S01E01 Episode 1
The story revolves around six Pakistanis living in Jackson Heights a suburb in Queens, New York.
Jackson Heights
S01E07: Episode 7
Salma meets Bhatti once when she rides his cab and is really annoyed with his over friendly and talkative behaviour. He later helps her when a bunch of goons are chasing and even teasing her while she is returning from work. They become good friends after this incident. Aalia also likes Bhatti very much because of his good nature. Bhatti shares stories of his personal life with Salma here and there but she never shares anything with him only until one day he spots her walking down the street with Emaan. One late night, Bhatti gets mugged by Sikander and his cousin Kash but Bhatti registers Sikander's face oblivious to the fact that he is Salma's husband. He later recognizes him when he visit's Salma's house to return her wallet that she had left in his cab.
Overview
3 stories of Pakistani's family living in New York.
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
Salma (Aamina Sheikh) works very hard at Haseena Beauty Salon. The owner of the salon Aalia (Meher Jaffri) is a good friend of Salma. Salma stays with her mother-in-law and step daughter Iman and is...
S01E03 Episode 3
Later in the series is it revealed that Salma's husband Sikandar (Ali Kazmi) is a convict doing his time in prison and has been released early due to good behaviour. Sikandar is abusive towards Salma...
S01E04 Episode 4
Imran Bhatti (Noman Ejaz) is a cab driver with a heart of gold. All the other cabbies of the neighbourhood admire and respect Bhatti very much. Bhatti came to New York fifteen years back on...
S01E05 Episode 5
Bhatti has told everyone in his family that he owns a cab company in the US. His ailing mother lives in Pakistan with his older brother and sister-in-law who treat her badly.
S01E06 Episode 6
Bhatti is married to an American woman Kathy as part of a citizenship deal. Kathy is mean and rude towards Bhatti. Kathy's daughter Isabella (Alma Moos Nunez) shares this attitude with her mother. Her son...
S01E07 Episode 7
Salma meets Bhatti once when she rides his cab and is really annoyed with his over friendly and talkative behaviour. He later helps her when a bunch of goons are chasing and even teasing her...
S01E08 Episode 8
Also staying with Bhatti's mother is Jamshed (Adeel Hussain), the son of Bhatti's only dead sister who has completed his graduation. Jamshed has a girlfriend Asma who is his next door neighbour. Asma wants Jamshed...
S01E09 Episode 9
Michelle (Marina Khan) is a Pakistani Christian who runs a restaurant in Jackson Heights. She has an icy cold attitude towards all Desis. The cabbies of the neighbourhood visit her diner everyday and are all...
S01E10 Episode 10
Michelle's only surviving family is her sister Maria who stays in London. Michelle's close friend and confidant is Rizwan (Adnan Jaffar), a banker from India. Rizwan is in love with Michelle but has never explicitly...
S01E11 Episode 11
Jamshed travels to New york only to realize how tough it is to survive there. He finds out that Bhatti is only a cab driver and does not own a cab company. Due to his...
S01E12 Episode 12
Slowly Michelle starts liking Jamshed and hires him as a waiter at the restaurant. Jamshed shows promise at work and gets into Michelle's good books much to the dismay of her other staff. He starts...
S01E13 Episode 13
Sikandar with his cousin Kash gambles at a local casino and loses and ows a sum of $25000 to the owner who are part of money laundering Mafia. Salma loves and cares about Iman dearly...
S01E14 Episode 14
Cathy spots Bhatti with Salma a few times and suspects they are having an affair. Kash also catches them walking in the park and tells Sikandar and his mom that Salma is cheating on Sikandar...
S01E15 Episode 15
Salma takes him to the hospital and takes care of him and to pay off the hospital bills she is forced to sell her jewellery. She also informs Bhatti about the $25000 debt Sikander is...
S01E16 Episode 16
While Salma tells Sikandar that she plans to divorce him and marry Bhatti once he recovers from his injury, she also tells him how Bhatti has settled dues with the casino Mafia. Sikandar feels bad...
S01E17 Episode 17
Jamshed later proposes to Michelle and she accepts. Bhatti is very unhappy with this development but Jamshed insults him and sends him away.
S01E18 Episode 18
Jamshed starts pushing Michelle for getting married, not even allowing her to inform Maria. Michelle when tells Rizwan about this, he is heartbroken and starts suspecting that Jamshed is only doing this for nationality.
S01E19 Episode 19
He tries to warn Michelle but she does not believe him. Jamshed also makes her think that Rizwan is doing this because he is jealous of him since he is still in love with Michelle....
S01E20 Episode 20
Jamshed then starts to fake a friendship with Rizwan. Rizwan starts following Jamshed and learns that he is regularly visiting a lawyer. He understands that Jamshed is marrying Michelle only for citizenship and he does...
S01E21 Episode 21
He tells Maria about the upcoming wedding and Michelle requests Jamshed to postpone it so that her sister can be a part of it. Jamshed gets agitated by this and thinks Rizwan has provoked her...
S01E22 Episode 22
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, Bhatti's mother becomes more and more sick and his brother does not get her treated. She starts crying and asking Bhatti to come back to Pakistan.
S01E23 Episode 23
Bhatti reaches Pakistan but his mom is still comatose. He sees that his brother and his wife only care about the house and money and do not care about their mother. Bhatti's mother eventually passes...
S01E24 Episode 24
He informs Jamshed but he refuses to go to Pakistan saying he is getting married in three weeks so he cannot fly. Bhatti heartbroken flies to Pakistan but Salma does not join him. She stays...
S01E25 Episode 25
Bhatti who has already divorced Kathy and decided to marry Salma tells his mom that he will come and bring her daughter-in-law with him. Salma tells him about how Emaan has asked her to not...
S01E26 Episode 26
On the day of Jamshed and Michelle's wedding, Jamshed's lawyer calls him and threatens him asking for more money. When he goes to meet him he tells him that Rizwan has paid him double the...
S01E27 Episode 27
Salma goes to meet Bhatti at his office and he gets really happy to see her. Michelle asks Jamshed to come and see her. She informs him that she is moving to London and hands...
Cast
Noman Ijaz
Imran Bhatti
Aamina Sheikh
Salma
Marina Khan
Michelle
Adeel Husain
Jamshed
Adnan Jaffar
Rizwan
Ali Kazmi
Sikandar
Almaas Hussain
Emaan
Mehar Jaffri
Aliya
Naghma Begum
Nani/Bhatti's mother
Neelofar Abbasi
Sikandar’s mother
Monsoon Bissell
Kathy
Ahmad Razvi
Javed
