I think the new name for this drama should be “Shazia and Nazia: The miserable duo!” I liked the parts between Nazia (Syra Yusuf) and her mother (Samina Peerzada), and all of the parts with Shazia (Sanam Saeed). Nazia’s parts however I bit filmy for me. I get that her main problem right now is her saas (Bushra Ansari), but the whole saas-bahu scenario really isn’t what I want to see in such a great drama.

So Shazia and Nazia are, despite everything, married to Moiz (Imran Abbas) and Fahad (Imran Aslam), while Shehbaz (Adeel Hussain) sits in a corner and cries about his fate. Before analyzing the episode, I’d like to talk about Shehbaz for a second. Even though he wasn’t shown in this episode, he’s inevitably going to make a reappearance some time soon. And frankly, I’d rather he didn’t. I liked him at the beginning of the show, but…he’s gotten kind of weird as the episodes have passed by. And in the last episode when he was in a rage after Nazia’s wedding and was going around shouting “I’ll kill her!” my liking for him waned even more. This guy obviously has anger management problems. He loves Nazia, and yet he wants her life to be ruined because she doesn’t love him back. I don’t know where this drama is going to go, but I can already say that I don’t want Nazia to end up with Shehbaz. He’s obviously not good enough for her.

So we start out with Nazia. Her saas  turns out to be horrible. Well, not horrible per say. But she’s really strict, and wants everything to go her way. The first day of her marriage, Nazia knows that she’s going to have to change her ways in order to conform with her saas. And her husband Fahad isn’t a very big help either. He has the whole “momma’s boy” vibe, and, in his love for his mother, he doesn’t really care about Nazia’s feelings at all.

I said in the last episode that I liked Fahad’s character. I changed my mind. Throughout this episode, we saw that Fahad isn’t a very caring husband. This is only hinted at of course, but you can tell that he is going to get worse as the serial progresses. And he also seems to have a lot of insecurity going on. He keeps talking to Nazia about how beautiful she is, and how he doesn’t deserve her. When he is telling her that the only reason his mother picked Nazia as his wife was because of her beauty, and she asks “Laikin mere shoq, meri sochein?” he replies, “Woh kahan se beech mein agaein?”

….

Yeah, I definitely don’t like him.

Then we move onto Shazia. Her husband Moiz is really nice, funny, sweet, everything anyone would really want in a husband. Shazia is however, still having doubts about him because of the whole Nazia thing. She hints at this every now and then, but Moiz hasn’t mentioned anything, except for saying that whatever mistakes he made before his wedding aren’t going to interfere with his married life. Good for him! Out of all three of the heroes, I like Moiz the best so far.

But, Moiz’s father (Sajid Hassan) is the complete opposite of his son. He doesn’t know how to do anything except yell the most digusting insults at his wife, and remind his son that it’s because of his money that he is well-educated. Moiz can’t stand his father, and after a day where there’s a particularly nasty fight, packs his and Shazia’s stuff right away and gets ready to leave. He tells Shazia that he is going to try his best to always keep her happy, because he hates his father and never wants to be a husband like him.

Poor Shazia is really stuck right now. Her husband is vowing to always keep her happy, and yet she can’t be happy. The only reason Moiz is doing this is because he doesn’t want to be like his father, not because he loves Shazia.

All the actors are doing a fantastic job, so I must give credit to both them and the director, Adnan Ahmed. The only actor I would say that is excelling besides the senior actors is Imran Abbas. All the others are doing a great job as well, though. Syra Yusuf is doing much better than she was at the beginning of the serial, and hopefully she’ll keep raising her standard as the episodes go by

—Noorie