Rehaai

The series stars Noman Ijaz, Samina Peerzada, Maria Wasti, Adnan Jilani, Rashid Farooqui, Yashal Nadeem, Nausheen Shah, and Danish Taimoor. The series was produced by Kashf Foundation in collaboration with Momina Duraid. It highlights real-life stories of clients of Kashf, a microfinance NGO, focusing on the challenges they face and how they overcome them with the help of small loans. The drama focuses on child marriage, an endemic issue affecting low-income families in many parts of Pakistan. Its airing sparked widespread debate on child marriage and the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2013. Inspite of being an off-beat subject drama, it did really well in TRP ratings and was among top 10 most watched weekly drama, peaking at 6.7 TRP. In India, it was aired on Zee Zindagi and was an instance hit. Rehaai tells the story of Shamim, a woman married off as a child.