Choti Choti Batain

Choti Choti Batain is a 2019 Pakistani anthology television series, created and developed by Shahzad Javed, Head of Content, HUM TV, co-produced by Momina Duraid of MD Productions and Angeline Malik.

The series is promoted as a collection of different stories for breaking stereotypes prevailing in the Pakistani society. Malik earlier announced the title of the series as Inkaar Karo which was later changed to Choti Choti Batain.

Story 3
The story explores the life of single parents, how they feel when their children grow up and get busy with their lives. Saif (Osama Tahir) and Anaya (Hajra Yamin) are married couples living with Saif's father, Hassan (Sajid Hassan) while Sofia (Atiqa Odho) is the single mother of two daughters, Aliya (Mariyam Nafees) and Neha (Sukaina Khan). Slowly after their children's marriage, Hassan and Sofia realize what they are missing on; they crave companionship. Both by fate meet each other and ends up being a couple after a little family drama in both families.

Story 6
The story follows the life of Zeena (Amar Khan) who is a plain looking young woman from a middle-class family in Karachi. Zeena is a sincere worker. She is naive but intelligent. She has faced rejection largely from society simply because of her looks. Zeena somehow lands her dream job at Office. She is appointed as the assistant to Rehaan (Muneeb Butt) and after a rough start soon becomes indispensable at work. She falls in love with Rehaan but keeps her feelings to herself.

Story - 1 (Bandhan)

 * Zahid Ahmed as Fahad
 * Yumna Zaidi as Bisma
 * Farah Shah as Salma; Fahad's mother
 * Saima Qureshi as Nayla; as Bisma's mother
 * Saife Hassan as Nasir; Bisma's father
 * Khalid Anam as Raza; Fahad's father

Story - 2 (Mujhay Tum Pasand Ho)

 * Ushna Shah as Pareshay (Pari)
 * Mohsin Abbas Haider as Akaash
 * Hina Dilpazeer as Akaash's mother
 * Shahood Alvi as Akaash's father
 * Shermeen Ali as Samiya
 * Fazila Qazi as Pari's mother
 * Sajid Shah as Pari's father
 * Ikram Abbasi as Umair
 * Hasan Khan as Shahid

Story - 3 (Dil Hi Tou Hai)

 * Atiqa Odho as Sofia Arif/Sofia Hassan
 * Mariyam Nafees as Aliya Raheel
 * Sukaina Khan as Neha Waqar
 * Hajra Yamin as Anaya Saif
 * Osama Tahir as Saif Hassan
 * Saman Ansari as Shehnaz
 * Sajid Hassan as Hassan Ahmed

Story - 4 (Kuch Toh Log Kahenge)

 * Kubra Khan as Sana
 * Shehzad Sheikh as Zain/Guddu
 * Saba Hameed as Shaista
 * Gul-e-Rana as Guddu's mother
 * Shehryar Zaidi as Taimoor
 * Ahson Talish as Ahmad

Story - 5 (Wajah Tum Ho)

 * Saheefa Jabbar Khattak as Hania
 * Azfar Rehman as Sarim
 * Hira Tareen as Nadia
 * Tipu Sharif as Tanveer

Story - 6 (Roop)

 * Amar Khan as Zeena
 * Muneeb Butt
 * Mehmood Aslam
 * Lubna Aslam
 * Rubina Ashraf
 * Ghana Ali
 * Rabya Kulsoom
 * Sara Razi

Release
The series airs weekly on Hum TV every Sunday evening. It had been hiatus during Ramadan after Mujhay Tum Pasand Ho as the channel ran a transmission the whole day for the first time in years, leaving space for very few serials in a week. It resumed with Dil Hi Toh Hai on 9 June 2019. Each episode of the drama has near one million or at least one million views on YouTube.