Has anyone heard “The Song That Never Ends” from Shari Lewis (The Lamb Chop’s Sing Along, Play Along)? Well this is the serial that never ends!! After going from 20 episodes, to 22 to 24, now it’s 26 (we can all hope). Dear Urdu 1 and Six Sigma, please hum pe aur apne actors pe rehem ker dein… If there is anyone left who is still watching and reading, trust me when I say this, no reviewer wants to ever write a bad review, unless they are forced to.
Acha jee, so what happened in episode 24th? Well Jamshed is still unbearable and conniving. Michelle is still acting more like his mother than his fiance. She is still blind by this guy she just met a few months ago and stands their still while he calls the police and reports Rizwan for harassment, even though all he was trying to do was save his best friend from another heartache. Can someone please explain to me how she doesn’t even give Rizwan a chance to explain what had happened and just believed Jamshed’s utter nonsense?
Bhatti Saheb is still playing the victim card. Oh how Allah showed the day when “bachon ke saamne bhi villian bana diya…” Yeah, well you are trying to take a daughter’s mother away from her and (in Iman’s mind) her family. You Bhatti, are supposed to be the grown up, not her. And I’m pretty sure I was supposed to feel something for him when he was talking to his mother, when he was talking to Javed, and when he called Jamshed to say good bye…I’m pretty sure I was supposed to say ‘such tear jerker scenes, such fabulous emotions being displayed and blah blah blah!’ But seriously, I felt nothing…perhaps if this was 8 episodes ago, and JH was winding down, I might have felt something, but at this point not so much. To be honest, I felt more for Sikander than I did for Bhatti. How sad is that? I’ll give Ali Kazmi’s brilliant acting abilities the credit for this.
Speaking of Sikander, the guy really has changed. This might be the only track I’m semi interested it, still. A brush with death really can completely change some people and that is exactly what happened with him. Earlier when he was pretending, even Iman saw through to him, when Salma didn’t. But now she sees how ‘daddy’ has really changed for the good and craves that family that she never got, but might actually, finally, have the chance to get, to be part of. The girl playing Iman perfectly evokes all the emotions a girl her age would go through if this was happening in real life. I can also understand why Salma would choose Iman over going to Pakistan with Bhatti. The love of a mother can not compare to any other love in this world. Even Tai Jee (and I really can’t believe I’m saying this) sounded sincere in her offer to leave so Salma would stay.
And this was it folks, this is all that happened. Throughout the last 24 weeks, the one thing that stayed constant was Ali Kazmi and Amina Sheikh’s fabulous portrayal of their characters. That I am now starting to feel for Sikander and can understand Salma’s decision to leave has only and only to do with how flawless and real their performances have been. Noman Ijaz had his moments and I was happy to see get out of his ‘vadera’ role, but on a whole, he was average. Adeel Hussain, with the exception of a couple episodes, failed miserably as Jamshed. No doubt he has the looks, but he couldn’t save Jamshed. In fact after the first few episodes, it felt like he didn’t want to. Mehreen’s direction is another thing that was constantly on par. There is only so much she could have done with what she had to work with.
