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My Dear Cinderella | Episode 1

Posted by Shabana Mukhtar on

Another 2025’s Ramzan Special Drama on Hum.

Writer:Hassan Imam
Director:Mohsin Talat
Producer:Momina Duraid Productions

[Source: Hum TV’s Official website]

My Dear Cinderella Episode 1 Short Recap and Even Shorter Review

Why am I reviewing this? Cuz I watched the first episode and I didn’t want that time to go waste. I will probably also list down the reasons to not watch this drama. I know I’m not going to.

What I feel about this drama, is evident in the previous post: My Dear Cinderella | Cast and Characters. I’ll formally recap and review the episode now.

The episode opens with a dream sequence where a dulha (more like qurbani ka bakra). There’s dhol and tamasha and in-your-face Pakhtoon family. Gul Zarreen brings the bride, dulha ghoonghat uthhata hai aur khwaab toot jata hai.

The scene switches to the city where Sana, the heroine with painted nails (to my inexperienced eyes) wakes up to Fajr alarm. She makes noise enough to wake up the whole mohalla. Apparently, she’s getting married that day. She wants to keep a record of all her life events, much like most of the youngsters these days. Her aunts (or chachi, tayi? I wasn’t paying much attention). Gul is in-your-face Pakhtoon, Bitto is stereotypical Punjabi (Allah knows how Juggan hammed through every scene).

Zain, her na-honey-wala-shauhar, doesn’t seem too thrilled about the whole shaadi business.

And the day of nikaah, Zain asks Sana to meet in the khopcha for something important.
The scene cuts to the next day. Zain comes to talk to Sana (abhi baat honi baqi hi hai?). Sana goes inside the house and comes back with mirchi powder wala pani in a bucket and throws it.
On the hero.
Zain is nowhere to be seen.
By the way, her passing shot was sooooooooooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooooooooooooong and sooooooooooooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Even on 2X, it felt like she’s crawling. Content kam ho toh aise hi elongate karna hota hai, as I did in this paragraph.

Review

Zara’s acting and dialogue delivery makes Khushi Kapoor look better. In the scene where she’s recording a video message, her lips were barely moving, like the early-days animation where characters spoke but there lips only opened-and-closed, did not move naturally. She has a pretty face, but she can’t act to save her life. She reminded me of another new face, was it Zulm? I abandoned that drama only because of the female lead. I couldn’t tolerate her. And now Zara.
Now, she joins the list of pretty-faces that I hate for no reason. They may or may not be talented; I may or may not like their acting.
  • Mahera Khan: Unpopular opinion, I can’t tolerate her face or her acting. She’s pretty, and I’m sure she acts well, but…
  • Sehar Khan: I skip many dramas because of her. I don’t know why seeing her makes me want to run away from my mobile screen.
  • Sehar Hashmi: She has the same expression, ALWAYS.
  • Zara Peerzada: I rest my case.

Needless to say, won’t be watching the next episode.

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Shabana Mukhtar

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