Love at First Sight.
We have all experienced it at some point, fantasizing about establishing a relationship with the person.
But how far would you go to achieve this?!
#LAUTAAOMELKOR!
Mehak Akram belongs to a simple middle class family. They might not have all the luxuries in the world, but they sure do have immense love for each other. Mehak's father, Akram is a professor and a hardworker, who wants the best for his girls. Mehak is not only his daughter, but his best friend too. What truly stands out is the bond they share.
Mehak is engaged to Ahsan, her first cousin. Ahsan is very much in love with her, however Mehak sees it more as marrying a lifelong friend. It was her father's wish and who is she to do against him? Mehak thought that she has her entire life planned for her- completing her education, marrying Ahsan and then completing her responsibilities as a wife and daughter.
What she did not know was her life was going to change forever.
Whilst going to college with her father, uncle and her sister, Nida, a rashly driven BMW early causes them to have an accident. That was not the end of it. When they stopped at a signal, they saw the drive, a young handsome man, bullying a motorcycle rider to break the signal. Mehak's father, a righteous man, stands up for what is right...only to be at the receiving end of a gun. Mehak rushes to save him, apologizing to the driver and dragging her father.
But in a way, it was too late. The driver, who was driving under influence, was now intoxicated in her love. The man was dragged away by his friend, but he had already decided what he wanted in his life. And that was Mehak.
The man was Shamsher Dilawar, belonging to a Nawab family. Brash, arrogant, impulsive and violent, his obsession with Mehak starts when he reaches her house the next day and announces to her parents that he'll be marrying their daughter.
That does not stop him from pursuing Mehak. Shamsher turns up at her college, and her house at night to take her out for dinner. In order to prevent a scene, Mehak reluctantly agrees to go with him...only to reject his advances at the venue.
An angry Shamsher does the unthinkable- he gets Mehak's father arrested for a crime the man did not commit, and nearly gets him a life of jail time but Mehak coaxes him not to, by only saying his name repeatedly on a phone call...which was all Shamsher wanted. Akram returns home distraught and has a panic attack. Shamsher's insane act makes her family realise they need to do something quickly, before he actually ends up marrying Mehak.
The only solution they come up with is to marry off Mehak to Ahsan as soon as possible. Alas, Shamsher finds out through the grapevine (thanks to Ahsan's mother, Andaleeb). He arrives at Mehak's house completely furious and kidnaps Ahsan, leaving every stressed and worried. After successfully creating fear in Ahsan's mind, he convinces Ahsan to break off the engagement and keep him updated of everything going on in the Akram House.
Mehak and her family are highly disappointed and hurt. Akram decides to leave Karachi silently and hide at a relative's house for a few days, hoping that Shamsher gets over his obsession. However, a major problem arises when Nida, Mehak's sister has to appear for her examinations. Shamsher, beyond angry and frustrated reaches new levels of madness. He gets his friend, Shahmeer, to find out Nida's exam centre and turns up there, waiting in a car.
Nida spots him and freezes momentarily. While Shamsher cannot see her face because she is wearing a niqab, he understands its her. Nida ends up failing the exam but has the brainwave of exchanging her schoolbag with another girl wearing the niqab, hence creating a fake trail for Shamsher. While it seemed like the family managed to dodge a bullet...think again.
At Shahmeer's house, Shamsher recognises the writing on a thermocol food package as Mehak's. He compares it to the Leave letter he got from Mehak's college principal. Elated he has found her, Shamsher rushes to the address of the home-based food company, which was run by Mehak's aunt. As fate would have it, it was Mehak who opened the door and got hold of her, threatening her with her entire family's death if she chose to run away again.
Akram defeatedly returns to Karachi where Mehak informs Shamsher she will marry him. Shamsher thinks he is the king of the world, now that Mehak would officially be his. But that was not it. Shamsher (and Mehak) had no idea of the danger looming over their head.
You see the Nawab family, headed by Shamsher's father Nawab Dilawar, was dead against the marriage. But he was not your regular father who would create a scene and blackmail his son to get over the "girl". No, he was ruthless, unapologetic and could go to any lengths for his own family. When after numerous times of telling Shamsher that his wedding with the "lower-class" Mehak was not possible, Dilawar hatches a plan to kill the girl.
On the day of the nikah, as Mehak is on her way to the wedding venue, a truck crashes into her car and Sheru, Dilawar's accomplice, lights the car on fire after dowsing it with petrol. Shamsher is totally broken while Mehak's mother is in utter shock. Akram tries to hold it together for the sake of his family when he receives a phone call from his brother to reach the location as discreetly as possible.
In a shocking turn of events, Mehak is alive, albeit injured. In the midst of a tearful reunion, the trio decide to keep this a secret and Akram decides the best decision is to send Mehak away to Multan for her own safety. She boards the train at night itself and leaves Karachi.
However...just outside the train station at Multan, Sheru spots her getting on a rickshaw. He freaks out to say the least, knowing what Dilawar would do to him, but decides that it was just an illusion.
Mehak finds it difficult to adjust to her new life as she misses her family terribly. Meanwhile at Nawab mansion, everyone except Shamsher finds out it was Dilawar who is responsible for Mehak's "death". And speaking of Shamsher...he becomes a shell of what he was. He is in severe depression, not having the will to live.
Ahsan, on the other hand, sick of everyone's taunts, decides enough is enough and sneaks into Nawab mansion to order to kill Shamsher. The good-for-nothing security guards are more than incompetent as Ahsan sneaks into Shamsher's bedroom.
A lost and unfazed Shamsher smiles at Ahsan, encouraging him to fire his gun. Ahsan does so, with shaky hands, wounding Shamsher.
Will Shamsher survive? Will Mehak return to her family? Will the two ever come face to face again?
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