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Digest writer
- YouTube Rank
- #906
- Average YouTube Views
- 640.87K
- Episodes/Videos
- 24
About Digest writer
Farida (Saba Qamar) is a middle-class woman with a private, stubborn ambition: to become one of the country's leading digest writers. Talent is only the beginning. Social pressure, money troubles, family expectations and the gatekeeping of the literary and television worlds keep turning her chosen path into an obstacle course. Writing under the name Rashk-e-Hina, she tries to protect both her voice and her dignity as professional opportunity brings fresh compromises. Around her, Shaukat (Gohar Rasheed), Jameela (Maheen Khalid Rizvi) and a lively circle of writers, relatives and industry figures reveal how status and ego shape whose stories are taken seriously. Digest Writer turns Farida's climb from aspiring author toward scriptwriting into a warm but clear-eyed portrait of creative labor. It is less interested in overnight success than in the cost of persisting when every practical force tells a talented woman to shrink her dream. Saba Qamar gives that struggle a pulse, making Farida's determination feel intimate, bruised and thoroughly worth rooting for.
Editor’s Take
Digest Writer's sharpest move is letting Farida's ambition feel like labor, not a decorative trait. Saba Qamar makes every small setback sting, while Madiha Shahid's script gives the world of writing enough ego and friction to bite. Our one gripe? A few developments ask for more faith than they earn, the same loose stitching noted by contemporary reviewers. Still, its grounded heroine and refusal to reduce her dream to marriage make this an unusually satisfying watch.
Details
- Channel
- HumTV
- Genres
- Drama
View History
Cast And Crew
Cast
- Saba Qamar as Fareeda/Rashk-e-Hina
- Gohar Rasheed as Shaukat
- Maheen Rizvi as Jameela
- Khalid Ahmed as Mazhar Hayat
- Zhalay Sarhadi as Rida Anmol
- Farhan Ally Agha as Sikandar
- Aiman Khan as Shakeela
- Kashif Mehmood as Ayaan Junaid
- Aagha Ali as Sheheryar
- Mehmood Akhtar as Anwar
- Sajida Syed as Zareena
- Parveen Akbar as Sajida
- Mizna Waqas as Shazia (Fareeda's college friend)
- Sarah Umair as Mahroosh
- Saife Hassan as Rehaan Khan
- Ali Anwar as Dr Farhan
- Ghazala Javed as Bint e Hawa
Director
Writer
Episodes
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- Episode 1 Digest Writer Episode #02 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 2 Digest Writer Episode #03 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 3 Digest Writer Episode #04 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 4 Digest Writer Episode #05 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 5 Digest Writer Episode #06 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 6 Digest Writer Episode #07 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 7 Digest Writer Episode #08 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 8 Digest Writer Episode #09 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 9 Digest Writer Episode #10 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 10 Digest Writer Episode #11 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 11 Digest Writer Episode #12 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 12 Digest Writer Episode #13 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 13 Digest Writer Episode #14 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 14 Digest Writer Episode #15 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 15 Digest Writer Episode #16 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 16 Digest Writer Episode #17 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 17 Digest Writer Episode #18 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 18 Digest Writer Episode #19 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 19 Digest Writer Episode #20 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 20 Digest Writer Episode #21 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 21 Digest Writer Episode #22 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 22 Digest Writer Episode #23 HUM TV Drama
- Episode 23 Digest Writer Last Episode HUM TV Drama
- Episode 24 Digest Writer Episode #01 HUM TV Drama