Khabardaar

Khabardar خبردار
Genre	Comedy Satire
Written by	Aftab Iqbal
Presented by	Aftab Iqbal
Starring	Aftab Iqbal Honey Albela Rubi Anam (Paa Sadiq) Naseer Bhai Agha Majid (Aroo Grenade) Nasir Chinyoti Rimsha Abdur Rehman Amjad Ayub Mirza
Country of origin	Pakistan
Original language(s)	Urdu Punjabi
Production
Executive producer(s)	Syed Mohsin Iqbal
Producer(s)	Asif Raza Bilal Javed
Location(s)	Pakistan
Editor(s)	Sajid Ansari
Camera setup	Multicamera
Running time	30-36 minutes
Release
Original network	Express News
Original release	10 September 2015[1]
Chronology
Related shows
External links
[ Website]

Khabardar (Urdu :خبردار) is an Urdu and Punjabi comedy television show that airs at 11:05pm on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on Express News.

Theme

The main theme of this program is that a person sitting in the show tells a strange or unusual news and the comedians of the show start joking about it by pointing another comedian of the show, or in any other way.

Segments

Every episode of the show consists of a combination of a subset of the following segments.

1. First and main segment is that in which the anchor person, Mr. Aftab Iqbal, presents a topic of discussion for the show. The actors/comedians either as present themselves as parody-guests or perform a short skit. Sometimes, the guests also include famous personalities, such as, politicians, players and actors.
2. Another segment is that in which an old song is re-performed by singers and musicians present in the show. Some of the singers that have performed on the show are:
   • Mughira Ahmad^[2]
   • Saira Tahir^[3]
   • Vicky
   • Zain
   • Joel Junaid^[4]
3. There is a segment in which the audience challenge a person named Naseer Bahi by singing a part of a famous song. Naseer Bhai has to tell the name of singer of that song, the movie from which it is picked and the name of the director and producer of that movie. If Naseer Bahi is not able to recognize the song correctly, then the challenger wins and is presented with a prize. The song can be challenged by both the audience that is present in the studio as well as through telephone. To win the challenge the following conditions must hold.
   1. The song should be from an indian or a pakistani movie released between 1950 and 1980.
   2. The song should be so well known that at least one person in the audience present in the studio, acknowledges to have heard it before.
4. Another segment is that some of the comedians of the show present a short skit. These skits often revolve around the common social evils prevalent in the society.
5. Another segment is named "Movies, Books and People". In this segment, they present information about some famous movies of the past, the books on the base of which those movies were made and the actors, directors, producers and writers of those movies.
6. Another segment is named "Frange-Asfia". In this segment the host, Aftab Iqbal, presents etymology of a couple of words of Urdu, that evolved radically either due to a mistake of an author or mistake of publisher or due to mishearing of listener.
7. Another segment is named "Ibn-e-Batuta". In this segment the host, Aftab Iqbal discuss famous places of world, that include famous cities, rivers, countries etc.

Throughout the show, the comedians keep interrupting with funny or satirical one-liners.

References

1. "Khabardar Express News – 10th September 2015". pakcraze.com.
2. Ahmad, Mughira. "Facebook Page". Retrieved 19 December 2015.
3. Tahir, Saira. "Facebook Page". Retrieved 19 December 2015.
4. Junaid, Joel. "Facebook Page". Retrieved 8 January 2016.

2. Khabardar Youtube Channel 3. Khabardar on Express News