I think the term Dil e Nadaan means my foolish heart or perhaps we could stretch it to, my innocent or even naïve heart. This may be Adeel, Sharmeen and Essa’s excuse since they are young and inexperienced,  but echoing Fatima’s sentiments last week ; what excuse do the adults in this serial have for not learning anything or maturing?  Ghazanfer is still playing Sir Lancelot to ‘Zuby’s’ Guinevere, Firduase refuses to use the sense she was born with and as to Farman, well I think major shock therapy is in order .

I think it is quite obvious to  everyone that Firdause is her own worst enemy , if she had not made a fuss no one would be the wiser as to Adeel and Sharmeen’s date and things would have probably fizzeled out in time. So her intervention allows Ghazanfer to ask for Sharmeen’s hand for Adeel even though he knows firsthand how much the latter loves Essa. This is what really struck me as strange at first,  then his curious conversation with Zobeida cleared everything up. Ghazanfer is so stuck in the past that he really cannot see Zobeida but an image he created of her twenty or more years ago. He even says he does not want the mistakes of the past repeated and the look on Zobeida’s face was like a sleeper waking up from a dream. Suddenly a whole new scenario seemed to be opening up before her eyes. Savera Nadeem is simply fabulous and so is Anjuman Rahim, both are flawless in their portrayals.

Two relationships have been nicely contrasted in this episode: Zobeida’s secret relationship with Ghazanfer and Farman’s open relationship with Neelam. The degree of self-delusion and self-righteousness displayed by Zobeida and Ghazanfer is laughable, dono sab se ziyada akalmand bannay hai. Now I understand why they like each other so much, both are very self-assured and confident in their own judgment. Neelam and Farman however, are like most God fearing individuals self-critical and unsure. Farman deceived Zubeida by marrying Neelam in secret; I wonder how he will feel when he eventually discovers the depth of Zobeida’s attachment to Ghazanfer?

So Essa and Sharmine had a silly fight and pretended to hate each other and now, contrary to Mr smart alec lawyer Ghazanfer’s intention, he is putting Adeel into Farman’s role. Why does everyone say Sharmine is a nice girl? Where is she nice? She has an affair with one guy, uses a friend to make him jealous; when that does not work she manipulates her cousin instead. That sounds rather characterless to me. I want to praise the actor playing Essa , he has improved so much since the First episode and I am now glad he did this role.

This whole episode was excellent, just had me glued. Aisha Khan, Nauman Ejaz, Waqas Khan are just so good. The direction is perfect and I even managed to bardasht Sharmeen and Adeel today.

I am covering for Fatima , so I apologise if I made any mistakes or left anything out because this was a bit of a spur of the moment thing . Fatima will be back next week. :)

BY Sadaf