazmi) is bereaving the death of his foster father (played by Arshad Mehmood) whom he calls Baba, an affectionate word for father in Urdu. He vaguely remembers that the professor adopted him but has no knowledge that his father had a daughter and that she gave birth to a girl who lives some where in the same city.
In his will, Ahmer's father leaves behind everything but the house to Ahmer. The house he leaves to his granddaughter, Ahmer's niece, whom he had never met while he was still alive. Ahmer while trying to reminisce his past encounters with his father (shown to the viewers in flashback sequences) gathers the true meaning of the two-faced replies of his father.
Throughout the first few episodes, Ahmer couldn't come to terms with the death of his foster father and the sudden emergence of his niece who now owns the house he lives in and expects a responsible person to take over his father's abode. Incidentally, this foster niece appears in his hospital as an intern. While he does not know who she is, he finds the immature and almost childish Zoya Ali Khan. From the time he meets Zoya, he plans to educate her behaviour by criticising her at every turn of event and to teach her a lesson in accepting her mistakes.
Dr Zoya Ali Khan (Marina Khan) is a cheerful young doctor who brings joy to the mundane life at the hospital and in the life of Ahmer. Although, her carefree attitude leaves no other choice but for Ahmer to educate her into humility when life demands a lot from the seriousness it gather along its way.
The series starts with a young Zoya trying hard to convince her father (Qazi Wajid) to not let her go to medical school, but instead gets to know that her dying grandfather and mother both wanted her to be a doctor. A phone call that her father attends gives her the much needed cheers for the day when the person on the other end explains that she just inherited a house that belonged to her grandfather.
Seeing that her father wants her to become a doctor to celebrate her dead mother's wishes, she takes admission in a medical school upon her father's constant pressurising. Not knowing that she'd meet Ahmer at the hospital, she retains her carefree antics in the seriousness of the hospital life and comes in critique of Ahmer.
Arshad Mehmood plays "Baba", the father of Dr Ahmer Ansari (played by Rahat Kazmi). He appears in Dream sequences from Dr Ahmer's past.
The music of the drama serial was directed by Arshad Mehmood and some of the ghazals were performed by Nayyara Noor including "Main tum se na puchun", "Raat yun dil mein teri" and "Hansi khanakti hui" (the theme song).
