Bombay Tailors last episode 35: HUM TV drama ends after four months

Spoiler note: this story does not give away the ending.

Bombay Tailors came to an end on HUM TV on Monday, 9 November, with Episode 35, which the channel labelled the “Last Episode” on YouTube. The finale had about 887,000 views on HUM TV’s official channel within two days.

What Bombay Tailors was about

The drama is set in Karachi around Empress Market, in an old family tailoring shop whose signboard says it has been in business since 1942, Dawn’s ICON magazine reported when the show began in July. Its heart is a clash between generations:

• Saifi (Ali Ansari) wants to break away from a traditional family that expects him to join the tailoring business.
• Mahrukh (Anika Zulfikar) secretly runs a faceless, monetised YouTube channel, while her strict father believes social media is “the root of all evil”, as Dawn described him.

Sania Saeed, Tanveer Ahmed, Ali Tahir, Ali Safina and Dania Enwer made up the supporting cast. It was written by Amtul Shahida, directed by Mazhar Moin, and produced by Moomal Shunaid Productions and MD Productions.

What the team said at the start

Before it aired, Ali Ansari told Dawn the story was not “your typical romance”, and said he hoped it could change the game for its young cast. Producer Moomal Shunaid said the aim was to bring in “a fresh, young and talented cast.” Anika Zulfikar said the cast had “so much fun reading the script.”

Did it work?

On the numbers, Bombay Tailors was a modest performer in a crowded season. Its finale’s 887,000 views compare with about 7.3 million for HUM TV’s Hurmat Episode 11, which aired the same night. But it did something most prime-time dramas avoid: it treated a young woman’s online work as a real career rather than a scandal, and made a Karachi shop, not a mansion, the centre of the story. Sania Saeed, as always, gave its family scenes weight.

For viewers who want the ending, the full last episode is on HUM TV’s YouTube channel, embedded above.