Yeh Raha Dil () is a Pakistani drama serial which aired on Hum TV on 13 February 2017, starring Ahmed Ali Akbar, Yumna Zaidi and Anum Ahmed as main leads. It was preceded by Sanam. The audience highly praised Ahmed Ali Akbar and Yumna Zaidi's chemistry. It is based on the Turkish romantic comedy series İlişki Durumu: Karışık, which in turn was based on the South Korean series Full House. The Turkish series mentioned currently airs in Pakistan as "Mein Ayeshagul".
Plot
Hayat (Yumna Zaidi) is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father deserted her at a young age, she lives alone in a house and has financial issues, but even that does not dampen her spirits. Instead, she is always in a good mood and adds life to her surrounding.
Zaki (Ahmed Ali) wants to be a chef and marry Nida ( Anam Goher), a model. His father opposes this union and forbids his son to take this step. Desperate to marry Nida, Zaki leaves home and goes to Nepal, where he bumps into Hayat on the plane.
She, too, has been sent there by her friends so she can relax and write a good story which can get published to solve her monetary issues. With Zaki's mom involved in the plan, she plays the emotional card with her husband so he agrees to her son's demands. Hayat and Zaki, now in Nepal, often meet as Hayat faces residential and financial issues while in Nepal, running to Zaki and asking for his help each time.
These meets lead to a fiasco as Nida videocalls Zaki and hears Hayat in the background (who has yet again approached Zaki in his room for one of her issues), leading to misunderstandings between the two. A while later, certain events lead to Hayat telling Nida that Zaki plans to marry her instead, and the two will return to Pakistan after their Nikah. It further leads to misunderstandings between Nida and Zaki. Zaki, in anger, immediately leaves for Pakistan despite Hayat trying to convince him not to leave her alone.
Dejected, Hayat stays for a few more days and decides to return home once she runs out of money. On returning, while Zaki has managed to convince his parents and Nida that Hayat was just someone he had run into in Nepal and was not a fling, Hayat comes back to find that her house has been sold off by her friend Salman (who sent her to Nepal in the first place) and is missing. She tries to look for him but to no avail.
Hayat sneaks into the house at night and decides to stay there, but fate leads her to cross paths with Zaki again. Zaki's father had bought Hayat's house as an investment slash ultimatum for Zaki. He wanted Zaki to convert the place into a restaurant and make it successful in six months to marry Nida.
Zaki sympathizes with Hayat. He discusses with Nida that it's unfair to take Hayat's house away. Nida, who already dislikes Hayat, disagrees with Zaki and gets mad. Hayat takes her luggage and walks on the streets when two robbers try to mug her. Hayat, being emotionally spent, screams at the robbers to kill her. While she yells, the robbers steal her luggage and run off. Zaki drives his car, looking for Hayat, and finds her crying on the street. He then takes her to his house, where he convinces his parents to let her stay until they can find a solution. Hayat states that she is willing to stay in the servant quarters and pay rent until she can figure out how to repay the family for purchasing the house, to which everyone agrees.
During this time, Zaki's father takes note of Zaki's compassion towards Hayat and feels that he is falling in love with her, who he deems to be a much better partner for his son than Nida. After that, Nida's parents come to Pakistan from Dubai to plan for her wedding. Nida tells them that her father-in-law has put on one condition until Zaki and Nida can establish a restaurant business within six months, there will be no marriage.
Nida's father wanted to see where the restaurant was going to establish. He had returned to Pakistan after twenty years. On seeing the house Hayat Manzil, he wanted more information about the owners from Zaki. Zaki informed him that the house belonged to Hayat, until it was bought by his father. Zaki, discovering that Aafaq is Hayat's father, thinks to surprise Hayat by having the two meet in the garden, unaware of the strained relationship between the two.