Sacrebleu! Excuse my French, I was cringing over the casual use of expletives in today’s episode. How many times will the writer reinstate that Afzal is a k@****a? WE GET IT! So now that our Afzal is in Karachi, he befriends another bura aadmi like himself- Babu Hameed (The 70s called- they want Babu Hameed back!) Babu invites him to stay with him- erm, yes, we seem to be seeing one too many dostaana type friendships lately. Afzal in turn offers to pay off his rent debt. Babu mentions his vicious maalik makaan ki beti– Yasmeen but his intro wasn’t complete without our writer’s favorite adjective- k@****i! Since *singing* it’s a small world after all, Yasmeen happens to be the same lady Afzal saw on the train. This mother-daughter duo of Farah Nadeem and Sohai Ali Abro have haunted me in their past appearances in Tanhaii and Khoya Khoya Chaand and I was devastated to see them here.
Enough of my melodrama, getting back to the drama, Farah feels sorry for Aunty Ruqayya and Molvi Saheb (really?) since their only son has left for Karachi and Lubna mocks her saying that she’s fallen in love with Afzal. Farah stands by her statement of feeling bad for his parents but nah, I’m not buying it. Lubna warns her Barabar ka soloog karega tumharey saath and for a split second Farah seems intimidated. But that was just for a split second, mind you. Our tigress is back in full form and she announces her desire to pursue her M Phil in Karachi instead of London, but this time around Sheikh Saheb blunty lets out a big fat NO! About time, isn’t it? Sheikh Saheb’s defining moment- Mein Tumhara Baap Houn Koi Chaney Beechney Wala Nahin! Now that her parents know that Farah acts before she thinks, they’ve finally opened their eyes and want to put an end to her manmaani.
Afzal continues his male bonding routine and confides in Babu about how he’s come to Karachi to become a bara aadmi and how he won’t leave until he accomplishes his goals. Meh. Since they didn’t want to make us uneasy, they used plenty of cricket analogies to keep the conversation flowing. With the letters out of sight, so was Arifa thankfully! Did anyone else do a happy dance that she wasn’t around? If I were to sum up this episode in one word, I would say DISAPPOINTED. This was such a promising story and had a raw, feel-good factor but alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
Thoughts? Views? Comments? How did you find this episode? Do you like the new characters? Do you think Sohai will transform into the tragedy queen (ah-gain)?
Kanwal Murtaza
