Alif Noon

Alif Noon (Urdu: الف نون) is a 1965 comedy television series from Pakistan Television, written by Kamal Ahmed Rizvi. The cast consisted of Rafi Khawar, known as Nanha, and Kamal Ahmed Rizvi known as Allan.

Plot
Each episode follows 'Allan' as a clever business-minded person, coming up with some immoral tricks to earn fast money. He used to use 'Nanha' as his stooge. He himself was not inclined to work and would rather be the sleeping partner in every saga or tell the tricks to poor Nanha (his front man). The character of Nanha became an instant hit. He faced the new society and was therefore used by Allan as the 'front man' for his tricks. In the end, he would unintentionally toss out the whole plot of scheming Allan by speaking the truth to the public.

Cast
Main
 * Kamal Ahmed Rizvi as Allan
 * Rafi Khawar as Nanha

Special Appearances
 * Uzma Gillani as Patient
 * Qavi Khan as Journalist
 * Madeeha Gauhar as Police lady
 * Samina Ahmad as Andaleeb
 * Khalid Butt as Policeman
 * Nighat Butt as Zareena's mother
 * Sheeba Hassan as Sakina
 * Tamanna as Amma
 * Mehboob Alam as Customer
 * Jameel Fakhri as Chaudhary
 * Durdana Butt as Mai
 * Samina Khalid as Zareena
 * Atiya Sharaf as Fazila
 * Shamim Hilaly as College Student
 * Qavi Khan as Munnan
 * Tasneem Kausar as Poor lady

Pakistani society
Although a 1960s comedy drama, the show portrayed the dark side of Pakistani society, where scams, frauds, and such are widespread. The series contained a positive message in each episode, though.

List of episodes
Allan thinks of an idea. He makes Nanha beg on the streets for money. Allan starts working with a corrupt government servant who deliberately causes a shortage of basic supplies and later on sells those goods in 'black market' on high rates, after the demand had skyrocketed. Allan portrays himself as an (eye specialist), and Nanha as optician and they try to make big earnings before the actual and real doctor, who is also their employer, returns from lunch. While their employer is away for a meeting, Nanha pretends to be a psychiatrist while Allan pretends to be Nanha's assistant Allan and Nanha open up their dairy shop to sell unhygienic and water-blended milk. Allan opens up a Bakery to start a business selling unhygienic and stale products. Allan calls upon top-notch actors and writers for making a film which wouldn't cost them a penny, instead earn them millions. Allan and Nanha hang around at an expensive restaurant in search of a business deal, as top class businessmen dine in there, and make deals over lunch at that restaurant. Allan plans on faking Nanha's birthday in order to receive gifts, which they would later sell, to earn some cash. Allan and Nanha work at Pehalwan's Meat Shop where they make Bar-b-Que out of dead animals and feed them to the customers without them noticing Allan starts a bicycle repair-shop where Nanha steals bicycle parts while the bicycles are there to be fixed. Moreover, they rent out those bicycles to earn some cash. Allan gathers around a number of people who have lost faith, and gives them a new ray of hope by telling them that he and Nanha could send them abroad where they could easily work and earn handful of cash. Allan and Nanha startup their tailoring shop where a lot of mishaps take place. Allan and Nanha accept the offer of their employer's husband to shut that organization down as he is sick of their employer (who is his wife) not playing her part in the upbringing of their kids. Nannha is hired by undercover cops in bringing down a group of dangerous mobs. Allan and Nanha start selling stuff, claiming that they're "antique". Allan and Nanha pose as Estate agents and sell land at fairly reasonable prices, even though they do not own that land. Allan and Nanha sell homemade, useless medicines. Allan poses as a newspaper editor and a number of people meet him to bribe him so that he may publish his newspaper with their planted stories accordingly. Allan invites art lovers to his place where Nanha makes some 'dumb' painting in a unique way. The art lovers consider it as "Abstract Art", while in reality it is just paintings made by Nanha.
 * Alif Noon- Footpath par
 * Alif Noon- Zakheera Andozi main
 * Alif Noon- Eye Clinic main
 * Alif Noon- Nafsiyati Clinic main
 * Alif Noon- Dairy main
 * Alif Noon- Bakery main
 * Alif Noon- Film Industry main
 * Alif Noon- Business lunch main
 * Alif Noon- Saalgira main
 * Alif Noon- Chicken Shop main
 * Alif Noon- Cycle Shop main
 * Alif Noon- Human Smuggling main
 * Alif Noon- Tailor Shop main
 * Alif Noon- Shadi Daftar main
 * Alif Noon- Jasoosi main
 * Alif Noon- Pawn Shop main
 * Alif Noon- Township main
 * Alif Noon- Dawasazi main
 * Alif Noon- Sahafat main
 * Alif Noon- Art Gallery main
 * Alif Noon- Anjuman Qarazdaraan main
 * Alif Noon- Advertisement main
 * Alif Noon- Hair Salon Main
 * Alif Noon- Kindergarten Main
 * Alif Noon- Susral Main
 * Alif Noon- Cinema Main

Film industry
'In Film industry' episode, it is shown that inexperienced and materialistic type of people have come into the Pakistani film industry who just make 'dummy' films. This could be easily validated from the state of present film industry in Pakistan.

'In Zakhira Andozi' (hoarding) episode, it is portrayed that people may take away the basic necessities only to make double the money. The implementation could be easily seen in the actual 2008 Atta (wheat flour) crisis in Pakistan that happened in real life. There is an episode regarding the state of art and artist, which shows that the real artistic culture that has been the background of the subcontinent has gone down to its lowest level.