OK, so I know that I’ve said before that all of Nazia (Syra Yousuf) and her mother in-law’s (Bushra Ansari) scenes were too reminiscent of the typical saas-bahu story. But I’ll admit it, I was wrong!

While I would usually be turned off by a story involving saas-bahu problems, I really like how Nazia’s saas’s character is portrayed. She isn’t really a bad person, or ill-wishing towards her bahu…she just seems to have a problem with everything. Everything Nazia does or says is wrong in her book. However, I love the dialogues that Samira Fazal has created for her. “Nahin, chocolate mat dalna dood mein! Chocolate peeyo gi tou chocolate ke rang ka bacha nikle ga!”

And then the new problem: Nazia’s kid. Is it going to be a boy or a girl? As far as Nazia’s saas is concerned, it’s a boy no doubt about it. According to the doctor in the next episode preview however, it’s a girl. I can’t wait to see how Nazia’s saas is going to react when she finally finds out, but I’m also hoping that there won’t be too much of a reaction.

And now onto Shazia (Sanam Saeed), or more importantly, her insane husband Moiz (Imran Abbas). This guy has too many problems to count. He drinks, sits at home and does nothing all day while his wife works, and then beats her and calls her names when she gets home. Oh, and he’s also going crazy over his wife’s “cousin”. I mean, really? How low can you get? Poor Shazia spends all her time either listening to his insults or wiping his tears away. She made the right to decision in finally deciding to leave him. He didn’t deserve her.

And Moiz’s father’s (Sajid Hassan) dialogue when Moiz remarked that he was just like him was just perfect. “Tum meri tarhan nahin, apni maa ki tarhan ho! Besharam, nikhatu!” As far as I’m concerned, Moiz’s father is better than him. Yes, he beats his wife and insults her. But Moiz does that too. At least his father gave her a house to live in, and kept her izzat intact. Moiz on the other hand doesn’t seem to care if the world knows how he treats his wife.

And then the whole Nazia issue. I just don’t know what’s wrong with Moiz. Yes, Nazia’s pretty. But that’s all he knows about her! He has never even had a real conversation with Nazia, and yet he’s mooning over her like a lovestruck idiot!

So I know that I previously said that the director, Adnan Ahmed, wasn’t anything spectacular, and his directing was just so-so. But I have to admit that I was wrong about that too. The way that all of the scenes were directed, not only in this episode but the previous four, was pretty amazing. And another reason why I have to give it up for the director is because of the casting. Yeah, I know I’ve already talked way too much about the casting of Shazia and Nazia’s characters, but still, he did a pretty good job in finding people to fit their roles, as well as the casting for Fahad (Imran Aslam) and Moiz’s characters. And I don’t think anyone would have been able to portray the roles of Nazia’ mother-in-law and Shazia’s father-in-law better than Bushra Ansari and Sajid Hassan. All-in-all, I’d have to give the director a thumbs up.

I just have one little issue about today’s episode; when Moiz wakes up the next day after being drunk and Shazia asks him how he’s feeling, he replies that he feels great and energized and whatnot. Um…I’m pretty sure that most people feel horrible after a hangover. :P

-Noorie