Lafafi
Lafafi is the title of a Punjabi serial telecast by Jalandhar Doordarshan in 1993-94. The first episode was telecast on 16 December 1993. The serial depicts the struggle of an ordinary girl from a low class family to find a respectable place in society and in the heart and life of the person who deserts her after having seduced her.
Credits
The 6 episode serial was produced and directed by Ravi Deep who also wrote the screenplay. Story and dialogs were written by Satish Sharma and Raj Kumar.
Cast
Neena Cheema performed the lead role. The other artists included Rajinder Kashyap, Amarjeet Grover, Pramod Kalia, Master Saurabh Shaili, Daljit Kaur and Sudeshna Bakshi.
Neena Cheema as Lafafi
Rajinder Kashyap as Chaman (CL)
Pramod Kalia as Gora
Amarjeet Grover as Lafafi's father
Daljit Kaur as Lafafi's mother
Saurabh Shaili as Lafafi's brother
Sudeshna Bakshi as C.L.'s employee
Plot summary
Lafafi (Neena Cheema), along with her family comprising a drunkard father (Amarjit Grover), a sick mother (Daljit Kaur) and a disabled younger brother (Saurabh Shaili), makes her living by making and selling paper bags in the local market of a small sleepy town. With less than ordinary looks, she is a not only laughing stock for the shopkeepers with whom she has to deal but also is an easy target of their vulgar remarks and advances.
Chaman (Rajinder Kashyap), owner of a grocery shop, being a person with large heart by nature, helps Lafafi financially whenever she faces a crisis. This does not mean that he has a special consideration or soft corner for her. When Lafafi's drunk father is arrested, Lafafi seeks Chaman's help in getting him released from police custody. In some moments of weakness Chaman and Lafafi become physically involved.
The local doctor (Prem Kakaria) targets Chaman when he refuses to give him bribe. To avoid being arrested for malpractice, Chaman flees from the town and joins his friend Gora (Pramod Kalia), a small-time travel agent in a metropolitan city. Chaman joins Gora's profession and due to his daring nature and enterprise prospers fast as a travel agent, now known and called by all as C.L.
When Lafafi's parents come to know that she is pregnant, they try to get rid of her by marrying her to a retarded person. Lafafi also leaves the town and somehow reaches Chaman who blatantly refuses to accept her and her child. But Lafafi does not give in and continues to fight in her own way for her rightful place in Chaman' life and the society that had never been kind to her.