Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan (Urdu: ميرى ذات ذرۂ بے نشاں) is a Pakistani television drama series, directed by Babar Javed and produced by Abdullah Kadwani and Humayun Saeed, based on Umera Ahmad's novel of the same name.
[1] The series is about Saba, a woman torn between faith, fidelity and forgiveness and the story spans across two generations and then focuses on her daughter, Sara.
It has an ensemble cast consisting of Samiya Mumtaz, Samina Peerzada, Sarwat Gillani, Mehreen Raheel, Faisal Qureshi, Adnan Siddiqui, Imran Abbas, Ismat Zaidi, and Humayun Saeed.
Sara and Haider become friends, and she becomes accustomed to living in Arfeen's home, although she wonders what happened between him and her mother; when she visits her family, no one will tell her.
Saba finds Aadil, a cousin who was attracted to her and whom Arfeen's mother had asked to fix a curtain rod, in the bedroom.
Screenwriter Umera Ahmad noticed the theater actress Samiya Mumtaz as a host in a talk show and suggest her to co-producer Humayun Saeed as a lead in the television adaptation of her book Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishaan.
[4] The series' theme song, "Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan", was written by Sabir Zafar and sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
[5] According to producer Abdullah Kadwani, "The serial received a phenomenal 1,68,000 emails and 6.3 million hits on various websites."
A local salesman after one year of the serial, also reported that they sold an average of 100 DVDs of the series every month.
[5] A reviewer from Dawn praised the acting performances of Mumtaz and Gillani and the title song by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan but criticised it for the depiction of the time period.
[6] In March 2020, Sadaf Haider of DAWN Images listed it among the 10 iconic Pakistani TV dramas.