Yaqeen Ka Safar
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| Yaqeen Ka Safar | |
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| Urdu | یقین کا سفر |
| Genre | |
| Created by | Momina Duraid |
| Based on | Woh Yaqeen Ka Naya Safar by Farhat Ishtiaq |
| Written by | Farhat Ishtiaq |
| Directed by | Shahzad Kashmiri |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Waqar Ali Syed Sohail Haider |
| Opening theme | "Yaqeen Ka Safar" by Hadiqa Kiani |
| Country of origin | Pakistan |
| Original language | Urdu |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 29 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Momina Duraid |
| Producer | Momina Duraid |
| Production locations | Neelum Valley and Karachi |
| Running time | 39–40 minutes |
| Production company | MD Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Hum TV |
| Release | April 19 – November 1, 2017 |
Yakeen Ka Safar (Template:Lang-ur) is a 2017 Pakistani television drama series created by Momina Duraid under her company MD Productions for her channel Hum TV. It aired from April 19, 2017, to November 1, 2017, with a total of 29 episodes.[1] It is written by Farhat Ishtiaq, based on her novel Woh Yakeen Ka Naya Safar and directed by Shahzad Kashmiri. Yakeen Ka Safar revolves around the journey of two individuals, Asfand and Zubiya, who changed internally after facing hardships and struggle. It is written and produced by the makers of Humsafar, Dil e Muztar, Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu, Alvida, Diyar-e-Dil, Udaari and Bin Roye.[2] Its ensemble cast consists of Ahad Raza Mir as Dr. Asfandyar, Sajjal Ali as Dr. Zubia, Shaz Khan as Daniyal and Hira Salman as Gaiti in leading roles. It premiered in Pakistan, the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and UAE with same premiere date and timings.
Yakeen Ka Safar was one of the highest rated programs in Pakistan in 2017. It has received critical acclaim and won in multiple categories at the Hum Awards, including Best Drama Serial - Jury and Best Drama Serial - Popular. At the 15th Lux Style Awards, it won two awards and received four nominations.
Plot
The story starts with Zubia Khalil, a young girl mourning her mother's sudden death as a result of her father's physical violence. Her father, Khalil, has threatened Zubia's whole family in an attempt to keep their mouths shut about the cause of their mother's death. Khalil is a fiery and conservative man who accidentally killed his wife by slapping her because she disobeyed him. Zubia needed to visit her friend's house to borrow important lecture notes and insisted her mother accompany her. Her mother had been forbidden by her father to leave the house with their driver. When Khalil discovered the incident, he slapped her so hard she fell and ended up hitting the corner of her bed, killing her instantly. Zubia's aunt Mahjabin arrives and consoles the deeply devastated Zubia.
The second storyline involves a family in Islamabad celebrating their son Daniyal's wedding with his cousin Gaeti. Daniyal is a young lawyer who has recently graduated from London and is an extremely fearless and honest person. Asfandyar is Daniyal's younger brother who will soon leave for Karachi to complete his medical studies after his brother's wedding. He is a lively person and quite ambitious as well. The family maintains a significant reputation in the community as Usman, Daniyal and Asfandyar's father, is a successful lawyer, too. Asfandyar is engaged to his other cousin Faryal, the only daughter of Usman's brother, Rizvan.
The third storyline involves Noori, a naive girl living in a rural village of Sindh. Tragically, Noori is kidnapped by a minister's son Jehangir Shah, who gang rapes her along with two of his friends. She is rescued the next day by a man who brings her to a hospital where the doctor calls her family and informs them of the incident. Eventually, the family decides to remain silent because their poverty means they are unable to afford legal action against a powerful minister. While Noori's father does go to the police station to report Jehangir Shah for raping Noori, he is threatened by the police. After the incident, Noori's family is insulted in the village, so Noori decides to take revenge on Jehangir and his friends. She runs away from her house and is found by and taken to Karachi by Rumana, an NGO lady in Karachi. Rumana informs Daniyal about the Noori gang-rape incident.
Daniyal travels to Karachi, meets Noori, and decides to file a case against Jehangir Shah and his friends. Daniyal starts receiving threats and is even thrown into prison based on the false accusations that he raped his secretary, Urooj Nisaar, who was working for Jhanghir Shah. He is bailed the next day and his family forces him to close the case but he doesn't. After some days when Daniyal is in his office, he is shot by Jehangir Shah's people, who had also killed one of Daniyal's loyal friends who had helped him throughout beforehand. Those people also destroyed all the proof that Daniyal had collected to present in the court. They typed a note which stated that Daniyal was too scared to deal with this case anymore and that he is leaving everyone forever. This leaves people thinking that he gave up and committed suicide. Everyone receives this news the next morning and the family is left in extreme pain. Noori's state of agony intensifies and she secretly takes a gun from the security guard. She then attends Jehangir Shah's Conference and kills everyone.
Meanwhile, Asfandyar and Faryal's engagement ends as Faryal and her parents refuse to believe that Daniyal was innocent and did not commit suicide. After all of this, Asfandyar decides to leave for America to complete his education, Faryal gets married to someone else and settles abroad. Gaeti gives birth to her and Daniyal's son, Saim. This event finally brings some smiles to the family members faces and they slowly start healing from the past. On the other hand, because of the bad behaviour of her father, Zubia rebels and starts dating her stalker named Ramiz.
Zubia's sister in law Sheema overhears Zubia talking to Ramiz and starts plotting against her so that she can take her revenge from her father in law, Khalil, as he insulted her parents who agreed to get Sheema's brother married according to his liking. Zubia and Ramiz choose to secretly marry so that their family is left with no choice but to accept them and their love. But when Zubia goes to his house, Ramiz reveals his true intentions as he puts a drug in Zubia's juice so that he can easily abuse her. Zubia senses that something is wrong and as soon as the abuse begins, she instantly runs out from his flat and is saved by Asfandyar. Her family gets worried as they are waiting for her to come back. As Sheema knows about their plans, she shows Rehan and Khalil Zubia's conversation with Ramiz. Thus, succeeding in destroying the reputation of Khalil in society. From here Zubia was greatly abused by her family, her friends broke all ties with her. Here Khalil realises that because of his sins, Allah is punishing his daughter and how will he be forgiven? How will Zubia get her respect back?
Despite Rehan and Sheena's arguments, Khalil gets her admitted to a medical college as it was her mother's wish that she becomes a doctor. As soon as she was about to complete her MBBS and her marriage was fixed, Khalil dies. After a few months, Sheena's relative from abroad came to visit her and takes interest in Zubia. In the middle of the night, he, without Zubia's consent, enters her room and walks closer to her. Zubia yells and after Rehan and Sheema find them in the room together, the guy falsely accuses Zubia of calling him to repair her laptop and asking him for sexual favours. Zubia stands up for herself and tells her brother that when it was my fault, I didn't argue one bit, but now, I will not bear these lies and unjust treatment I am given. Her brother refuses to believe her and she was thrown out of the house. She went to her aunt Mahjabin's home in Peshawar who believes her. She lives there for a few weeks but because she thought Aunt's son and daughter in law's lives are being disturbed, she leaves and joins a hostel. She gives a job interview with Asfand's newly established hospital. Where she instantly feels as if she has already seen him somewhere.
From day one, she is scolded a lot by Dr. Asfandyar and that's why she also calls him Hitler. Asfandyar is now very intelligent but very arrogant. His brother's death resulted in him becoming a bitter person. Zubia and Gaeti (wife of Daniyal) become very good friends after meeting in a nearby sitting area. Zubia didn't know that she was the sister in law of Asfandyar. When Zubia learns that he is also the brother in law of Gaeti she became angry and didn't talk to Gaeti as she blames her for not telling her this and believes that now Asfandyar will think as if Dr. Zubia is trying to impress his family to gain benefits and profit in her job. After a few days, they make up with each other. Zubia searched and found that he was the person who saved her from Ramiz. Gaeti also tells her all about her family, Asfi and Daniyal. After some time Zubia realizes that Gaeti and Dr. Haroon (Zubia's colleague) can get married as Dr. Haroon also lost his dearest wife in an accident just like Gaeti lost Daniyal. On the other hand, Asfandyar's family wants him to get married to Zubia. As because of her positive nature, Gaeti left behind her trauma of Daniyal's death and started to socialize.
Here as slowly Zubia is improving her performance as a doctor, she and Asfandyar establish good terms with one another and soon fall in love. In the meantime, Faryal came back and she wishes to marry Asfi because her husband divorced her and that she regrets her ill-treatment with Asfi during that difficult phase. But Asfi did not agree to marry her and she went back to her home. Here, Urooj Nisar who was Daniyal ex-secretary and accused him of raping her, comes to the hospital with her injured son who met a car accident as he was drunk. Asfi identifies who she is right in the first sight, so does she. He locks himself in his office and cries remembering his brother. He performs surgery on Urooj's son without taking a single penny from her. In extreme guilt, Urooj calls upon a press conference and confesses all her crimes and ask for forgiveness. Everyone from Zubia, to Faryal and her parents, everyone saw it on the media and Daniyal's family finally feels proud that their son lost his life in trying to protect humanity. Asfandyar and his father travel and visit Daniyal's grave and attend a seminar which is held to honour Daniyal. After he returned, he proposes Zubia but she rejects the proposal saying that temporary infatuation doesn't mean you can get married. She does this because she has lied a lot about her past to everyone and believers that when Asfi will end up remembering the Ramiz incident, he will leave Zubia to think that she is a characterless woman. Both are heartbroken. Rehan, on the other hand, wakes up in the middle of the night and wishes to ask forgiveness from Zubia. So he comes to the hospital to meet her. Zubia notices him and gets very tensed and thought that now everyone will find out that I lied about not having a brother, etc. She becomes hopeless and flees from the hospital. Asfi locates her and finds her standing high up on the roof, below which is a lake. Asfandyar is shocked and runs to save her but she had jumped into the lake, and thus committing suicide. On the very second, Asfandyar takes help from local people and rescue her before she would sink completely. Asfandyar brought her to the hospital while she remained unconscious. Here finds about her brother, her past and also remembers the Ramiz incident. After Zubia gains consciousness Asfandyar tells her that he doesn't care about anything but only her. They tearfully hug. Rehan is also forgiven by Zubia. Dr. Haroon and Gaeti are married too. In a voiceover by Zubia, she mentions that it has been a year since she and Asfandyar have been happily married. And that all the hardships and challenges Allah had in store for you, he also rewards you with blessings in return. In the end, everything was worth it and happened for a reason.
Cast
- Ahad Raza Mir as Dr. Asfandyar Ali Khan
- Sajal Ali as Dr. Zubia Khalil/Dr.Zubia Asfandyar Ali Khan
- Hira Mani as Gaeti Daniyal Ali Khan
- Shaz Khan as Barrister Daniyal Ali Khan
- Farhan Ali Agha as Barrister Usman Ali Khan
- Mohammed Ehteshamuddin as Khalil
- Beenish Raja as Sheema Rehan
- Afraz Rasool as Rehan Khalil
- Sabeena Syed as Faryaal
- Aisha Khan Jr. as Urooj Nisar
- Shamyl Khan as Dr. Shahroze
- Shamayel Tareen as Dr. Asifa Shahroze
- Salman Saqib Sheikh as Dr. Haroon
- Nasreen Naz as Noori's mother
- Ismail Chandio as Noori's father
- Ali Gul Malah as Rab Nawaz's assistant
- Suhaee Abro as Noori
- Sabiha Sumar as Lubna
- Huma Nawab as Mahjabeen, Zubia's aunt
- Ainy Zaidi as Gaeti's mother
- Munazzah Arif as Faryaal's mother
- Nabeel Zuberi as Ramiz, Zubia's boyfriend
- Agha Talal as Mohsin, Mahjabeen's son
- Zia Gurchani as Gaeti's father
- Jahanzeb Gurchani
- Javed Iqbal as Faryaal's father
- Akbar Islam as SSP Shehzad Ahmed
- Naima Khan as Jehangir's mother
- Fazila Qazi as Maah-e-Talat, Zubia's mother
- Zainab Qayyum as Rumana, Women activist
- Qazi Wajid as Rab Nawaz
- Mariyam Nafees as Khajista
- Hassan Noman as Bahadur, Khajista's husband
- Ismat Zaidi as Zubia's grandmother
- Ibrahim Salman as Saim, Daniyal and Gaeti's son
Production
Development
Yakeen Ka Safar was developed by Hum TV's senior producer Momina Duraid of MD Productions, the channel hired the director Shahzad Kashmiri who previously directed Bin Roye for the same channel. Along with Kashmiri, Mirza Zeeshan Baig was finalised as the art director, it was Baig's return to Hum Television after he directed Diyar-e-Dil, Mann Mayal, Sanam, Dil Banjaara and Alif Allah Aur Insaan for the same channel. Tameen Nazami and Safdar Hussain Rind were the cinematographers. The story of the serial is based on award-winning writer Farhat Ishtiaq's novel Woh Yakeen Ka Naya Safar.[3][4] The screenplay was also written by Ishtiaq while script composing was done by Muhammad Wasi-ul-Din who has previously worked with her with the channel's series Diyar-e-Dil and Bin Roye. Farhat has previously worked in Momina, where she wrote mega-hit drama serials in Pakistan television history Humsafar,[5] Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu,[6] Diyar-e-Dil,.[7][8][9] Bin Roye[10][11][12] and Udaari.[13] Song composition is done by Waqar Ali and Suhail Haider while the background score is given by MAD Music, Hadiqa Kiani and Richa Sharma finalised to perform the OST. The show approximately airs weekly episode for 35–40 minutes (minus commercials) every Wednesday.
There were several discussions laid on its time slot, previously it was announced that the show will premier on April 12, 2017, airing an episode on Friday's replacing Dil Banjaara. However, since Dil-e-Janam bought lower ratings to channel's Wednesday slot, Yakeen Ka Safar was shifted to Wednesdays and was delayed till April 15, 2017, due to promotional reasons.
Casting
Sajal Ali, Ahad Raza Mir, Shaaz Khan and Hira Salman were selected to portray the leading roles of Zubiya, Asfandyar, Daniyal and Geeti. Sajal Ali made her television comeback two years after her 2015 Hum TV series Gul-e-Rana. After completing her Bollywood debut MOM, the actress returned to portray the role of Dr. Zubiya and also signed O Rangreza for the same channel. Ahad Raza Mir who made his television debut in Sammi was finalised after his success as portraying the role of Salar in Sammi. The actor received critical acclaim and appraisal for his role as Dr. Asfandyar. Film actor Shaz Khan was finalised to portray the role of Daniyal in his filming session in channels upcoming film Parwaaz Hay Junoon. Hira Salman returned to Hum TV after her 2015 TV serial Preet Na Kariyo Koi for portraying the role of Geeti, Salman joined filming after completing her ARY project Sun Yaara, alongside Salman her husband Salman Saqib was also cast where he portrayed the role of Dr. Haroon. Production house also chose actors Farhan Ali Agha, Mohammed Ehtishauddin and Maryam Nafees for portraying the roles of Usman, Noori, Khalil and Khajista.
Release
Broadcast
Yakeen Ka Safar was premiered on 19 April 2017,[14] It aired a weekly episode every Wednesdays at 8:00pm.[15] It was aired on Hum Europe in the UK,[16] on Hum TV USA in USA[16] and Hum TV Mena in UAE,[16] with same timings and premiered date. All International broadcasting aired the series in accordance with their standard times. It was broadcast by Hum Network's new channel Hum World HD for US and Canada. In 2019, It was rebroadcast in Pakistan on national channel PTV Home.
Home media and digital release
Yakeen Ka Safar was released on Hum TV's YouTube channel alongside its airing but later the channel deleted all its episodes. It was also released on the iflix app as a part of channel's contract with the app but later on, on terminating the contract in 2019, all the episodes were pulled off and thus had no digital availability to stream. Moreover, it was also released on the MX Player app. In July 2019, the channel reuploaded all the episodes on YouTube with all the music removed. A few episodes of the show are also available on Prime video.
Music
| Yakeen Ka Safar OST | |
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| Soundtrack album by Hadiqa Kiani & Richa Sharma | |
| Released | 19 April 2017 |
| Recorded | 2017 |
| Genre | Television soundtrack |
| Length | 04 Minutes 20 Seconds (3:12) |
| Language | Urdu |
| Label | M.D Productions |
| Producer | Momina Duraid |
The title song of Yakeen Ka Safar was composed by Waqar Ali, while Naseer Tarbani penned the series. The background score for the series is done by Mad Music.[17][18] The OST was performed by Hadiqa Kiani.[19] It marks the return of the singer to Hum TV since performed the channels hit drama series Udaari's OST in 2016. The OST Mitti kay Parindey was comped by Syed Suhail Haider while its lyrics were given by Kashif Anwar. The OST was performed by Richa Sharma
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Naseer Tarbani & Richa Sharma; all music is composed by Waqar Ali & Mad Music
| No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Yakeen Ka Safar" | Hadiqa Kiani | 3:12 |
| 2. | "Mitti Kay Parindey" | Richa Sharma | 2:55 |
| Total length: | 6:07 | ||
Awards and nominations
| Year | Date | Award | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Drama Serial - Popular | Momina Duraid | Won | |||
| Best Drama Serial - Jury | Nominated | ||||
| Best Director Drama Serial | Shehzad Kashmiri | Nominated | |||
| Best Writer Drama Serial | Farhat Ishtiaq | Nominated | |||
| Best Actor - Popular | Ahad Raza Mir | Won | |||
| Best Actor - Jury | Nominated | ||||
| Best Actress - Popular | Sajal Aly | Won | |||
| Best Actress - Jury | Nominated | ||||
| Best Sensation Male | Ahad Raza Mir | Won | |||
| Best Supporting Actor - Male | Ehteshamuddin | Nominated | |||
| Best Supporting Actor - Female | Hira Mani | Nominated | |||
| Most Impactful Character | Shaz Khan | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Soundtrack | "Gumaan Ke Paar" by Hadiqa Kiani | Nominated | |||
| Best Onscreen Couple - Jury | Sajal Aly and Ahad Raza Mir | Nominated | |||
| Best Onscreen Couple - Popular | Won | ||||
| Best TV Actor | Ahad Raza Mir | Won | |||
| Best TV Actress | Sajal Aly | Nominated | |||
| Best TV Play (Viewer's Choice) | Momina Duraid | Won | |||
| Best TV Director (Viewer's Choice) | Shahzad Kashmiri | Nominated | |||
| Best TV Actor (Viewer's Choice) | Ahad Raza Mir | Nominated | |||
| Best Actress TV (Viewer's Choice) | Sajal Aly | Won | |||
| Best Actress TV (Jury's Choice) | Won | ||||
| Best Supporting Actor | Ehteshamuddin | Nominated | |||
| Best New Emerging Talent | Ahad Raza Mir | Won |
See also
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