After watching today's episode I have to say that this drama definitely has a very filmi feel. There has to be a song or a qawali or both in every episode, which mostly does not really fit in and I would much rather fast forward it. Sometimes i feel like i am watching “Shashlik”! The Zebu-Rohail scene where he is giving her 'shooting' lessons was yet another 'uncalled-for' scene.
Coming to what happened in today's episode, Mehru finally decided to share her secret with Rohail and he was shocked and disturbed to hear all that Mehru had to say. Mehru seemed like the only 'genuine' character in the play till now but she disappointed me today (maybe because I expected her to be the 'devi'), by showing her 'other side' when she was with Bilal, she really sounded like a different woman. Rohail is spending way too much time with Zebu and I have to say Deenga maybe a drug addict but the man has great observation! Rohail shares everything with his friend Bedi and I find it very annoying the way Bedi cannot keep anything to himself and goes and reports everything to Madiha. That seems like a very feminish thing to do, men are not like that!
This is practically all that happened in today's episode. Firstly let's talk about the positives. I really liked the scene at the darbar where Mehru revealed her secret to Rohailand the conversation that followed, the dialogues were superb and the chemistry between the two actors was even more so. I love the green fields and the way they are covered, probably another reason for the filmi feel, the camera work is superb. The scene where Rohail goes to talk to his mother and she is praying was also brilliantly done, it really felt like a heart-felt mother-son moment although Rohail shared nothing with his mother.
Now for the negatives. First of all I do not want to waste my time listening to lengthy song sequences in every episode. And I really did not get the mime scene, was it Zebu's imagination? And if it was then why was Rohail such a big part of it? It came and went and seemed completely irrelevant. I understand that Rohail is getting married to Mehru just for the sake of his mother but then Fawad Khan's body language really does not suggest that, the way he looks at Mehru etc suggests something diffent and leaves the viewer totally clueless. Fawad Khan is such a brilliant actor but there have been times in this play when his charcter has left me totally confused. I do not understand Bedi Singh's obsession with Madiha and why he keeps on trying to convince her that Rohail will come back to her. I felt like too many things were being repaetated today and some of the dialogues were totally unnecessary like Bedi's phone conversation with Rohail was unbearable, he was just repeating what Rohail was saying.
I would like it if there are no songs in the next episode and the play to pick up some pace so that we can enjoy the actual story. Over-all in my opinion the play has to been going in reverse because until now, the first episode was the best of all three.
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Author: Fatima Awan.
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