Turkish title: İlişki Durumu: Karışık English title: Relationship Status: Complicated Urdu title: Main Ayeshagul For the cast and characters and reviews of previous episodes, read here. Let’s get started. Aysegul and Can both recall their conversation with Ece and Efe respectively and imagine themselves dealing with hyper-annoying kids. Can visits the hospital to see the…
Main Ayeshagul | Episode 50
Turkish title: İlişki Durumu: Karışık English title: Relationship Status: Complicated Urdu title: Main Ayeshagul For the cast and characters and reviews of previous episodes, read here. Let’s get started. Aysegul and Can arrive at a small wooden hut in the middle of the jungle. After some dilly dallying, Can tells her why he left at…
Main Ayeshagul | Episode 79
For the cast and characters and reviews of previous episodes, read here. Let’s get started. So, Murat is bedridden and Aysegul is looking after him. Both take turns apologizing. So, boring. Bahar-e-Gul, young Ismail’s nanny leaves her at the hospital and takes the baby home. Mediha is meeting her new would-be in-laws. Neyazi’s mother is…
Yeh Dil Mera | Episode 25 | Aina, Farooq, Ali Bakhsh versus Amaan
Let’s review episode 25. If you’re new to this drama and interested in knowing the characters and previous episodes’ reviews, and you should, read here. It will help you understand the story better. PLOT SUMMARY & COMMENTARY Farooq gradually finds out Amaan’s truth, though Amaan has smartly covered his track. The way Farooq narrates everything…
COVID-19 Diaries | National Lockdown | Day #22
I had to take half day leave from work to get groceries, can you believe that? After my initial stint in getting the essentials, I had decided that I will try to get the next batch of grocery long before it’s over. That is, 2-3 days in advance. On Friday, I went out to get…
Book Promotion | Utth Jaag Musafir Bhor Bhaee
Dear reader, I have published a short essay about the national lockdown owing to COVID-19 pandemic. I would be delighted to get any feedback. To read Urdu edition, click here. To read Hindi edition, click here.
Song Obsession | Bol Kaffara
Yep, I am back with one of these. I discovered this song sometime last week. Calling it a discovery would be wrong, because it was YouTube’s amazing algorithm that suggested this song. Although the song is supremely romantic, the lyrics have a sufi undertone and the qawwali like composition instantly attracted me to the song….
COVID-19 Diaries | National Lockdown & My Creative Writing
The original 21-days lockdown was expected to end today. It didn’t. The pandemic is still not under control. The lockdown is extended until May 3, 2020. I have a million random thoughts during this lockdown. And, I am glad to announce that I have penned down a few. Sharing a piece – my comic, satirical…
Ishqiya | Episode 11
Check out the Cast and Characters before you read the review. It won’t make much sense otherwise. And, you can read previous episodes’ reviews here. Review So, Hamza threatens that he wouldn’t bring baraat. Rumi teases Azeem. It is the only fun scene in this episode and Gauhar Rasheed is so effing good in his…
Emergency Love | Episode 74
For Cast & Characters and review of previous episodes, please read here. PLOT SUMMARY & MY COMMENTARY I stand corrected. Hassan has not forgotten about Abidin. Ehsaan and Murat catch him and take him away. Does it bother Abidin? No. He’s playing with the window glasses – slide up, slide down. Hassan questions Abidin about…