Malaal e Yaar  Malaal e Yaar () is a Pakistani television serial produced by Momina Duraid under MD Productions. Based on the feudal system, it explores the ritual of early settled marriages. The main theme revolves around two persons from opposite backgrounds who hate each other but eventually fall in love, bounded by a marriage only on paper. It stars Mirza Zain Baig, Azekah Daniel, Zainab Shabir, Hamza Firdous and Jahanzeb Gorchani in leading roles. It gained local and foreign viewership soon after its first episode went on-air. The story concerns a family of wealthy feudals whose head and heir are orthodox and follow century old feudal mechanism. The serial starts with parallel scenes of the protagonists; Balach (بالاچ) (Zain Baig) and Hooriya (Azekah Daniel). Hooriya is a headstrong young girl living in the metropolitan city of Karachi and pursuing quality education. She likes wearing western clothes and rides a bike and is always ready to do any sort of social work. Balach on the other hand is a feudal boy of a nearby village, where his taya Malik Shahbaz (Jahanzeb Gorchani) is the head of the district. Balach's parents died when he was an infant and was raised up by his aunt Surraya (Seemi Pasha), Malik Shahbaz's wife. Being under his taya's supervision, Balach has apparently turned out to be cruel and ill-mannered. He even gave up his studies as education was not valuable for him being the future head of his tribe. Not known to both Balach and Hooriya is that they are engaged since childhood, as Hooriya is the daughter of Malik Shahbaz's younger step-brother Malik Wajahat. Wajahat (Sohail Sameer) fell in love with his college-mate Samreen (Humera Bano) and married her against the wishes of his family. His brother Malik Shahbaz has ever since blamed him for this act and does not give him the due recognition and respect which Wajahat deserves being part of the Malik family. In all matters of decision-making, Balaaj is above Wajahat. Succumbing to his family's pressure, Wajahat had got married for the second time to Saeeda (Natasha Ali), a girl chosen by his brothers, even when he was a father of two daughters with Samreen.