Saaya season 1
Saaya is a 2018 Pakistani horror drama television series directed by Syed Muhammad Khurram, produced by Babar Javed and written by Wajeeha Sahar. The drama stars Maham Amir, Sohail Sameer and Kiran Tabeer in lead roles, and premiered on Geo Entertainment. The theme of the series is karma.
In 2021, serial was released on the network's sister channel Geo Kahani. Its second season titled "Saaya 2" premiered on 6 May 2022, on Geo Entertainment. The second season stars Mashal Khan, Momina Iqbal and Danial Afzal Khan.
Plot
The drama revolves around a girl named Sauleha who lives with her husband Rashid and his family. Sauleha is pressured by her mother-in-law to give birth to a son if she wishes to continue living in the house. Sauleha has two daughters and becomes pregnant with a boy, who is exchanged at birth with a girl by a nurse, Qayoom who is desperate for a son. The mother-in-law is forced to keep Sauleha in the house by Rashid but the mother does not give up and so she and her niece do black magic on her making Sauleha have a mental illness and then make a plan to kill Sauleha. They push her off the roof and state that she killed herself. Rashid is forced to marry Saba but he does not accept her as his wife but Saba does not like it. Sauleha starts to haunt the people in the house and once everyone knows about the supernatural presence they stay aware but Sauleha disturbs Saba and Rashid thinks that Saba has an illness. Sauleha continues to haunt the people in the house protecting her daughters and soon reaches out to Qayoom and decides to irritate her.Cast
Main
- Maham Amir as Sauleha
- Sohail Sameer as Rashid
- Kiran Tabeir as Saba
- Faizan Shaikh as Sajid
- Mizna Waqas as Raheela
- Ghana Ali as Maheen
Recurring
- Sumbul Shahid as Ateeqa: Rashid, Sajid and Shela's mother
- Hajra Khan as Shela: Rashid and Sajid's sister
- Saleem Iqbal as Hamid: Rashid, Sajid and Shela's father
- Saleem Mairaj as Shams: a spiritual scholar
- Falaq Naz as Rafiqa: Saba's mother
- Usman Patel as Ishaq: Saba's brother and Maheen's husband
- Sana Pervaiz as Ghana: Saba's friend and Sajid's wife
- Sana Humayun as Dr. Areesha
- Wahaj Ahmed as Qayuum: Raheela's husband
- Zulfikar Ali as Waseem: Shela's husband
- Salma Qadir as Rifat: Shela's mother-in-law
- Vasia Fatima
Child cast
- Khushi Maheen as Pinky: Rashid/Sauleha's second daughter
- Bakhtawar Rasheed as Guriya: Rashid/Sauleha's first daughter
- Anabia as Shafaq: Rashid/Sauleha"s third daughter but actually is Qayum/Raheela's daughter
- Sameer as Ahsan: Shela/Waseem's son
- Sania Zehra as Laraib: (Qayum/Raheela's first daughter
- Hoorain as Manahil: Qayum/Raheela's second daughter
- Alizay as Sidra: Qayum/Raheela's third daughter
- Akbar as Akbar: Qayum/Raheela's fourth son who is actually Rashid/Sauleha's son who the nurse swapped with their daughter
Production
In September 2017, Syed Mohammad Khurram started shooting officially for his horror series "Jinn" which changed to "Saaya" afterwards. Faysal Manzoor headed the project whereas Wajiha Sehar written the script for the series. Shooting for the series started in September 2017 and it had to be launched in January 2018 but due to nikah of two stars of the series Maham Amir and Faizan Shaikh, shooting and editing was interrupted. Later it was launched in March 2018.It was slated to go off air after 55 episodes but due to positive reviews and feedbacks, it was extended with new storyline which was produced by Erfan Ghanchi of Blue Eye Entertainment who previously produced Naagin. Lollywood actress Ghana Ali joined the cast on extension. The serial was concluded on 21 November 2018 with a two hour long episode.