List of Bulbulay characters explained

The characters from the Pakistan sitcom television series Bulbulay based on their respective counterparts.

Main characters

Name	Role	Starring episodes
Nabeel^[1]	Nabeel	1 – present
A lazy, greedy and selfish man who does not find a job and is always in search for a way to make quick money, often making investments using his wife's money just to find out they were frauds. He is Momo and Rushu's son, Mehmood's step-son, Khoobsoorat's husband, Sona's half-brother and Chaandi's father. He depends on the money his father-in-law Siddiqui sends to Khoobsoorat. Although he is married to Khoobsoorat, he is often seen flirting with other women albeit without success. His wife never gets insecure, given his inability to pick girls up.
Ayesha Omar^[2]	Khoobsurat	1 – present
Nabeel's wife. She is the only sensible character, but can get greedy at times. She often tells Nabeel to get a job. She is Siddiqui's daughter. Her mother died when she was very young. Whenever Nabeel says something stupid, she says "Shut Up, Nabeel						" to which Nabeel replies "Okay, Jaanu!" (meaning Okay darling	) She hates the fact that her father pays the rent for the house and wants Nabeel to pay the rent instead. She often reminds Nabeel and his family that they are living on her father's money. She sometimes fights with Momo but actually Momo and Khoobsoorat love each other very much.
	Mehmood Sahab	1 – present
Nabeel's step-father, Sona's father and Momo's second husband. Despite his old age, he tells his wife that this is his first marriage. However, in season 2 episode 247, it’s revealed that he was married to Parveen And had a son named Vicki, whom he abandoned. He retired from his old job many years ago, and also receives some pension. He tries to makes him and his wife's life as comfortable as possible.
Hina Dilpazeer^[3]	Momo/Mumtaz	13,25 – present
Nabeel's mother Mumtaz or Momo as her husband calls her, is a clueless old lady who often forgets names. She even forgets the names of her husband, son and daughter-in-law and always calls them by random names much to their annoyance in which they say "oof" and then always face palming themselves. She also forgets words and names of objects, and refers to the word with (that) and leaves everyone around her guessing what word she was looking for. She was first married to Nabeel's father, Rushu. Fifteen years after his death, she married Mehmood Sahab. She has two sons, Nabeel and Sona. Mehmood is her husband and Khoobsoorat is her daughter-in-law. Chaandi is her granddaughter. She is the most-loved character on the show and has slowly gained a cult following.
	Chaandi	121 – present
Nabeel and Khoobsoorat's daughter, Mehmood and Momo's granddaughter and Sona's niece. "Chaandi" means Silver in English. Whenever something is held wrong, she asks her mother "What happened mama?". She is the same age as her uncle Sonna.
	Sona	121 – present
Mehmood and Momo's son, Nabeel's brother, Khoobsoorat's brother-in-law and Chaandi's uncle (although he is the same age as Chaandi). His name, "Sona" means gold in English. He is very fond of Nabeel and wants to be like him in very manner, such as talking style, etc.

Recurring characters

Although there are a lot of minor and recurring characters, the most notable include:

• Tariq Butt as Butt Sahb, First seen in the first episode sharing a bench with Khubsoorat at the train station where he is reading an English newspaper, the narrator says that he enjoys reading English newspapers and comes to the station often to read the newspaper for free. The narrator then says he stares at every woman as if she were his wife, following this comments he starts staring at Khubsoorat and starts flirting with her, as a result, she gets up and walks out of the station. Later it turns out he is a police officer and occurs regularly in the series. He is a good friend of the family. He does not know how to do his duty, when he is called to help he usually does nothing useful and mostly ends up worsening the situation.
• Khawaja Akmal as Siddiqui, Nabeel's father in-law and Khubsoorat's father. He does not like Nabeel due to his incompetence and laziness and despises Nabeel for marrying his daughter. When Khubsoorat first meets her dad after running away from the marriage, she tells him she married Nabeel so that he does not take her back home with him. Later he finds out she is not married and says he is coming to take her back home, but unfortunately for Siddiqui, by the time he arrives, Khubsoorat is already married to Nabeel. When Nabeel's friend Ahmar finds tenants for his apartment, and the family has to evacuate the apartment, it is Siddiqui who arranges and pays for the new home for his daughter and as a result for the family to live in. He married another girl in episode 140.
• Binita David as Baytab, Siddiqui married her in episode 140. Although she is married to the much older Siddiqui, she often talks to her ex-boyfriend Omer on the phone. Siddiqui is, however, aware of this. It seems as if she has only married Siddiqui for money. She calls Siddiqui "Babloo".
• Nimra Shahid as Nirali, Siddiqui married her in episode 72 season 2. Before marriage, she was the kindest and the sweetest but before marrying Nirali, Sidique didn't know about Nirali's gangster life.
• Shahid Khawaja as Dr. Shahid 612, Bulbulay's family doctor. He was a mental patient before and after treatment, he became an animal doctor. He often mentions that he's still ill and his mental illness can't be cured and previously had many diseases like T.B., cancer, Hepatitis, etc.
• Ayaz Khan as Sher Khan

He is a friend of Mehmood Sahab. He is quite a hard, greedy, and normal-hearted person.

• Fazal Hussain as gullu son of fourth wife of Siddiqui.
• Faizan shahzad khan as Faizi sun played many random characters and many guest appearances.
• Shagufta ejaz as Joji who is their current landlord.
• 'Ashraf Khan as Mustaqeem the spouse of Joji,who is not only treated like a servant but is a poetry person.

Special appearances

• Reema Khan on eid special
• Aijaz Aslam as Nabeel's deceased father: Although he had died fifteen years ago, his ghost has appeared in three episodes of Bulbulay when he wanted to kill Mehmood Sahab because he is Momo's second husband. However, when Nabeel told him that he loves Mehmood Sahab more than him, his ghost left.
• Irfan Motiwala as a thief (chor) in Ramadan Episode 160 and another Episode they are kidnaper of Mehmood.
• Ashraf Khan as Father of Momo who came in many episodes of Bulbulay. He also came as a magician in an episode.
• Nayyar Ejaz as Nayyar Bhai the brother-in-law of Mehmood Aslam who has appeared twice.
• Zuhab Khan as Zeeshan a child who got lost in a market and Momo took him with her.
• Maqsood Hassan as ghost

See also

• Bulbulay
• List of Pakistani actresses
• List of Pakistani actors
• List of Pakistani television serials

Notes and References

1. News: All in a name: Nabeel. 28 December 2014. The Express Tribune. Saadia Qamar.
2. News: Style Icon: Ayesha Omar. 30 December 2014. The Express Tribune. Sidrah Moiz Khan.
3. News: Versatility, thy name is Hina Dilpazir. 28 December 2014. The Express Tribune. Saadia Qamar.