Chanda Tara is an upcoming Ramzan special drama on Hum TV. It’s a sit-com as usual, and has a solid team behind it-the team that has given us projects like Chupke Chupke and Hum Tum and Kaala Doriya.

Writer: Saima Akram Chaudhry

Director: Danish Nawaz

Producer: Momina Dauraid Productions

Chand Tara Episode 13 Written Update & Review

Alrighty, it’s time to review my least favourite Ramzan drama.

The madness in Saarim’s house continues. Tara is being the perfect bahu–advocating for Maala’s participation in the tournament, apparently loving the loud drama of this family, being the goody-two-shoes. I think she is trying too hard. I mean, she is too good to be true, and if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

And my headphone’s battery died, so I will review the rest tomorrow. Sorry, peeps.

Review

This was due from yesterday, and I still haven’t finished the last 1/3 of the episode, but I was reminded by a kind soul @ozkhan that I missed a few important one-liners from Chand Tara, so here goes my two cents.

The Perfect Bahu Syndrome

In a crowd scene (I call it crowd when almost all the characters are in one frame), Tara comments about the different places a beti and a bahu has. I agree with her, but this scene is also one of those moments when I feel–behen, you are trying too hard. Here’s my grouse with a character like Tara-She is perfect. I have written such a character once. Sabeen was too sorted, too perfect and after a point she started to get on my nerves. Tara is being an ideal bahu here since day#1. She always agrees with her elders, and always has the perfect answer which goes her in-laws go “awnnn, meri bachhi…” . Too perfect, don’t you think?

Division of Responsibilities

Also, there is a scene when Maala is readying to go for her tournament and reminds Saarim about Gulzar’s diet and medicine routine.

Saarim says, “Tara dekh legi.”

Maala says, “it’s our responsibility.”

I’m paraphrasing here, but you get the gist.

Now, that was a million dollar message that the writer had tried to give, but the scene was such a blink-and-miss that it didn’t register. I mean, I noticed it, but how many others did? The way Tara’s perfect bahu scenes are given screen time with dramatic pauses, this should have been treated the same so audience would sit up and take notice. But…

That’s only part of the problem.

Now, let’s get to the second part.

It’s not a bahu’s responsbililty to look after her in-laws. True that! Similarly, it’s not in-laws’ responsibility to look after the bahu, either. That’s the shar’ii rule. However, Shari’at also tells us that it’s the moral obligation and it has a lot of “sawab” if done with the right intention.

Maala is right, it should be Saarim’s job to look after his father, but it wouldn’t hurt if Tara did the same. Let’s not involve these characters, because this drama is not addressing the issue I have in mind. Bahu is also someone’s daughter. She must have been taking care of her parents. Why can’t she do the same here? Why do we raise this alarm that “yeh bahu ki zimmedari nahin hai?”   Saas sasur kyu bahu ki zimmedari utthate hain phir?

I know, it’s not the same in every household, but this bothers me a lot. A LOT.

I have a lot more to say on that topic, but I had started writing a novel to express the same. Sadly, the rate at which novel’s ideas come to my mind, and the rate at which I finish them, I guess I will get to this topic in 2029, zindagi rahi toh.

The Signature Style, Really?

Tara takes the ambulance for her personal causes whenever she pleases. Whether it is about picking up her boyfriend, or getting home to get ready for a function, or to get to her own wedding, ambulance is always to the rescue. I know, it is suppossed to be funny, haha, signature style.

SO.NOT.FUNNY.

Have you ever been part of a mile-long traffic jam and an ambulance around you? Do you know how much pain and confusion the drivers go through to make way for that ambulance? And now imagine that the ambulance is only taking a female doctor to meet her beau.

Is that still funny?

I don’t think so.

Rant over.

That’s my take on the latest episode of Chand Tara. How do others feel about this episode?

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Shabana Mukhtar