Tum Mere Paas Raho

I I've been watching this show as a loyal viewer since it began, as I love both Bushra Ansari and Zahid Ahmed.  But this show has one huge flaw - I don't understand the point.

The show initially showed an insecure Bushra Ansari, possessive of her son Taabish (Zahid), scared of abandonment and even a foreshadowing of psychological issues.  She instantly perceived his girlfriend Mariam to be conniving and ready to steal her son, so she had him enhaged to a girl of his choice, Zoya. 

Surprise! Taabish actually likes his fiancée! Some insecurity arises there. But shortly after, Taabish's biological mother is revealed - his "Chachi."  At this point, I thought "Wow, this show is going to be great!"

Wrong.  This show has literally spiraled into ten different, classless directions.  Taabish blames Zoya for his troubles (while she deserves a prize for dealing with psychos like him and his mother), so he's now attempting to start things up with Mariam again, who proves that completing a fellowship in the US doesn't mean she's smart - she's dumb as hell, refusing to get married because of Taabish, a man who mistreated her so badly. There's a lot of "ew" going on there.

But wait - it doesn't stop there. Taabish's biological brother is in love with Zoya and befriends her, telling her to confide in him in the hopes that she'll leave Taabish for him. Bring on even more "ew."

On the other end, "chachi" has been abandoned by her two sons (one back with Bushra Ansari, the other just plain nalaayak and essentially a druggie) and her daughter is now running the household. Nice throw-in of feminism. 

The problem is, I just don't understand the focus of this show. First it was inter-family adoption. Then it turned to affairs. Now I have no idea where it's headed. 

But the real issue with the show lies in that there aren't any characters you root for, barring Zoya - but she's about to get sucked into a skeezy trap with her brother in law too. Taabish is the "hero" and legitimately a terrible human being without any sense. His transformation from being a great, loving son to a horrible person was gradual enough, but one fails to understand what Mariam is still holding on to? This is not the same man she left behind. It makes Marian a horrible person too. Adnan (brother in law) is icky and honestly the worst kind of brother-son anyone could ask for. Bushra Ansari's character is a terror who is clearly mentally ill and unable to think of anyone but herself. 

It's a show full of bad people and you can't stop watching simply because you need to know if the director thinks they are normal people and deserve happy endings in the end or is this show written like this on purpose where these terrible people will have karma come and bite them in the behind? That's what I'm waiting to see!

Happy watching!