Ishq Zahe Naseeb

Gohar (Sonya Hussyn) is a poor but happy girl who is in love with a boy named Kashif (Sami Khan).

Consequently, she is forced to accept the proposal of a nasty cousin, Jehangir (Khalid Malik), because her father, Rasheed (Akbar Subhani) owes them money.

Gohar and Kashif, on her sister's advice, decide to elope, but on the day of the marriage, both of them return halfway due to familial obligations and avoid contact with each other completely.

Meanwhile, Sameer (Zahid Ahmed) is a wealthy, handsome, and young businessman whose mother abandoned him in his childhood and his father died soon after.

He had been engaged to a girl named Zoya (Azekah Daniel), whom he loved and hoped would help him get over his issues, but she died mysteriously right before their marriage.

Gohar doesn’t tell her family that she is working at Sameer’s house instead of his office and keeps it a secret as she doesn't want any obligations and to avoid problems.

His boss Donia (Zarnish Khan) is a woman who uses a wheelchair and is bitter in attitude because her fiance (Raeed Muhammad Alam) left her in the past.

Sabiha learns that Gohar is working at Sameer’s office and arrives to humiliate and demean her, hoping she’ll leave.

The reason Sameer showed was that his mother's quite class conscious, and he and Gohar have a huge difference in status, so he didn't want to have problems regarding.Saleem agrees reluctantly.

At a hospital, she also discovers Sameer’s real mother, Suraiya, now in a vegetative state, who was presumed dead by Sabiha.

A series of flashbacks show the story of a woman named Shakra (Yumna Zaidi), who was a maid at Sameer's house.

A few years later, Ehsaan threw his wife, Suraiya, out of the house, accusing her of cheating on him, and married Sabiha, who worked as a secretary in his office.

Shakra returns from the mental asylum where she may have been sexually abused and poisons Ehsaan as a revenge for killing her child and raping her.

Shakra starts to obsess over Sameer and begins to dress him up as a girl, calling him Sameera, developing his disorder of split personality.

That night, in his disturbed state of mind and under the influence of his other personality, he points a gun at Gohar and then at himself, in an attempt to get revenge from his alter (Sameera) .

She meets with Zoya’s cousin Saima, who, although she doesn’t forgive Sameer for her death, she understands that he didn’t mean for it to happen.

The official soundtrack of the serial has been composed and performed by Naveed Nashad while the lyrics were written by Hashim Nadeem.

[10] The series received critical acclaim due to its storyline and performances of the lead cast, especially Zahid Ahmed and Yumna Zaidi.

[16][17][18] Express Tribune listed it among the dramas that broke the stereotypes due to the portrayal of taboo topics such as Acid attacks, split personality disorder, sexual abuse, and other mental issues.