Wanted: An experienced psychotherapist who can successfully treat severe cases of cognitive dissonance, wimpicitis and badlaittis. You also might need to call a massive search for missing brains. Anyone? Heck at this point we’ll even settle for a script doctor!
I called the cat fights last week so these scenes fighting for my shohar and the right to his stomach with do pyali chai, coffee, sandwiches, I’ll make dinner, No we are going out for dinner were just so off putting! Clearly Sham is into it because he consoles Seherish with the soothing balm of Go woman make me some coffee! Because you’ll feel soooo much better after being mocked by my second wife by making me some coffee.
And then what? Massage my feet? I would have felt better if Seherish took a cue from the Lorreta Bobbit playbook instead of prancing off to the kitchen to do as she was told by her lord and master. Seherish is in denial but still willing to play unpaid baby sitter while attempting to erase Sham’s re-marriage.
She blames herself for being childless and spirals into self-doubt without once seeing how she has a big role to play in this and is now plotting revenge. I wonder what she is hanging on to since Sham has made it clear they can’t reverse time and that she herself would never be able to trust him again. I’d ask that Seherish throw them both out bag and baggage, file for divorce and move on with life. If Aisha Khan wasn’t such a terrific actress, this character would be pathetic and whiny.
Speaking of pathetic and whiny, Sania is constantly saying something else and doing something else. Someone please give her a serious whack on the side of her head. I don’t know why but Sania is really rubbing me the wrong way. Who in their right mind would want to live in a situation like this and if nothing else would you please think of your son and his future therapist fees?
While Rumi thinks she’s turning into his Dadi she’s actually taking notes on how to be like Seherish. (Shh- don’t tell Sham!) Though at least she is pushing Sham to divorce Seherish….
Speaking of whimping out, Sham is proving to be such a spineless son of an unwed mother that I would like to personally gather his belongings, throw them out of the house and give him a kick in the seat of his pants. Your too full tummy causing food coma and making you forget that you have to settle this?
And how pray tell do you end your first marriage on a good note if you ended up marrying the woman you were accused of having an affair with? I don’t think friendzoning the first missus works in this case. Of course he has a better solution – Let’s leave all this domestic bickering and go out for dinner! Yay! More food!
Points for acting and direction and even some good dialogue with subtext (Although if you keep having your leads saying shukk over and over again you lose that a little) but to paraphrase what Seherish said: You thought you had a good play but there are too many loopholes.
I second RB’s diagnosis Bi-polar? Be-Shukk!
MM (aka A musing Muslim)
