Okay so the family has come to their gaon, a huge ancestral haveli that they plan to give to an NGO for a school.

Some philosphy, some showing around, some painful memories…

One question my sister has asked me ever since we started watching Pakistani dramas is: Pakistan mein jagah bahot hai kya? I mean, jo bahot ghareeb hota hai us ka bhi sehn itna bada hota hai ki ghar ban jayein toh kayi families reh sakein.

A flashback shows Abu bakar’s phupho pushing him in the well.

Kabhi kabhar zehr maarta nahin hai, Zaryab, Zinda rehne deta hai. Magar woh zindagi zyada mushkil ho jati hai.

So, previously, I felt (I think all viewers had the same feeling) that Abu Bakar and Khushbakht’s patience is next-level, right? It always made me think: aisa kabhi hota hai kya? This episode humanizes them a little. Khushbakht doesn’t forgive her nand, the woman who gave her pain in the past, turns around and walks away. She’s still willing to help financially but doesn’t find it in herself to forgive. Now, this is what I’m talking about. This is what real people do. Meet them, help them, but find it difficult to say salaam to them because they have wounded you so bad.

Umera Ahmed has reached into some real dark places for this drama. The flashback of well was… well, very dark. Shehryar Munawwar has acted brilliantly when he recalls his childhood accident.

Hamna complains to Zamil and Zamil talks like a stereotypical Muslim man who remembers, no…rattofies all his haqooq that he demands from his wife and refuse to give a single haq back. Har ek ka apni marzi ka do mutthi Islam.

When I used to watch a lot of lectured (have stopped for reasons I’d like to keep to myself), most young men asked the same questions:

1. questions that relieve them of all responsibilities towards their wives and gives them all the “rights”: husband sab kar sakta hai, wife kuch nahin kar sakti hai

2. questions that relieve the(ir) wives of all responsibilities towards their parents : saas sasur ki zimmedari bahu pe nahin hoti hai, bas shauhar ki zimmedari hai, BASSSSS.

Zamil is THAT guy.

Okay, so I may have digressed and pushed myself into a hyperventilation attack. A fast-paced episode that left more to be desired: no, I’m not talking about near-kiss moment, I’m talking about the phupho-Abu Bakar scene. I need to know more.

But I guess tomorrow? This drama has 22 episodes and we know very little of Khushbakht’s life, so I guess we will have 40+ episodes? What do y’all think?