Can Laila and Vicky just get on with it? I am so totally done with their vacillations. Add in to this Faree-D’s tights-n-boots brand of crass humor and you have on your hands a perfect recipe for a flop serial. Faree-D’s ridiculous tripping over the footboard and falling into the bed sequence and Vicky’s never ending flashback (3+ minutes!), at the end of the episode, underscored all that has gone so wrong with this serial. What had started off on such a promising note, a delicious blend of comedy and social critique, has now sadly degenerated into inanity and ridiculousness.
Other than the Laila/Vicky dragfest, not much really happened. Chaudhry Sahab is still in Faisalabad trying to figure how to best handle Malika Rani’s decision to contest the election as an opposition candidate; Faree-D is still in process of asking for Annie’s rishta; Bobby-D’s figuring out how to launch his music career in Pakistan; Naani has apparently left for London; and Aarfa has decided that Mikaal is a perfect match for her daughter. Don’t let this listing make you think that this was a happening episode – it was not.
The one bright spot in an otherwise disappointing episode was the Annie/Mikaal shopping trip. Yes!! Finally Annie went shopping! Although she ended up buying only one outfit, nonetheless this outing made for some sweet moments between Annie and Mikaal. Sadly though, even this little flicker of an interesting moment was cut short by the Laila and Sila’s arrival – they needed to get Laila’s engagement outfit altered. Aargh! Can this girl just get engaged already?
Ho-hum as the whole episode was, the award for the most thoughtless/idiotic sequence must go to the bomb scare moment. Saima Chaudhry/Faree-D’s rivalry over Annie’s rishta leads Saima to order her henchman to plant a firecracker at Rabia’s house. Meanwhile she convinces Chaudhry Sahab to call in a bomb threat to Rabia! Say what?? Given the present situation in Pakistan, where bomb explosions are de rigueur and newspapers are filled with daily stories detailing the tragic loss of hundreds of lives, this was so not funny… Very, very disappointed!
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