Mera Naam Yousuf Hai

The story is about a love story between Yousuf and Zulaikha. In a train to karachi, Yousuf saw zulekha and gets attracted towards her but not for her beauty but because of her name. Yousuf is a musician who sings and plays music. While on the other hand, Zulaikha is the daughter of a Maulana (Religious Scholar) and has a little sister and a big brother. At the station, Yousuf asks her about her name but she denies that she is zulaikha, as yousuf is a stranger. Later on, Yousuf has a friend named Daaji with whom he makes music and Daaji has a sister named Madiha, who is in love with yousuf but does not express her feelings. Somehow yousuf knows that madiha is attracted to him but does not want that relation as she is his best friend's sister.

Later, Yousuf tells daaji about the girl he saw on the train and the incident. Then one day, when yousuf was dropping her sister at her school he saw a man in a van and thinks that he has saw this man before he waits and then follows the van which leads to a house. It is revealed that Van was Zulaikha's big brother. Yousif follows him and reaches the house. There he lies that he is a postman and a letter is there with him in the for Zulaikha. Zulaikha came downstairs and first does not recognize him, he asks, "Are you zulaikha?" she answers yes and then he says that his name is yousuf and leaves.

So he came to her house just to tell his name, when daaji asks him that he is in love he says that no he is not in love, He just felt that it was important to tell her his name and he still knows why.

Sometime later his friend daaji asks him to take him to zulaikhas house just to see, there they meet an old friend who suprisingly is their neighbor. Yousuf makes a plan that he will go to her terrace by his friends connecting terrace. There he reaches, zulaikha saw him and is shocked and irritated as she does not like him. He says that he is in love with her, she tells him that she is about to get married to her cousin Imran Mughiz. Yousuf says that her Nikkah (Marriage) will not happen if his love for her is true. He gives her his number and says that if her nikkah not happens she should call him and when he was about to leave Zulaikhas father sees him but not his face and runs after him but yousuf escapes.

Zulaikha goes to meet imran mughiz who she does not want to marry as she wants to study further. After leaving the cafe with her sister, she again encounters yousuf who by this time was not following her and it was a coincidence. Zulaikha starts saying things to him as she is thinking that he is following her and she leaves. There Imran Mughiz saw the whole situaiton and went straight to yousuf and starts misbehaving with him daaji comes in between and punches the guy and runs with yousuf. Imran mughiz complains to Zulaikhas father about this. And then they file a complain and find daaji and arrest him and after knowing that daaji has been arrested by Madiha. Yousuf goes to the police and says that he is the main culprit and let his friend go. There Zulaikhas father see him and remembers him to be the train guy and now yousuf is slapped multiple times.

In the police station yousuf is beaten mercilessly. On the other hand, Zulaikhas younger sister informs her that yousuf has been arrested and they are beating him, zulaikha hearing this is happy and says that she warned him to not follow her but he didn't now he is facing the consequences. Her sister warns her that her big brother has gone to the police station to make his video and confession and when she sees the video she should make sure that the smile she has on her face should be still there and leaves. Suddenly zulaikhas smiles fades.

Back to the police station, after beating yousuf, zulaikhas father asks yousuf about what is between him and zulaikha and yousuf answers that he saw her on the train and there is not fault of Zulaikha in this in fact she dislikes him a lot. Her father asks that then why he follows her, he answers that he has fallen in love with her and receives another slap, further on zulaikha gets the video of Yousuf and starts to cry.

Mera Naam Yousaf Hai (initially titled as Zulekha Bina Yousuf) was developed by producer Sadia Jabbar of Sadia Jabbar Productions, she hired successful director Mehreen Jabbar to direct the series. The Show is written by famous writer Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar,[4] and is loosely based on the story of Yusuf and Zulaikha by Jami in his book Haft Awrang with some edits, the screenplay is also written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar while Script composing is done by Naman Ali. Approximately with twenty-one episodes, Zulaikha Bina Yousuf was completed in February 2015 and was all set to premier on 12 March 2015 with a prime slot of Thursday 8:00pm.[8] However, in mid-March 2015 production house changed the name of the series to Mera Naam Yousuf Hai and changed its premier to 6 March 2015. Song composition is done by Sultan Athor while the OST given by Saad Sultan. The show aired weekly episode for 35 - 40 (without commercials) minutes every Friday to 18 July 2015.

Producer Sadia Jabbar choose, Imran Abbas Naqvi and Maya Ali to play the leading roles of Yousuf and Zulaikha, respectively. [9][10] The actors Mansha Pasha, Waseem Abbas, Behroze Sabzwari, Hina Khawaja Bayat and Seema Seher were selected to portray Madiha, Noor Muhammad, Waji Ahmed, Afiya and Hajira, respectively.

The filming of ‘’Mera Naam Yousaf hai’’ began in November 2014 and was completed on February 2015,[11] under the title Zulaikha Bina Yousuf.[11] With the title of Zulekha Bina Yousuf. It was initially set to release on 12 March 2015 [2] but on 2 March 2015, it was announced that the channel will release it on the 6th of March.[7]

Mera Naam Yousuf Hai originally broadcast on A-Plus Entertainment from 12 March 2015 to 6 July 2015.[7]

The show was rebroadcast in Pakistan on ATV (Pakistan) by the title Gar Badnaam Huay (گر بدنام ہوۓ).

Star India begin its airing on 19 October 2015 on their channel Star Plus and thus becoming the channel's first ever Pakistani drama. The series was aired in UAE, USA, Ireland, UK, Austria, Europe, Canada and Latin America excluding India. Series received extravagant reception in viewership and ratings.[12][13][14] After airing on Star Plus, it was aired on another network of Star India, Life OK. The show was aired from 2 April 2016 to 5 June 2016 and aired on weekends. On Life OK, it was also the first ever Pakistani drama of the channel.[15]

It also aired in India on Zindagi.[16]

Since July 2020, the show is available for online streaming on Indian OTT platform Zee5.

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