I’ve had generally positive thoughts towards Mastana Mahi, but I have to say that this episode was incredibly slow. The direction byRoomi Insha during the story-telling scenes was just beautiful, and the transitions between the present and the flashbacks was great as well. But Aalin’s (Mehreen Raheal) story took up just about the whole episode, even though it could have been told a lot faster.

I did, however, like how even after so much time had passed after her and Mike’s (Imran Peerzada) divorce, she still believed that it was his fault that they were no longer together. It took Adal (Fahad Mustafa) convincing her for her to realize that she herself didn’t want to live with him anymore. Hats off to Samira Fazal for showing her psyochological progress throughout the whole ordeal.

Besides that, nothing much happened in the episode. It was slow, and I found myself wishing that the story had progressed more.

Mehreen Raheal’s acting was very good in this episode. My biggest problem with her is usually her dialogue delivery, but she did a pretty good job this episode, and her expressions were really believable as well. Imran Peerzada’s dialogue delivery really irked me in all of his scenes, as his voice was completely monotonous throughout the whole episode. The best acting in the episode by far was Fahad Mustafa’s, his expressions being his selling point.

All in all, the episode was pretty disappointing. Hoping the story will pick up soon,

-Noorie