Geo Tv Meri Zaat Zara e Benishaan (Complete)

Written by:  Umera Ahmed

Directed by: Babar Javaid

Cast: Samiya Mumtaz, Sarwat Gilani, Mahreen Raheel, Samina Peerzada,Faisal Qureshi, Adnan Siddiqui, Imran Abbas, Humayun Saaed, Khayyam Sarhadi etc

A saga that spans over two generations and is about the clash between two opposite schools of thought, the progressive and the very conservative. The story revolves around three brothers who have very different outlooks on life and bring up their children according to their own life philosophies. The oldest doesn’t believe in educating his daughters although he sends his son abroad for higher education; while the youngest moves to Dubai, and makes sure his daughters get the best education possible.Destiny takes one of the youngest brother’s educated daughters back to her homeland and her family find it hard to accept an educated and bright ‘girl’ in their midst. Fate sees this young girl marrying one of her own cousins despite opposition from the whole family. In a desperate bid to get rid of her, the heroine is falsely accused of infidelity by her mother-in-law, who falsely swears on the Quran, forcing her son to divorce his new wife. This has long term consequences on the whole family, who later repent the lies they were all a part of and desperately try to make amends…although perhaps now it is too late. A moving and thought provoking family drama.

Story:

It is about a girl named Sara who is in search of a man, Arfeen, who her mother, Saba, used to talk about. Before she died, Saba told her daughter that she wanted her to go to Arfeen's house when she died. Sara obeyed her mother, curious herself to find out more about this man, who happened to be Saba's cousin. When, after her mother's death, Sara goes to her uncle's house, he is devastated that Saba has died. Arfeen has a son named Haider who is about the same age as Sara. Over time, Sara realizes how deep the relationship was between her mother and Arfeen. She also starts talking to Haider. The show goes into the past to show Saba's life when she was about as young as her daughter and going to college. Arfeen is her dad's older brother's son, and he goes abroad to study and work. When he comes to Pakistan for a visit, he meets Saba and they become friends quickly. Slowly, Arfeen realizes how much he likes Saba, which soon turns into love. He asks his parents permission to marry her, but they are don't want him to marry her. They think she is too educated and will mot be good for their only son. Arfeen has two sisters, one older and one younger, who both agree with their parents. But still, Arfeen convinces his parents and they decide to have Saba and Arfeen's nikkah first and Arfeen will go back to America and come back later for their rukhsati. Back in the present time, Sara finds letters from Saba and Arfeen to each other while Arfeen was in America. She saw how much love was in each letter, but wondered what had happened between them because she knew Arfeen wasn't her father. She started to think that her mother had left Arfeen to marry someone else and began to feel guilty and sorry for Arfeen. But, when she mentioned this to Arfeen, he said that Saba hadn't done anything wrong, but he didn't tell her why he thought that. Sara's aunt kept calling Arfeen to tell him she wanted to talk to Sara and bring her to her house where she lived, outside of Pakistan. Arfeen refused to let her talk to her niece, but we don't find out the reason to that until later on. When it has been quite a while since Sara has been living with Arfeen and Haider, Arfeen asks his son to ask Sara to marry him. He agrees and when he asks her, Sara says yes. Not able any further to not talk to her only niece, Saba's younger sister decides to come to Pakistan to meet Sara. She comes to find that her niece is engaged and insists to do her wedding the way she thought would be best for her niece. But, on the day of her wedding, Sara disappears from her house without telling anyone where she went. This is when the truth comes out about what happened between Arfeen and Saba. Saba and arfeen are first cousions than arfeen loved Saba with heart and soul but his mother envied Saba that Arfeen gives more attention to Saba than to her. She planned to destroy Saba and Arfeen Nikkah.