Ho Hum. What a conundrum–Nabeel is in the running for the catch of the century with both his bhabhis stringing the bait, sorry I mean potential bahu, while the boss is chasing the secretary’s chador.
Romaisa is rightly perturbed by her boss’s (or bass as Alia would say) incessant personal remarks. Nabeel himself is playing out the HR video brief on how not to behave at work. (Word to the hardworking folks who were not hired for pretty looks, if you do any of this Nabeelgiri at your office especially this side of the Pacific, you will have a lawsuit on your hands.) Anyhow, since we are expected to check credibility out at the doorstep of this drama, let’s not quibble on his HR breeching behavior, someone just fire him. Oh wait, he’s the top dog or the sea bass if you will, so sigh, never mind.
Ok well since we are all in it for the eye candy, let me go to there.
Mikaal in riding breeches and Adeel in uniform make quite the dream team. Also enjoyable was their brotherly banter. Both of them seemed to have a good time joking and kidding around and the bit about Zeeshan’s pocket being picked was actually quite funny. Their exchanges have a nice breezy quality about them which still manages to hint at both their characters – Nabeel the flirt with extravagant hobbies and tastes and Zeeshan of clear conscious eking out an honest days’ work. So nice writing there.
Also good on Nabeel for rapping kid sisters knuckles and maybe, just maybe, knocking some sense into her. She could do without her constant huffing and puffing though.
Romaisa, the sheltered girl that she is is naturally nervous about all the attention and gadgets and her solution to leave her job is all in character I’ll give you that. It’s just that Sanam Jung plays all of that (and more) in B major that’s B as in blank.
Even the long winded scenes (her sleeping, the car ride) meant to give her an opportunity to emote get the same vacant stare. Your pretty doe eyes can only get you so far love. Word to the wise, when in doubt edit it out. Or really just edit her already, it will pick up the pacing, cut out the repetition and it might make the main lead more tolerable.
Heck, even Farah Shah’s loudness is more tolerable. Alia still remains the most enjoyable character to watch whether enjoying the spoils of her ‘shapping’, swapping SIM cards or awaiting bass’s calls. Mansha Pasha’s got the better end of the deal here – funny dialogues that her greater range as an actor can do justice to.
Next time, lets hope we get more dream team and less dreamy stares….
MM (aka A musing Muslim)
