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Chalawa
- YouTube Rank
- #566
- Average YouTube Views
- 1.91M
- Episodes/Videos
- 22
About Chalawa
Horror is rare territory for Pakistani television, and Chalawa plants its flag firmly in the supernatural. The story follows Sawera, a young woman marked since birth by a chalawa, a malevolent jinn that has shadowed her family across generations. Raised by her devoted mother Mahnoor, Sawera grows up sensing that something unseen wants to claim her, and the ordinary rhythms of love, family, and marriage keep colliding with a darkness that refuses to let go. Naveen Waqar, Ali Ansari, Noor Zafar Khan, and Usama Khan anchor a cast asked to sell dread rather than domestic melodrama, moving the show from creaking houses to a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Directed by Najaf Bilgrami and Shamoon Abbasi and written by Shahid Nizami, it trades the usual love triangles for possession, suspense, and a heroine fighting to hold on to her own soul.
Editor’s Take
Give Chalawa credit for nerve: in a landscape drowning in saas-bahu tears and love triangles, it commits fully to jinns, possession, and genuine edge-of-your-seat dread, and that originality is its real hook. The premise is refreshing and the fear actually lands. Our gripe? The scripting and direction can turn amateurish, leaning on jump-scare shorthand when the mood was already doing the heavy lifting. Still, as homegrown horror goes, it's a bold, watchable swing worth taking.
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Cast And Crew
Cast
- Naveen Waqar as Mahnoor
- Ali Ansari as Harib Khanzada / Sarnash (when possessed by him)
- Noor Zafar Khan as Sawera Ahmed Turk
- Usama Khan as Sarosh / Kaafur (when possessed by the Chalawa Kaafur)
- Samina Ahmed as Khala / Dadi
- Adnan Jaffar as Professor Faraz Hamdani
- Naveed Raza as Fawaad
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Episodes
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- Episode 1 Chalawa Last Episode HUM TV Drama 4 April 2021
- Episode 2 Chalawa Episode 21 HUM TV Drama 28 March 2021
- Episode 3 Chalawa Episode 20 HUM TV Drama 21 March 2021
- Episode 4 Chalawa Episode 19 HUM TV Drama 14 March 2021
- Episode 5 Chalawa Episode 18 HUM TV Drama 7 March 2021
- Episode 6 Chalawa Episode 17 HUM TV Drama 28 February 2021
- Episode 7 Chalawa Episode 16 HUM TV Drama 21 February 202
- Episode 8 Chalawa Episode 15 HUM TV Drama 14 February 2021
- Episode 9 Chalawa Episode 14 HUM TV Drama 7 February 2021
- Episode 10 Chalawa Episode 13 HUM TV Drama 31 January 2021
- Episode 11 Chalawa Episode 12 HUM TV Drama 24 January 2021
- Episode 12 Chalawa Episode 11 HUM TV Drama 17 January 2021
- Episode 13 Chalawa Episode 10 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 10 January 2021
- Episode 14 Chalawa Episode 9 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 3 January 2021
- Episode 15 Chalawa Episode 8 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 27 December 2020
- Episode 16 Chalawa Episode 7 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 20 December 2020
- Episode 17 Chalawa Episode 6 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 13 December 2020
- Episode 18 Chalawa Episode 5 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 6 December 2020
- Episode 19 Chalawa Episode 4 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 29 November 2020
- Episode 20 Chalawa Episode 3 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 22 November 2020
- Episode 21 Chalawa Episode 2 HUM TV Drama 15 November 2020
- Episode 22 Chalawa Episode 1 | English Subtitles | HUM TV Drama 8 November 2020