
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
Acting
Biography
He graduated from Government College University (Lahore) and earned a master's degree in Psychology and a gold medal. He also was a member of the Debating Society of GCU. He rose to prominence during the late 1990s, when he created the sitcom Shashlik which ran for over three years on PTV, while his first television drama as a director was Piya Naam Ka Diya in 2007, in which he acted opposite filmstar Saima Noor and Irum Akhtar. Sarmad then served as executive director for a soap serial named Mujhe Apna Naam-o-Nishan Milay, directed by his sister Kanwal Khoosat. Khoosat's TV drama, Kalmoohi that he wrote and directed, also got good reviews. In 2011, he gained significant prominence and acclaim with the TV drama Pani Jaisa Piyar that aired on Hum TV. It won him the best director award for it on LUX Style Awards. He directed Jal Pari, which was aired on Geo TV. He went on to direct Humsafar for Hum TV, which became an overnight success. His serial Shehr-e-Zaat was especially popular with women.
Known For

The Lux Style Awards is the largest award ceremony held annually in Pakistan since 2002. The awards celebrate "style" in the Pakistani entertainment industry, and it is the oldest event dedicated to cinema, television, fashion, music and film industry in Pakistan.
Lux Style Awards

Ashar and Khirad are forced to get married due to desperate circumstances. Sara is Ashar's childhood friend and believed she would marry Ashar. Khirad is caught within this love-triangle with other internal and external forces at play.
Humsafar

As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
Joyland

Young girl's dream of becoming super star turns into a nightmare as she faces unavoidable dark conspiracy.
Baaghi

A story about a small-town boy, Akbar, who loves cricket and has dream's to play on a national level all his life. His passion leads to his selection in the country’s biggest cricket national league, Lahore Cricket League; upon his journey, he gets to experience it all – the fight against the unjust system, dirty politics, and bias in the industry.
Baarwan Khiladi

Pardes‘ is the story of Ahsan and Zubeda’s sufferings. Zubeda has to go through intense trauma when her husband Ahsan goes abroad for a job. She battles with the agonies inflicted by the ones closest to her and has to take care of her children as well.
Pardes
A Boy is on his way to marry his cousin in Pakistan. He has never experienced the sweetness or the pain of love, though his friend back at home in Turkey, Madiha has only loved him. Madiha is not happy. She tries to stop him but is unable to. Mehr-u-Nisa’s only sister, Zaib-u-Nisa venerates her and devices a master plan to test Him. He falls in love with Zaib-u-Nisa. Even her imperfections appear perfect to him as reason is powerless in the face of love. Will his love stand the test of time?
Ashk

Each episode features a Pakistani celebrity interviewed by Peerzada about their journeys, struggles, challenges and success.
Rewind with Samina Peerzada

Shehr-e-Zaat is a story of young woman's journey as she strives to make up for all the time she has lost in worldly pursuits and finally give in to Allah's will, after learning harsh realities of life she traveled from Self to Subsistence
Shehr-e-Zaat

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The After Moon Show

This show features interviews with celebrities, subject matter experts and members of the public.
Nadia Khan Show

Armaan and Saadi are inseparable best friends who love each other to death like brothers. Aiman comes from America and Armaan falls in love with her. However Saadi begins to like Aiman as well and Aiman begins to like Saadi as well, causing Armaan to corner his feelings for her and this causes him to dislike his own mother who has been against Aiman and has been very cunning, which was coming in front of his eyes finally.
Dil Kiya Karay

A young married woman, who lives with her blind sister-in-law, has been waiting eight years for her husband to return home. One day she is about to drown in the nearby pond when a mysterious wanderer named Amaltas rescues her, unexpectedly changing her life and putting her in a dilemma between her husband and her savior. Will she be able to restrain the force of desire or will she give in to temptation?
Kamli

Bound by love and haunted by fate, Zeba and Sajawal spiral through feelings of desire, superstition and fear in Lali, a darkly comic tale where the living share a restless world with the ghosts.
Lali

The story of Daagh drama serial completely revolves around the life of a house wife named Umama, who has four daughters.
Daagh

A mother and her son's tutor mysteriously disappear, making the community silent with shame and fear. The family remains quiet, leaving everyone wondering where they went. Police investigation reveals a tale of madness and wickedness.
Gunah

The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Manto

Sarmad Khoosat talks in detail about his latest directorial venture; 'Zindagi Tamasha'. From the initial idea to the completion of the film and the journey in between.
Zindagi Tamasha | Behind the Film

Based on the boundary-breaking motorcycle journeys of Zenith Irfan who, at 20 years of age, is the first Pakistani woman to have made a solo motorcycle journey through the northern regions of the country.
Motorcycle Girl

A devout Muslim who writes, composes, and even records hymns praising the Prophet, Muhammad Rahat Khawaja is a respected elderly man who works in real estate and takes care of his bedridden wife. One day, he attends the wedding of a friend's son, where he inadvertently shows off a dance in front of his friends and family. His dance gets recorded and then uploaded to all social media platforms, which then also gets broadcasted on television. And chaos begins to ensue in his quiet life. Other than his wife, no one else in the world understands Rahat's circumstances. His daughters and neighbors criticize him, his friends turn their backs on him