First broadcast in Pakistan by ARY Digital, Thakan features Saba Qamar, Yumna Zaidi, Saba Hameed, Tauqeer Nasir, Saboor Ali, Bindiya, Farooq Zameer, Anusheh Asad, Farah Tufail and Jabran Shahid.

Sadaf (Saba Qamar) works extremely hard like a machine day and night to run her family, but no one except her grandfather feels sympathy or even cares about her.

Sadaf faces a lot of difficulties, harassment and criticism at work, due to which she has to change her jobs frequently.

And it happens one day that Sadaf visits her brother's college to pay the fees and learns that he had been suspended months back.

Similarly her brother-in-law, Khurshid informs her how her mother had refused the marriage proposals that had come for Sadaf in the past seven years to ensure that she remained in the house, worked and earned for the family.

[8] In an article by DAWN Images, the reviewer Sadaf Haider praised the nuanced portrayal of the working woman.