Ohkay so, I really think they need to move the story forward because it’s been stagnant for quite some while now & the reactions & the situations that they’re showing aren’t really helping in keeping the interest alive in the show.

Hareem is bent on convincing her mother to agree to her Nikkah with Fahad without his parent’s presence. Nighat was right in her own way that she wanted to meet his parents because that’s how normally the proposals are put forth & accepted but Hareem chose to ignore what she was saying as she thinks her mother doesn’t want her to marry Fahad. Hareem tried to seek help from Nadia & Ali but they also chose to side with Nighat & in all honesty, all three of them were making more sense than Hareem alone.

Hareem chose to blow things out of proportion which she is good at & called Fahad to her rescue. Fahad saw that things were slipping out of his hand, that’s why he requested Hareem to be a bit more understanding. Fahad knows that Hareem is not on talking terms with her Uncle, that is why he doesn’t want her to ruin her relations with her mother because Fahad can not afford that as later he will easily blackmail Hareem’s mother for his personal gain.

This episode marked the entry of a new character Asad, who happens to be Ali’s younger brother. To be honest, I am not that impressed with his character & I don’t think he will have much contribution in moving the story forward too. He happens to be that happy-go-lucky sort of a guy who got interested in Hareem the moment he saw her. I so wish to see them showing such guys who fall for girls after looking at their whole personality & not just the face because Hareem acted quite weirdly but Asad didn’t seem to notice it at all. I liked that Ali drew the line immediately & told Asad to not cross it as far as Hareem was concerned because he could see that Nadia was becoming uneasy.

I must say, I am disappointed in Nadia once again because as the episodes are passing by, she is turning out to be quite selfish & insecure when it comes to Hareem. Just because she saw that Asad was kind of getting frank with Hareem in particular, she made a mountain out of molehill & called her mother right away warning her & literally requesting her to get rid of Hareem because her marriage is in danger? Talk about worst case of exaggeration & blowing things out of proportion that too for no solid reason!!! All this while, all these ladies have blamed Hareem for everything she has done thinking she is transpiring something against them but actually these mean girls are more selfish & self-centered than Hareem. Hareem is blunt, bold & straight forward but she still has a clean heart as she easily forgives & forgets but her sisters are the ones who have harbored grudges against her & make sure to keep her at a distance. The way Nadia reacted was completely absurd & ridiculous because it was only showcasing how insecure she is of Hareem. I want to know if Asad had shown interest in Sadia, then would Nadia have reacted the same way? I am sure the answer is no. Just because it was Hareem & not Sadia, Nadia requested her mother to take care of Hareem & send her off with Fahad without even bothering about what will happen to Hareem because if there’s anyone who knows that everything about Fahad is fishy, it is Nadia & sadly, she chose to turn away from the reality because she doesn’t want any obstacles in her life.

I found it very mean & selfish of Nadia where she actually demanded her mother to side with her this time because Nadia thinks her mother has always treated Hareem as a priority which is nothing but a lie because if that would’ve been the case, Nighat would’ve handed either Nadia or Sadia to Shabbir & Zahida. Also, I wasn’t expecting anything positive from Nighat because just the moment she saw that Nadia was feeling anxious & restless, she chose to forget about her condition of meeting Fahad’s parents & chose to get rid of Hareem as if she was nothing more than a fish-bone stuck in her throat.

Overall, this episode was strictly ohkay & I really think they need to move the story forward now. They need to get Hareem & Fahad married so that the story changes & we get to see more because we’ve had enough of the scenarios where supposedly Hareem is putting her family through a tough time, which still doesn’t make me feel anything for them because they are actually being quite mean & rude to her. Also, I must say, the new trend of hair extensions is being exploited in our dramas because it looks like our actresses have untamed brittle hair & haven’t gone for trimming in years. Also, the hair extensions are so evident & weirdly visible, so I am not sure what the actresses are achieving by wearing them. Maryam Ansari (Nadia) really needs to work on her hair, makeup & styling in general because despite having a pretty face, she looks unpleasant & unpolished, also sorry to say but she is turning out to be a case of lip augmentation gone wrong. Sanam Chaudhry has carried herself really really well, from her proper curls to perfect makeup, she looks more sheher wali as compared to the actual & supposed sheher walis like Nadia & Sadia. Anyways, share your thoughts about this episode of Tere Mere Beech please.

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Zahra Mirza.

Ohkay so, this episode mainly covered the aftermath of Ali & Aabro’s selfishness, but I have to say, all the emotions were portrayed perfectly & realistically. They showed what the families go through when a girl & a guy take a decision of setting their desires as their priorities & when they completely ignore the responsibility they have towards their family members.

Even though Ali seemed a bit skeptical but just because he saw how his mother was being inconsiderate towards his wishes, he chose to go by his heart & didn’t put his mind through the gravity of the situation. Ali actually loves Aabro unconditionally, that is why going by her suggestion, he took such a huge step in a spur of a moment. Ali actually doesn’t understand what is right & wrong & it is surprising that at such an age, he is so immature to not being able to see that his mother only wanted what is best for him. Having said that, I so am not implying that Fauzia was the best choice for him but after the impression Aabro left on Zubaida, she was right in showing reservations about Aabro because she could see that Aabro wasn’t an ideal life partner for her son, Ali.

Unlike Ali, Aabro didn’t even bat an eyelid before ripping her mother off & shredding her reputation into pieces. Aabro effortlessly took the money & jewelry & left the house leaving a note behind that showed her family meant nothing to her. Even though for now, Aabro loves Ali & she is being quite selfless when it comes to him, but she is forgetting that she is the one who couldn’t love her own family & didn’t have an emotional affiliation with her own mother, so only because of this trait she is going to face a lot of hardships because at one point of time, she will grow indifferent to Ali too as she won’t be able to put up an act in front of him for a very long time. If Aabro decides to work on herself in order to improve herself, then she has a chance with Ali but if she keeps this up, she will drive Ali away from herself in a very short span of time.

Both the mothers of Ali & Aabro made me feel for them because they perfectly portrayed what the mothers go through when their children decide to punish them like that. What Ali did was completely wrong but if we consider how Zubaida was being rigid, it showed that she called this on herself but when it comes to Sakina, Aabro had no right to put her mother through this because Sakina always trusted Aabro & went out of the way for shaping Aabro’s life without putting much restrictions on her but Aabro chose to reciprocate the favors of her mothers in the worst way possible.

I didn’t quite understand why Aabro & Ali chose to go for a court marriage in stead of a simple Nikkah in the Masjid. That would’ve validated their relationship even more easily & convincingly. The problems the both faced were just a prelude of what is yet to come in their lives & they both seemed totally clueless & directionless. Aabro is depending on Ali more than he understands & going by how Ali hadn’t done any pre-planning went to show that his immaturity & lack of thinking will cause them both a lot of problems as they both are still not aware of the intricacies of the life they have chosen for themselves & don’t quite seem ready to face the brunt. It came as a shock that Ali was depending on Aabro for the financial help whereas he has been working for quite some while now, so it would’ve been better if they had showed that he had some savings on him too.

Hamid is facing a hard time because of Aabro too & so is Zafar because the word has spread that both Ali & Aabro are missing. I think may be Ali’s parents will try to accept both Ali & Aabro in order to save their whole family from the shame & that’s when the real ordeal will begin because Aabro will give Ali & Zubaida a tough time.

The preview seemed interesting because looks like Ali & Aabro’s happiness will end up being short-lived because it will begin to dawn on them that they both are very different people with different temperaments & they both will have to compromise a lot in order to make their marriage work, which they both don’t look ready for. The families will end up staying involved too & looks like Fauzia will put up a great show which I so am not looking forward too. She is an enough disappointment already & I really am in no mood to see her crying over a guy who doesn’t even care a dime for her!!! Please share your thoughts about this episode of Aabro.

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Cheers,
Zahra Mirza.

Ohkay so, looks like the time has come where we’d have to bid farewell to all those amazing characters that we were introduced to. I think the writer is leaving no stone unturned to make us detest those characters that we once used to love & those characters that were a strength of this drama. I must say, the sudden shift in the personalities & thinking of these once-normal characters is marking the downhill of Mana Ka Gharana!!!

Mana got to shop to her heart’s greed when she was with Shehryaar & he didn’t miss a chance to feed her time & again that he spent a lot of money on her. Gul Bahar is like a negative broken record who is only there to say things that are totally unnecessary & over the top repeatedly. I must say, I found it ridiculous that even the engagement was happening on Shehryaar’s terms & conditions. I didn’t see an official proposal being ever made to the whole family, he just came, liked Mana, called her, shopped with her & next thing we know, they’re getting engaged.

Khizer did everything to make Mana & the whole Gharana happy while keeping his feelings for Mana aside but sadly, no one saw that. The whole issue that happened between Happy, Shehryaar & Khizer was convincing in a way that it showed how short-tempered & arrogant Shehryaar is, but the discussions, conversations & the conclusions that followed that event were disasterous & made no sense whatsoever!

Why is it that we never saw anyone from the family questioning Shehryaar’s mindset. Why is it that none of them had the guts to blame Shehryaar for the wrong he did. After Shehryaar & Gul Bahar left & everyone was sitting for the sake of conversation, I thought we’d get to see how everyone was disappointed with Shehryaar’s behavior but Saleha turned everything against Khizer & blamed him for putting Shehryaar down. I would’ve agreed to it if Khizer had raised his voice or if he had misbehaved with Shehryaar too but going by what we saw, Khizer only requested him to make truce with Happy but everyone blamed Khizer for the things he didn’t even say or do.

I am actually shocked to see how illogical & irrational Saleha has become. All the things she said about Happy & his social standing were disgusting. Just because her daughter has bagged a rich psycho, she now thinks she’s in a position to look down on everyone, which is ridiculous. I am actually so disappointed at the writer that where she showed us amazing characters that were unique & different, now the same characters are becoming so weird & annoying that it is getting intolerable. I so wish at least one of them had told her that Shehryaar was at fault & not Khizer. Maalik did say but he didn’t say it convincingly or authoritatively, which showed that a part of him also believed that Khizer was wrong.

Honestly speaking, I know this will sound harsh or rude but I so wish that apart from rolling eyes & wheelchair, Ghalib uncle says something. He goes like Saleha is being jazbati because of Mana, but I guess he was mistaken & used the wrong word because Saleha wasn’t being emotional, she was purely being greedy. I so wish that after whatever has happened, at least Ghalib was shown to be doing some thinking & being a bit skeptical in regards to Shehryaar & Mana’s engagement because if a guy can get so snappy at such a small incident, wonder what he’s going to do with Mana if she infuriates him ever. So, not being able to see any sort of reaction from Ghalib uncle being a father, was another disappointment that came along as well!

Gul Bahar is just using Shehryaar to get back at Maalik & she is not ashamed to admit it. I think even Shehryaar is stupid to be following her lead because the one who couldn’t do well in her marriage won’t let Shehryaar have a happy life too because she has already started to spew venom & has started to turn him against Mana & her family & Shehryaar is allowing her to to interfere more & more in his life. I find it funny that now when Maalik has blamed Gul Bahar, Saleha is turning out to be her lawyer & defending her in front of everyone, whereas if I’m not mistaken, Saleha disliked Gul Bahar because she put Maalik through so much suffering, so why is it so hard for Saleha to put two & two together & think that when Gul Bahar can show so much of ignorance in regards to her husband, she won’t be their well-wisher at all.

Also, I am disappointed in seeing Mana & the greed in her. Just because she shopped with him for a while, she has come to a conclusion that she can not live without him & he’s the only guy who can make her happy. I loved the things Khizer said to Mana but I am not too sure what is it in Mana that’s giving her so much confidence in her intuition about Shehryaar. Mana has never stepped out of the town before in her life & she has never ever interacted with anyone outside of her family before, so how can she be so sure of Shehryaar? What makes her think that he loves her & he’s the one for her?

I must say, even though I’m still following this drama but I am so disappointed in the writer because she has ruined all those unique characters that we loved & liked to watch. This drama was different because the things that these characters said made sense & they seemed very real, but now they all are turning out to be very superficial & hideous. Also, I am not too sure why Maalik is taking so much time in finalizing his divorce to Gul Bahar. He should get over with it ASAP so that Gul Bahar gets a message loud & clear that her chance of getting back with Maalik is numbered! Please share your thoughts about this episode of Mana Ka Gharana.

Keep Supporting,
Cheers,
Zahra Mirza.

PS: Please keep the Shuhada of Charsadda & their families in your prayers.

Ohkay so, production of Momina Duraid, writing of Qaisra Hayat & direction of Ilyas Kashmiri; Aabro is airing at 8PM on HUM TV on Sundays from the last 5 weeks. The screenplay of Aabro is written by Umera Ahmed, which is something that has attracted a lot of viewership to this drama. Overall, Aabro isn’t a must watch but has been executed properly without much loopholes, therefore it can be followed without expecting too much from it in terms of entertainment or story.

The story of Aabro revolves around 3 families that are interlinked. First comes the family of Zubaida (Farah Shah) & Anwar who have 4 childern. Ali (Noor Hassan) & Abid (Ahmed Zeb) are their sons along with two daughters, out of which Samra is engaged to be married. Then comes the family of Zubaida’s sister Shahida (Humera Bano) & Jamshed who have two daughters, out of which Fauzia (Zainab Ahmed) is the center of attention. Then last but not the least, comes the family of Sakina (Asma Abbas); a widow & a mother of Hamid (Imran Ashraf) & Aabro (Mehreen Fayyaz).

The story begins by showing that Ali & Aabro are interested in each other & are going out. They both are very much in love & plan to get married. Ali’s mother Zubaida is a very family oriented woman who believes that she has a control over her children. She wants what’s best for them & that is why she believes her sister’s daughter Fauzia is a perfect choice for her son Ali. Ali belongs to a middle class family & Zubaida believes in morals & values, that is why she believes that Fauzia fits the bill of her ideal daughter-in-law as she knows that her sister Shahida has raised Fauzia with the same mind-set that Zubaida endorses herself.

Sakina works as an janitor in the college & works as a maid at the house of the principal of the same college. Sakina has given up on her son Hamid because she knows that he was never interested in educating himself. She puts faith in Aabro because she thinks Aabro would be the one who can turn the tables for the entire family. On personal request of Sakina, her Madam (Ismat Zaidi) gives admission to Aabro in the college because she feels for Sakina & knows that despite being a single mother, she works really hard to provide for her children.

Aabro asks Ali to introduce her to his family but Ali can’t really find the right time to do that & just when he is thinking of talking to his mother about Aabro, Zubaida finalizes Ali’s engagement with Fauzia. Even though Ali tells his mother time & again that he doesn’t want to get married to Fauzia, she doesn’t pay heed to what her son says as she is too keen on saving her word & reputation in front of her sister. Surprisingly, it is Ali’s father who feels that Ali isn’t happy with the situation but Zubaida assures him that he is mistaken because whatever she did happened after knowing Ali’s opinion on that matter.

Aabro finds out about Ali’s engagement with Fauzia & that’s when she decides to step in. She speaks to Fauzia directly & tells her that Aabro & Ali got married, therefore she should call her engagement off. Things get heated & that’s when Fauzia’s parents take a stand that they would never allow Fauzia to get married to Ali. On Ali’s request, Zubaida goes to meet Aabro just to find out that she is completely opposite to Fauzia, making her even firm on the decision that she’d never allow Ali to get married to such a girl who has been raised like that. Now the things are going to get pretty ugly because Aabro has decided to elope with Ali & looks like Ali has agreed too because he knows that nothing that he’d say will convince his mother. So let’s see what more do they have in store for us.

First 5 episodes introduced all the characters properly & I think the writer has done a good job in bringing out the personalities of all the characters in detail. I think it is appreciable that just when the drama is in the initial stages, all the characters have gotten enough coverage so that the audience can understand them better. Even though the drama has ‘been there, seen that’ written all over it but it still provides satisfactory content to tune in on the weekends.

Even though there’s nothing appreciable about Aabro but I think she is better in a sense that she is not after Ali’s money or didn’t fall for him after finding out that his family is doing well financially. She just fell in love with him for who he is & yes, she is someone who wants everything in life but still she has never once considered that she can mooch off her future husband Ali. There’s a fine line between being in love for genuine reasons or to pose you’re in love just because you’re a gold digger but Aabro isn’t that & she actually really loves Ali & yes, all the things she expects from him are the things any girl expects from her future husband. Aabro has never once thought of changing herself because she thinks Ali has accepted her the way she is & this is something that’s a huge mistake on her part because no matter how much Ali loves her now, after marriage, her nature is the main thing that will prove to be the reason behind them drifting apart. Aabro is immature, impatient & inconsiderate & it is actually quite surprising that Ali can’t see that. Ali happens to belong to a good family but even he has allowed himself to get swayed by a girl like Aabro, that is why he doesn’t see any faults in her & is creating a havoc in his home for her sake. Aabro surely has Ali wrapped around her little finger but then she is not solely responsible for it because Ali has given her that much of an edge to be able to do that.

Honestly speaking, in the initial episodes, I liked Ali’s mother & thought she was justified for thinking that as a mother she can take important decisions on behalf of her children but the way she ignored Ali’s pleas even after hearing from him clearly that he doesn’t want to get married to Fauzia & the way she tried to impose her decisions on him made her look very unreasonable & irrational. I am glad that at least the husband in their couple is wise enough to think that Ali is entitled to choose his life partner & that he won’t be able to make Fauzia happy if he himself won’t be happy with his marriage but Zubaida resorted to lying just in order to save herself & add more weight to her decision. I thought Zubaida was a wise woman as well like her husband but I don’t think that’s the case anymore because if she would’ve been wise, she would’ve been able to foresee the mess that now her & her sister’s family is facing, which is just a result of her lies & a result of her turning away from the reality.

Also, I am not at all a fan of Fauzia’s character. Why do the writers always show that behind every sulking lifeless girl, there’s a guy she is dying to get married to. Why do they think it is justified to show that no matter how the girl gets rejected point black by a guy, she still would want to get married to him. Ali happens to be Fauzia’s one & only love, her first love of the life (if she has one) & she is ready to do everything to be with him. Even after personally getting a call by both Ali & Aabro & also after getting a final verdict from her parents especially her father, Fauzia is taking a so-called stand that she still wants to get married to Ali & will never call off her engagement. Like seriously, Fauzia actually made me feel disgusted by her display of lack of dignity & self-respect. Just when I was expecting that Fauzia would be the one calling Ali & giving him a piece of her mind, she was mad at her parents for breaking her engagement with Ali, which actually left me in a state of shock. Why do the writers feel that they need to show that a girl who supposedly is strong-headed will take a wrong decision that too for the sake of a guy who is least interested in her. I so wish Fauzia stops being so ridiculous that too for the sake of her one-sided love because she is turning out to be a mentally weak person! Also I believe Shahida’s meltdown was absurd too. Just when Shahida saw that her daughter Fauzia wasn’t taking the news of her broken engagement well, she decided to side with her & accept her decision of getting married to Ali while completely being ohkay with the fact that he was already married. Even though Ali’s not married but right now no one in her family is familiar with the reality so to see Shahida being perfectly fine with the fact that Fauzia will become Ali’s second wife made me cringe (a lot)!!!

Overall, the direction & the acting of all the actors has been good but I feel Mehreen Fayyaz should tone it down a couple of notches, whether it’s her dialogue delivery, her expressions, her gaze or even her makeup. She does fit well in the frame of Aabro’s character but she is over-doing it a bit. She has a long way to go in terms of acting & I hope she improves because for now, her eyes look completely bland & expressionless. I now think Noor Hassan should change his look, if not anything, at least his hairstyle because he happens to appear in one drama after another but isn’t experimenting with his looks at all. He has a same hairstyle if we look back starting from Firaaq to Muqaddas to Tumhare Siwa & now Aabro, I hope he’s not trying to become another Ahsan Khan in terms of monotonous styling. I must say the only actor who has actually forced us to feel for the character she is playing is Asma Abbas. She is phenomenal as Sakina & you actually understand what she is going through & how hurt she is but is still putting up tough facade to face the world. She doesn’t believe in crying over how diffcult her life is, she believes in moving her muscle to fight it out, which I feel is commendable & is refreshing to see. Farah Shah has acted brilliantly too & I loved her acting in the 5th episode in particular where she is mad at her son & can’t explain how helpless she’s feeling. The rest of the characters are very typical & have nothing new to offer but are being portrayed well by the actors. Sadly, these sort of stories have been aired so many times that we can’t help reading between the typicality they offer but I really hope it turns out to be a bit different in the episodes to come & ends at a good note with some very strong underlying message. Umera Ahmed’s name is something that is forcing me to have some hopes with this drama. Please share your thoughts about the first 5 episodes of Aabro, would love to hear you guys out & also let me know if you guys would like to see the weekly reviews of Aabro. :)

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Cheers,
Zahra Mirza.

Ohkay so, this episode of Tere Mere Beech was happening but not engaging because the story hasn’t moved forward at all from the last couple of episodes. Seems like they will be introducing a new character & the twist in the plot will happen then, which I hope is enough to keep the drama engaging for quite a long time!

Zubaida got quite a lot of coverage which wasn’t required because that thing didn’t really affect or add more to the developments of the story, in fact it looked more like a filler scenario as it didn’t change anything at all & there was no outcome of that situation that was shown. Zubaida felt she was insulted & she chose to draw her lines by not attending the reception & also by leaving for her village without notifying Nighat. Zubaida was upset quite a lot but Salma & Hareem added more fuel to the fire. Seems like Zubaida couldn’t do much herself that is why she passed it onto Hareem to insult Ali’s family on her behalf. I don’t understand, being Hareem’s mother & guardian herself, how can she not foresee the consequences Nadia would have to face if anything of such sort happens!

Nadia is trying to adjust to the new environment & Ali’s mother isn’t making things difficult for her. She has only made her point clear time & again that she wants to keep a low profile & doesn’t want to mingle with Nadia’s family. It was good to see Nadia & Ali having a conversation apart from the typical problems that they were facing ever since they got married. I liked how they both talked to each other about their childhood & the things they wanted the most. Nadia & Ali are both very different people but somehow they are compatible with each other as well.

The new character that made an entry today was of Asad, who happens to be Ali’s younger brother. Looks like he will have a lot to offer too & he will also have an affect on Nadia & Ali’s lives as well. So far he looked like a happy-go-lucky sort of a person but as the preview suggested, he’s going to be a bit different than he seems.

Fahad continues to fool Hareem because he has found an easy target. Fahad only wants Hareem’s property because he thinks he will get a kick-start after getting married to Hareem that he was waiting for all his life. Hareem questions him every now & then regarding the things she is curious of & also, the things that she finds a little odd, but even though Fahad manages to convince her, it is her equation with Nighat that makes Hareem forget everything that bothers her about Fahad & she then becomes a bit more persistent on the fact that she only wants to get married to Fahad. She thinks he is the only reliable person that she can fall on but that’s her mistake & no one can stop her from doing that to herself!

Overall, this episode was ohkay but the preview seemed interesting. Looks like Asad will show interest in Hareem & it will cause trouble for both Nadia & Ali. Please share your thoughts about tonight’s episode of Tere Mere Beech!

Keep Supporting,
Cheers,
Zahra Mirza.