Chand Tara

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Chand Tara
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Promotional poster
GenreLighthearted [1]
Romantic comedy [2]
Created by Saima Akram Chaudhry
Directed by Danish Nawaz
Starring Danish Taimoor, Ayeza Khan
Country of originPakistan
Original languageUrdu
No. of episodes30
Production
Producer Momina Duraid
CinematographyTameen Nizami
Running timeApprox. 36 minutes
Production company MD Productions
Original release
Network Hum TV
Release23 March (2023-03-23) –
21 April 2023 (2023-04-21)

"Chand Tara" is a 2023 lighthearted romantic comedy Pakistani television series, starring Danish Taimoor and Ayeza Khan in the lead roles. Written by Saima Akram Chaudhry, directed by Danish Nawaz, and produced by MD Productions, the series began airing from 23 March 2023 during Ramadan on Hum TV, and ended on 21 April 2023 after 30 episodes.

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The series failed to achieve the level of popularity compared to Chaudhry's previous Ramadan scripts. [3] Owing to major problems in the execution of her script, she announced a break from writing Ramadan specials. [4]

Premise

The plot centers around Chand (played by Danish Taimoor), a software engineer who resides in a joint family and desires to live independently, and Tara (played by Ayeza Khan), a gynecologist who was raised alone and longs to be part of a joint family. As their love story unfolds, various situations arise among them and their families, illustrating the chaos of living in a joint family. [5] [6] [7]

Plot

Cast

Production

On 13 December 2022, Saima Akram Chaudhry announced the title of her new series; [8] she revealed that the series would stand out from her previous collaborations with Danish Nawaz and Momina Duraid, [9] because the main couple would not be not related as cousins or neighbors, and their love story would not begin with fights. [1]

Soon, it was announced that the celebrity couple Danish Taimoor and Ayeza Khan will star in the next Ramadan play. [10] [11] [12] Khan confirmed her presence on 6 February 2023. [13] [14] Romaisa Khan confirmed her presence in January, [15] while Ghazal Siddiqui shared in March that this is her first series after a hiatus of 11 years. [16] Some of the principal character were eliminated after altering the script by the production house due to budget issues. [17]

Cinematography is done by Tameen Nizami. The background score for the series has been given by Wajid Saeed, while the soundtrack of features two songs. [a] [18]

Original Soundtrack
No.TitleLyricsMusicSingersLength
1."Chand Tara Shadi Song"Sami KhanSami KhanSami Khan, Sara Raza Khan 2:40
2."Chand Tara OST"Ahsan TalishNaveed NashadRafay Israr, Damia Farooq 3:26
Total length:6:06

Notes

  1. ↑ Extracted from YouTube playlist by Hum TV

See also

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