Guest House (TV series)
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Written by | Qaiser Farooq Muhammad Nisar Shakir Uzair |
| Directed by | Rauf Khalid |
| Starring | Khalid Hafeez Sarwat Ateeque Afzal Khan Tariq Malik |
| Country of origin | Pakistan |
| Original language(s) | Urdu |
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| Original network | Pakistan Television Corporation PTV |
Guest House (Urdu script: گیسٹ ہاؤس) is a 1991 Pakistani comedy-drama series directed by Rauf Khalid which was produced and shown by PTV in early to middle 1990s. The setting is a fictional guest house named Guest House located in a posh area of Islamabad. It is run by Mr. Shameem and his wife with the help of three permanent regular employees Naveed, Murad and Rambo.
The story of every episode starts with the arrival of new guests and the involvement of guest house's employees in their comic and tragic situations. Almost each episode ended with the guest's problems solved by the help of all-too-readily helpful employees and reluctant owners of the guesthouse.
The pilot episode introduces the janitor of the guest house, 'John Rambo', in a very dramatic way. He is holding a janitor's wiper like a rifle or machine gun and a thrilling background music is playing. Camera moves in a way that the wiper actually looked like a rifle at the beginning of the scene. Later it turns out that 'John Rambo, Cockroach Killer' is inspired by the main character of the Hollywood movie First Blood. Rambo was an instant hit and played a vital role in the popularity of the series. Producers wanted to remove the character of Rambo after the pilot episode, but its success made them decide otherwise. One of the producers admitted on TV that after the success of Rambo in the pilot episodes, he was the focus of every episode.
All the main characters associated with the guest house are shown as very simple people and, on several occasions, have been fooled by charlatans posing as PEERS (fake jogis) or film directors. They tend to get involoved in personal matters of their guests and try to resolve their issues.
Mr. Sharneem is the founder and owner of the guest house. His age is between mid forties to mid fifties. In one episode titled ("Billi Chali Susral"), his wife confirms his age to be 55, he however contradicts her saying he is "just 45", judging from the context of the scene, his age appears to be 55. Although he is very faithful to his wife, she always suspects him having an affair and/or having another wife mostly because he likes to flirt and has been caught doing so on many occasions, especially with small-time female celebrities who stay at the guest house. He is financially very stingy and doesn't like his wife's occasional shopping sprees; which are the main cause of their domestic problems.
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