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Deewar-e-Shab

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How it feels

The series is set in the Heeramandi district of Lahore and follows the lives of courtesans and nobility in the early 20th century. It focuses on their personal struggles, power dynamics, and the social changes happening around them.

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What happens

Deewar-e-Shab (Urdu: دیوار شب, lit. 'Wall of Night') is a 2019 Pakistani historical drama television series, based on the history of Heeramandi created and produced by Momina Duraid of MD Productions, and directed by Iqbal Hussain. It is the dramatization of the novel of the same name by Aliya Bukhari. The series has Nausheen Shah, Sarah Khan, Shehzad Sheikh, Shehroz Sabzwari, Bushra Ansari, Asma Abbas, Kinza Hashmi, Anmol Baloch, Hira Soomro and Osama Tahir as leading actors while Zara Noor Abbas, Iqbal Ansari and Mohsin Abbas Haider also make extended cameo appearances. The series premiered from 8 June 2019 to 21 March 2020 on Hum TV. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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