Meri Zindagi Hai Tu | Episode 1 | Written Update and Review

The inciting Incident

Ayra’s brother Nadir is driving older sister Falak home, asking her to keep engaging him in a conversation or else he might fall asleep. She’s sleepy and tired so she says: chal bhag. Not in those words, but you get the drift.

And he falls asleep.

They end up crashing into another car. Kamyar and Fariha step out, and Kamyar immediately slaps Nadir before storming off.  Flak takes Nadir to the hospital. Later, when Ayra reaches the hospital, she’s furious at Nadir: “Maara kyun nahin usko?”

Nadir was at fault, right? Sleeping while driving is probably more dangerous than drunk driving, I’d say? Thank goodness it’s addressed later in the episode as Irfan says just as much to Ayra, who’s finding fault with another guy and not her own brother.

Also — just how powerful is Kamyar supposed to be? One slap and Nadir fell to the ground. It reminded me of the Jasoosi Duniya novels where Faridi does that once and the goon collapses. Boy was I amazed. Kamyar udhar hi training karke aaya hai kya?

By the way, kya plastic ke dabbe jaise car hai Kamyar ki.

Like I said before, Nadir is the inciting incident of this story.

We All Have Our Reasons to be Awful

Then we cut to a club scene: loud music, dancing, flashing lights. Kamyar clearly has his eyes on another girl, which Fariha cannot tolerate. Despite all her attempts to grab his attention, Kamyar remains completely uninterested and continues dancing with the other girl. Furious, Fariha leaves.

The other girl acts like she’s won the lottery — but Kamyar bluntly tells her he’s not interested in seeing her again.

Fariha is clearly obsessed with Kamyar. Her father is spoiling her, because she has lost her mother, I guess that’s her reason for being such a pain for humanity?

Kamyar’s dadi is fully aware of what her family is up to — partying, drinking, fighting — yet she never hesitates to call them out. His parents are always arguing, so I suppose that is his tragic backstory and the reason he too is a menace to humanity.

I liked her line, though:

Tumhare Kal aur aaj aapas mein ulajh chuke hain.

Later, when Fariha comes to see Kamyar and complains about lack of attention on his part, he clearly tells Fariha that what happened between them was past and they are only friends in the present, if she’d let it be. So there was something between them.

The Revenge

Ayra is out with her friend Naveen and tells her about the slapping fiasco, showing her disappointment that Irfan didn’t file a complaint with the police. In the same area, Kamyar is out on a date with a girl who is fawning over him and he’s like:

Chal bhag, you’re so unoriginal.

Point to Kamyar on this, she was sounding clingy. Pretty though.

Kamyar gets a call from Sohail, he has to go to a board meeting but Ayra has ruined his limited edition ugly car with nailpaint and puncturea the tyre. It’s her words that hurt him the most, though. To rub salt to the wound, the girl he was eating lunch with, she comes and sits in her car. He smiles, looking hopeful and then she speeds away.

And yeh raha hamara hero, tapta hua 😀

At home, he’s upset and vents on his parents:

you don’t even realize that there’s a mistake.

Sahi hai bhai, dusro pe blame kar.

The New Car

Irfan buys a new Suzuki car for the daughters. Wow!

Tum teeno jao. Hum apni car mein aate hain.

The family goes out, has a nice time. Late at night, Beenish rushes and wakes up the girls: Irfan feeling unwell.

Why?

Because their new car is set on fire.

Unki car to white Suzuki thhi na chhoti si? Inni badi kali car kaise ho gayi?

First Impressions (Because it’s Episode 1)

There were some continuity issues but honestly, given our pledge to not overthink this one, let’s just say:

We wike it.

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Shabana Mukhtar