One of Lollywood's most bankable stars has confirmed a move that fans have been whispering about for months: a self-produced streaming series that promises to blend big-screen scale with the intimacy of long-form television.
Speaking at a low-key media roundtable in Lahore, the actor described the project as the most personal work of a two-decade career, built around stories that rarely make it to a mainstream Pakistani screen.
A new kind of Pakistani story
The series will reportedly span multiple cities and languages, with a writers' room that mixes veteran screenwriters and first-time voices discovered through an open submission call earlier this year.
We are done waiting for permission to tell our own stories at the scale they deserve. This is Pakistan, unfiltered and cinematic.
Production insiders say the budget is among the largest ever committed to a Pakistani streaming original, with location shoots planned from the northern valleys to the Karachi coastline.
- An eight-episode first season, with a second already in outline.
- Original score recorded with a live ensemble in Lahore.
- Simultaneous Urdu and English subtitle tracks for a diaspora audience.
No streaming partner has been officially named, but three major platforms are said to be in the running. An announcement is expected before the end of the year.
