Briefly, let's talk about three shows that ended this week. Briefly, because two of them were just downright awful and the other had a weak last episode.
Bheegi Palkein, a terrible, awful show that could have redeemed itself had it not done exactly as I predicted - the show was so hell bent on showing a loser character like Hassan as a hero that they defied all logic and the fact that Hassan deserved the karma that he got with Fari. Why? Because Faisal Qureshi HAS to be the "hero"! Let's completely forget that Dr Raza was the better man and brought out Bano's real personality, helping her become strong and confident. No, let's illogically wake up his wife from a coma of God-knows-how-many-years just to stick it to Bano and push her into Hassan's waiting "hero" arms. That's crap and I have not wanted to punch a character this much in a long time. Bye Hassan & Bano. Bye Bheegi Palkein. Thanks for a suck fest and thanks writers for constantly showing Pakistani women as weak creatures that have to rely on terrible, untrusting men instead of getting happy endings and new starts - or, at the least, slapping these untrusting men, getting a job and living a life of self respect? No? That's too hard? Ok then, keep making crap shows.
Moving on:
Tere Mere Beech
Here's the problem. This show started off as a really interesting show. However, as the show progressed, Hareem became the worst, most annoying, selfish and downright stupidest character. But why only Hareem? Sadia, Nadia, biological Amma, adoptive Amma, Hina Biyat's unnecessarily helpful character.....all ridiculous.
In fact, in a strange twist of fate, the last episode is what redeemed the show for me slightly. I was overcome with irritation at the idea of Hareem ending up with her good for nothing husband - but surprise! His appeal to Hareem actually melted my heart and made for decent story. Ali Agha Khan's performance in this episode was really good. It was nice to see Hareem & Fahad honestly sort out their differences. But it was still hard to digest, considering Fahad tried to kill her.....but I'd long since given up trying to find sense in this show. I expected this ending, so at least it was shot in a way that was able to make an emotional impact.
As for the rest, what Noor Hassan was doing wasting his life in this drama with no role to speak of, I will never understand. Anyway, that's all. This show wasn't really good, but still had enough appeal to suck you in week after week.
And moving on again.....
Sehra Mein Safar
Why a beautiful show like this needed such a bizarre, boring final episode, I will never understand. Couldn't we have just heard Ayaz confessing to Mamoon about how much he appreciates Iqra WITHOUT all the time wastage on Mamoon's disrespecting his fiancée? I really didn't care to see any of that, especially with the unrealistic way the problem was resolved. Men like Mamoon do not change their attitudes in 10 minutes simply because their mom has a heart to heart with them. In fact, his mother is the reason he held that viewpoint to begin with - which is odd, because he was such a enabling child, always wanting nice things, which his mother provided, so that personality trait in him was pretty unrealistic.
Anyway, this was a great show and I wish the episode had just focused on Ayaz and Iqra instead of their good for nothing son. Also, I really needed Emad Irfani's Sheharyar to get one final "screw you," but he just disappeared entirely.
I wish Pakistani dramas would all strive to create shows like this - simple, but with strong storylines and a good message!
Alright, that's all for now - until next time, happy watching!
You know, Q, in spite of your warnings, I had hoped that the makers would realize the error of their original premise and the promise of those later episodes, and bring Bano and Dr. Raza together. But, like you said, they were too caught up in trying to keep FQ the "hero" no matter how unbecoming his character had become. At least they let Bano look sad and forlorn on being with Hassan in the last shot. And did you notice one of the behind-the-scenes crew member in the last shot? That was hilarious and seemed to reflect what I've long suspected: the makers/writers had given up on the show and couldn't be bothered to even edit out the crew member from the last shot. But the show at least made me realize that even a good actor cannot salvage a badly written part or show, so FQ should re-consider his choices. And the actor playing Dr. Raza was actually pretty good, and Bano was pretty good too-esp. towards the final episodes when she had to go beyond crying. Thanks for the post!
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