After the encouraging response to his film `Zindagi Tamasha` (2019), acclaimed Pakistani director-actor Sarmad Khoosat has returned to helm and front an episode of Yaar Julahay. The second episode will have Khoosat showcasing Sahitya Akademi, Jnanpith and Padma Bhushan awardee Qurratulain Hyder’s classic short story, Nazzarah Darmyan Hai. The first episode, also directed by Khoosat, featured Mahira Khan as she did a dramatic reading of Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi’s classic, Guriya.

Nazzarah Darmyan Hai is a short story about Khurshid Aalam, a talented violinist who ditches his Parsi fiancée Peroja Dastur, a classical pianist, for a rich woman, Almas Begum. Hyder has woven together class differences, societal norms, economic needs and unwanted compromises that force lovers to part ways in this story. “The story conveys a lifetime of longing, and is an ode to love and loss,” says Khoosat of the episode that will stream this week on Zee Theatre.