Yay! Shamim Hilali is back! Only five episodes too late. Boo! Little did she know that she was walking into this muck of being up Shukk creek without a paddle.
The jousting of the two wives continues with phantom intruders and faked injuries thrown in with jostling for naasta, chai and coffees. Sania (rightly) pushes ‘Sham to act on his decision but if I hear her say “Mein chaali jaongi” or “mujhe aapna app bura lag raha hai” I WILL SCREAM!
You’ve already established that you are full of hot air so stop already. Seherish is still his first wife – a fact you conveniently forget when you were batting your eyelids at a married man so zip it.
‘Sham finally girded his loins to tell Seherish he wants a divorce and then kindly asked her two seconds later to please be normal. Isn’t he thoughtful! Though have to say am glad this didn’t stretch for much longer because there is only so much battle of the wives that I can take.
Seherish dissolved into pleading needy wife. I would prefer she kick those girded loins hard and ask the poster couple for short-term memory loss Mr. Humdardi and Ms. Mazloom to just get the hell out of her house. I for one am squarely in her corner and thankfully, so is her Mother-in-law.
Shamim Hilali in true Yasir Nawaz style arrives at the pivotal moment and surmises all that we have been saying and gives her son an earful. All of ‘Sham’s dialogues about Kya mard ki koi izzat aur sharm nahin hoti rings farcically hollow since rather than deal with his situation, have the wherewithal to face his crumbling marriage he acts, as his mother pointed out, as a jahil mard.
Despite her sympathies with her preferred bahu she finds her Dadi strings being tugged at by cute little Rumi who has the uncanny ability to melt a rock. So while the adults are good about not racking the kiddo through this muck, I shudder to think of his future therapists fees. All this doesn’t go unnoticed by Seherish who poor dear feels left out in the cold.
In an amazing sweeping away of all a social construct – family, relatives, neighbours and the like – it becomes a little hard to swallow that these people live in such a vacuum. Ammi really didn’t know what was going on with her son and bahu for seven months? Ya, not buying it. The acting remains stellar and seeing Shamim Hilali was like a breath of fresh air.
All characters are holding their ground so they seem to be at an impasse. Lord help us all to suffer through the remaining episodes and give it a quick burial at sea.
MM (aka A musing Muslim)
