First of all this isn’t review, more of a reaction to this week’s episode. With Thirty episodes I knew this serial was going to drag at some point and I think we are officially there. I hope Hum Tv are happy because I am guessing it’s the producers who decide to stretch the serial out oops I meant make it commercially viable.

Truth be told this episode should have been called Phupo/ Bahteeja. We were given more and more needless insights into both Roohi and Moiz’s psyche but quite frankly I was supremely uninterested. Roohi was rude and small minded again refusing any help and unsurprisingly demanding a divorce for her daughter from Wali. It is high time Sanam Saeed moved on from this one note character she seems to play in every other serial .  it is refreshing to see a strong woman ,speaking her mind and calling a spade a spade but its getting very predictable and honestly tiresome to have to sit through the same performance again and again . If she had just given Roohi some vulnerability , some self doubt just something to differentiate her from Fizza from Daam ,Baji Kashaf from ZGH and the whats her name from Qadurat it might have worked .

Meanwhile Mr. Touchy-feely, Bahteeja Moiz was busy taking Faraa out for lunch, dinner, etc and dropping and picking her up from college.  Moiz has also not surprisingly developed an extreme dislike for Wali who may not have noticed Moiz’s existence except in passing. The anti Agha Jaan campaign has now become the anti Wali campaign and Faraa is soaking it up.If Moiz and Roohi were not enough, Mamu Tajamul has now put it in Faraa’s head that Wali might kidnap her (chance would be a fine thing). That fear and apprehension of Wali which has settled deep into Faraa’s mind was the only significant or interesting thing this week otherwise most of this could have been spliced in with last week’s episode. The ever thoughtful Tajamul also persuades Roohi to ask for Behroz‘s inheritance and money for Faraa’s education from her hated In laws. This struck me as bit cheap but that is the great thing about Roohi’s family they are…… ahem ..practical.

The saving graces of this week’s episode were Wali and Faraa who provided something interesting to watch. Wali finally got a few lines other than “jee Baba jee” and we got to see him taking on the reigns of his family estate, a big responsibility at such a young age. Faraa is an only child and the loss of her father seems to be the loss of her only friend too. There hasn’t really been a scene of closeness between mother and daughter; in fact Roohi seems closer to Moiz.  So if Faraa is drawing closer to Moiz it’s to be expected he is the only one who reassures her or thinks of her.

I am hoping we get to see the Wali /Faraa track start ASAP because that is why I started watching this serial. Roohi and the rest have had their turn for 16 episodes and it is getting tiresome watching them. Just think if Humsafar had given over five or six episodes to Farida’s life story; how she married Asher’s father, how they struggled and got their business and how Zarina managed to raise a girl like Sara etc.. It would have made Humsafar much less interesting though it might have been part of the story.

I really want to believe the promo which seems to promise that there is some interaction between Wali and Faraa but remembering ZGH which was another serial stretched to breaking point with side characters taking needless air time, I’m not too hopeful. But if it is, Thank God! Because  that one scene ,was more interesting than this entire episode.

written by Sadaf

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