| Director: | Rashid Dar |
| Producer: | Pakistan Television Corporation |
| Starring: | Sheeba Hassan Hamid Rana Ghayyur Akhtar Tamanna Begum Tashqeen Munir Zareef Atiya Sharaf Yaqoob Atif Khursheed Shahid Neelofar Abbasi Yasmeen Tahir Farooq Zameer Tauqeer Nasir Arifa Siddiqui Jamil Fakhri Masood Akhtar Durdana Butt Shakila Qureshi Abid Kashmiri Samina Khalid Tani Begum Talat Siddiqui Najma Mehboob |
| Runtime: | 20-25 Min |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| Language: | Urdu |
| Num Episodes: | 48 |
Sona Chandi (Urdu: سونا چاندی) is a classic Pakistani comedy-drama television serial produced 48 episodes but released only 32 episodes by PTV . The story of the drama, written by Munnu Bhai, revolves around a couple who comes to a city in search of work so that they can pay off their debts. The role of Sona is played by TV actor Hamid Rana and Chandi (Sheeba Hassan). This simple, innocent couple while performing their domestic-help jobs in different homes, end up helping many people in solving their problems.[1]
The play was inspired by a real couple named Sona (male) and Chandi (female) from Kallurkot, a Tehsil city of Bhakkar District of Punjab, Pakistan. Munnu Bhai (the writer of the play) who was educated in Kallurkot during his father's posting there as the railways station master of North Western Railway (British India) in the city before 1947, has mentioned his inspiration of these roles in his numerous interviews. Sona is still alive and lives in Kallurkot. During one of his visits to Kallurkot a few years back, Munnu Bhai got to meet the real Sona which is portrayed in the 1983 film version of the same play 'Sona Chandi' (1983).[2]
The credit of its popularity goes to the whole team: Munnu Bhai's script, direction by Rashid Dar and the performances by the actors especially the leading characters of this PTV drama – Sona and Chandi.[3]