She follows it with a birth certificate, showing his name and the date a few months after she left him. While Ashar sputters and storms in anger, she opens up the folder she brought and throws down a photo on the desk, telling him it is his daughter, Hareem. She lies about her name to get in to see him (no longer the fragile innocent), and once she is in the office, she is even less the fragile innocent. Or, to put it another way, the writers can no longer resist expressing their frustration and anger at their lives through the words of their protagonist.Īnd so we open with Ashar in his usual fancy office while Khirad is riding a crowded bus. Only now, in the last section, Khirad is no longer the sweet innocent and she has no problem expressing the anger of the lower classes against the way they are treated and ignored. But until now, it seemed more like just a general evil rich people thing. All along Ashar’s mother Fareeda and the rest of his family have objected to Khirad because she is poor and out of their class. As with all mass media, the political message can’t be right out there and spoken (if it is, it means it’s not a very good message because no one would object to it). My vague memories from one of my grad school seminars is that Pakistan has a bit of a communist radical political party mixed in with the traditional powerful rich/army parties. But, unlike in the first 2/3rds, she is the one making the decisions and driving her story this time.īy the way, there is some fascinating class stuff burbling under the surface. And once again, just as in the first 2/3rds, it is her arrival that shakes things up. Khizar is off in America, and still obsessed with Sara.īut Khirad is different.
Sara’s mother is still worried about her. Sara is still hopelessly in love with him and trying to be happy as just his best friend. And that is even more clear here, as Khirad is the only one who seems to have really moved forward in the interim.Īshar is working harder than ever, now in glasses! His mother is still worried about him and wants him to be happy and maintain his status. In the last few episodes of the last section, it became more and more clear that Khirad was the main character of the story, not Ashar or Sarah or anyone else. We start this section with a time jump, viewing everyone in their new place. Okay, now SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS If they cast her based on her work in Humsafar, that certainly seems likely. But now those are just preferences and personality, not fears which are stopping her from moving forward.Īnd this is what I hope for Raees, that she is a true partner to Shahrukh in the film, that their marriage is a source of strength and transformation for them both, not merely a “distraction” from the real gangster-y plot.
Mahira keeps her grounded in her quiet manner and reluctance to bring herself forward, to be the center of attention, to make a scene.
#HUMSAFAR DRAMA EPISODE 15 SERIES#
Until, by the final series of episodes, she is almost unrecognizable as the girl we first met. Not that her life was so terrible before, but it was a small life with only her mother and a few close friends, she never had someone before who saw her as this amazing being.īut as time goes on, and the love story runs into predictable difficulties (that’s not a spoiler, right? This is a soap opera, you knew it couldn’t all go smoothly), she takes that confidence and worth given to her by her husband, and how much she desires this new life, and that is what gives her the strength to fight back and find her own voice. First, her husband makes her feel desirable and beautiful and worthy and talented and confident. The best part about her journey as a character, for me, is that it is her love story which makes her unfold herself. And then in later episodes, to be a strong and confident woman. But as the show went on, she revealed herself to be a vibrant and beautiful woman. At first I thought she was kind of eh, because she was just this quiet presence in the room, barely noticed. That is the whole reason I am watching this, to get a sense of her as an actress before seeing Raees. Like 5 hours.īefore getting into SPOILERS, I get to do some discussion of the show as a whole without SPOILERS, fun! First, and most importantly, Mahira Khan is excellent. Which doesn’t sound that impressive until you remember to subtract sleep time. And so I finished 23 episodes on 24 hours. I finished it! Thanks to my disastrous start to the new year (landlord says maybe I can move back in on Tuesday), I spent the weekend huddled in my parents’ guest room, with nothing to do but watch Pakistani soap opera’s on Netflix (yes, I did start Zindagi Gulzar Hai also).
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