This drama is such a game-changer and the ending is, how to explain it, too unexpected and out of the box. Let’s get to a bit of flashback and talk about this masterpiece as I am not going to spoil the ending because, People! You should watch it. A horror genre always involves flying objects with scary looking churails who have blood dripping from their mouths even without sucking it off anyone’s neck. But Dil Nawaz is such a beautiful script, it had emotions and suspense beautifully interwoven with the supernatural. Yes, it had some dramatic things but we know, its fiction and the good thing is most of the stuff was very close to the experiences we see people narrating who are affected by the supernatural stuff. A huge round of applause for writer Nabeel Syed. It is a beautiful love story and the characters he has written should be included among this year’s best. He totally expressed the original face of a living creature. You are never black or white, you are always grey. From Dil Nawaz to Alam Ara, you can never truly hate a character because they had reasons, even for the bad things they were doing. And here you have to love Najaf Bilgrami’s direction. He made the viewers connect to each character. The way he made the story progress with every episode showing the story progressing and not reasonlessly dragging the situation, he translated the story beautifully on screen. He showed everyone that you can do it 26 episodes and it will still look good.

Since you all know about the situation of our award shows, it is highly unlikely but I think Neelam Muneer should be given a nomination for this performance. She just nailed it. At some point in the drama, even I fell in love with her character. She was graceful in all her scenes, not over-doing anything and she showed how an actress should show with her work that why the drama is named after her character. The other performances which stood out are of Zainab Qayyum and Nida Mumtaz. Both the ladies did justice to their roles. Nida was a very over-protective and obsessive mother while Alam Ara played by Zainab was done in an excellent way. She was evil, you hated her one second and the other you were okay with it. Wahaj Ali also tried to get a hundred percent hang of Fawad. He was a bit sloppy at some points but mostly was very good in all the scenes especially the ones where he is under Dil Nawaz’s spell.

With watching a lot of dramas, I mostly like most of the viewers know how a series is going to end. Believe it or not, I even guessed that Afzal would die in Pyare Afzal lol. I was expecting a happy reunion today with maybe Dil Nawaz realizing she is not fit with Fawad but the writer got me. Dil Nawaz has also inspired many others to start making horror genre series. Yes, it promoted a bit of dhaga and darbar culture but they didn’t overdo it.

Have you guys watched the last episode of Dil Nawaz? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it and please mention is it just me or the theme music and OST grows on you?

This show is simply entertaining and the major cause for that is its different and intriguing storyline. A lot of despair was surrounding Dil Nawaz and Fawad’s relationship after she was imprisoned by Alam Ara but the tables turned as nature struck and Alam Ara is no more. Alam Ara was finally confronted for her actions by her sister and that along with her deteriorating health took a toll on her and she finally was no more. After Alam Ara’s demise, Dil Nawaz is now free and with Jahan Ara having no intentions to enslave her, she can do whatever she wants.

The Baba Jee mystery was also solved and the man who helps Kiran is none other than Alam Ara and Jahan Ara’s father. But is it his soul or is he a creature from another realm? These questions still stand in place. Jahan Ara is all alone now and since Tauseef is helping her, she would most probably end up with him. A black cord given by Baba Jee to Kiran helped Fawad to come to his senses and realize what is happening around him. He is a Devdas now and suddenly from I can even die for Dil Nawaz, he went to Go die Dil Nawaz. The other mystery which was solved today made me hate Fawad’s character. He married Dil Nawaz on his own will. Dil Nawaz made it clear that she was not controlling him on that and wanted him to love her with his whole heart. And still, he proved to be an extremely bad choice for her as well as for Kiran because he has deceived both of them.

Kiran’s fiance was a good man as was looking like from the start and when Rasheeda told him about Fawad and Kiran’s relationship, he cleared her way by taking the whole blame on himself. Yes, Rasheeda became a manipulator again and also won at it. And they are still making him look bad. At least Kiran should have cleared everything in front of her mom. This show has really gone to a top level of excitement with everyone getting proper screen time and the story is directed beautifully.

Fawad’s U-turn is not looking very acceptable and Wahaj was not his best in all scenes but Neelam once again was at the top of her game. She expressed Dil Nawaz’s desperation with complete accuracy and her jealousy with Kiran was also a thing to watch otherwise such scenes are always annoying but Neelam made them entertaining. Another character who is getting the edge of all swords is Kiran’s mother and Kiran is not a farmanbardar bacchi after all.

Looking forward to the next episode as the preview shows that Fawad’s father will finally have a clue about what is going on in his son’s life!

Producer: Aijaz Aslam

Director: Najaf Bilgrami

Writer: Nabeel Syed

Cast: Neelum Muneer, Minal Khan, Wahaj Ali, Waseem Abbas, Zainab Qayyum and Nida Mumtaz among others.

When the promos and pictures started surfacing for Dil Nawaz, honestly my first instinct was that it will be a stupid try at horror genre with people screaming and objects floating in every second episode. But Dil Nawaz literally came out as a pleasant surprise for me. When the first episode came out, it was a clichéd start, with Aijaz Aslam and his family shifting in a haunted house and then leaving it due to supernatural stuff. The start may be clichéd but the drama as a whole is a great package, it shows the evils and manipulations prevailing in our society. Eight episodes are down up till now and let’s break how everything went on:

Characters and Storyline:

The writer has hands down done a great job. All the characters are developed with accuracy and that takes the story forward. Alam Ara (Zainab Qayyum) and Jahan Ara are two sisters who have mastery with magic and control over supernatural beings. They inherited the knowledge from their father but Alam Ara has become super greedy and manipulates and harm people who come to her. Hazrat Bibi aka Alam Ara has cut off all ties with the normal world due to her devious deeds and with the recent developments, looks like she is the one who has forced to do Jahan Ara the same.

Next, comes the two lovebirds Fawad(Wahaj Ali) and Kiran(Minal Khan)who are neighbours and want to marry each other. Fawad is a young doctor and his character is probably one of the very strong male lead characters of recent times. He stood for the right and protected the character of the girl he loved even if he had to go against his mother. Kiran, on the other hand, is a great daughter. She loves Fawad but she is not “Mai tumhare liye sabb ko chorr doongi” type. She has self-respect and she loved and respected her mother to the extent that she left Fawad to protect her mother’s honour.

Fawad’s parents are Waseem Abbas and Nida Mumtaz. His father is chill like a glacier and his mother is heated like a volcano. She is not only possessive but pure evil too. She can go to any extent just to get the results she wants. Her objective in life is to get her son married to her sister’s daughter kyunki unki industries hain. Kiran’s mother, on the other hand, is a single parent who has worked hard all her life and supported her daughter when she chose Fawad as her life partner. Her character is very positive and a treat to watch.

And yes the main and titular character, Dil Nawaz. Dil Nawaz is a supernatural entity. She is under Alam Ara’s thumb and has to do everything to please her. Her character is not black and white but grey. She harms people on Alam Ara’s orders but regrets it too. She didn’t even want to manipulate Fawad and Kiran’slove because she saw they were serious about each other. Fawad is the first person she has let stay in her house and she will fall for him hard.

The story has now become a love triangle because Dil Nawaz has fallen for Fawad. On the other hand, Kiran will seek Fawad because there is a person warning her to help him. We will have to wait to watch the next developments in the story now.

Performances:

Wahaj Ali has performed exceptionally from the start. From a love-struck doctor to a person who stands for right, he portrayed every emotion flawlessly. Minal Khan is good in her role too, her scenes with her mother are the best ones. Her performance was a bit weak in the scene where Fawad comes to talk to her at her engagement. It could have been more emotive. Zainab Qayyum and Nida Mumtaz are the best performers until now. The way Zainab is portraying the character of greedy and hungry for power Alam Ara is exceptional and Nida Mumtaz looks like a true obsessive mother who just wants her child to do what she wants him to do and see what she wants him to see. Neelum Muneer is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful supernatural entity in the history of the horror genre. Her dialogue delivery is lacking but her expressions and those orange death stares make up for it.

Direction:

The direction of this play has been a plus point for it up till now. The story is moving forward smoothly and there are mostly no useless scenes inserted just to prolong the drama. And thank God, there are no floating sheets and broken vases after every scene since they are the only two things which happen in our supernatural genre. The overall look and feel of the play are exciting and for that credit goes to the director.

OST: 

A fitting OST and Alycia Dias’s voice actually makes it sound magical and supernatural. Yes, it is different from the typical OSTs but the drama too is. The theme music when plays in the background gives a feel to the overall story. Here is it if you want to listen to it:

So eight episodes down and I am unexpectedly loving Dil Nawaz. I hope they don’t start dragging it reasonlessly which is a plague that hits all the dramas I start liking. But since the news is that Dil Nawaz will have about 25 episodes, I am a bit relieved. This is a treat to watch, a successful experiment and I will look forward to the next episode.

Have you watched Dil Nawaz? Share your thoughts in comments!

First of all, I will start by saying that this play is aesthetically pleasing. The picture quality is supremely nice which makes the viewer even more hooked to the show. Secondly, the pace of this drama is awesome. None of the episodes aired yet was a drag; each of them contributed to the story and today’s episode was no different. Today’s episode focused on obsessions; some old and some new.

Dil Nawaz has fallen in love with Fawad and her love has become a kind of obsession for her. She has lost her focus from all the projects Alam Ara assigns her and is always lingering around Fawad, trying to make him fall for her too. Fawad has also fallen in an obsession of Dil Nawaz. He is finally under her control and his thoughts have left the point of rationality. Even watching Kiran didn’t help him. All he wants is Dil Nawaz to an extent that he is not even noticing her odd behaviour. Fawad’s parents are in the new house and his mom is noticing that there is something extremely wrong with her son. Her character reminds me of Nadir’s mother from Ho Mann Jahan though Fawad’s mother is a bit more obsessive. She never accepts her faults and keeps taking risks and doing wrong. Actually, she is the one who put her only child in danger. But in place of accepting that and trying to find a rational solution, she went and confronted Alam Ara.

Alam Ara’s character is spectacularly played by Zainab Qayyum. She has beautifully shown the character’s obsession with power. She cannot hold anything in herself and will destroy Fawad just to get even with his mother. She has granted permission to Dil Nawaz to go and fool Fawad though she does not know that this is not just another assignment for Dil Nawaz. Her sister Jahan Ara’s love interest Tauseef also showed up in the episode and said some deep words. We will have to wait to see how that track goes on.

Kiran’s engagement, for now, is the most boring track in the show because we already know that it will not last. Her fiance directly questioned her mother too about her lack of interest but seems like the engagement fiasco will go on for few more episodes. Neelam Muneer and Zainab Qayyum were the stars of the show tonight as they catered beautifully to their characters and a big thumbs up to Neelam’s stylist because she is the prettiest Muakil in the history of Muakils.?

The preview for next episode was superb. Looks like Fawad will marry Dil Nawaz and Kiran will finally get a wake-up call. Stay tuned to see whether this drama keeps itself on the right track or deteriorates like many other aired this season!

Dil Nawaz has rather been slow in these episodes with Dil Nawaz still trying to win over Fawad by hook or by crook. She does not care what people are thinking and how normal things work, she will only settle for having Fawad completely in her life as her husband. With Fawad’s family finding out about Shah Jee, there was a hope that things will get solved but it just didn’t happen as Jahan Ara is falling in the footsteps of her sister and helped Dil Nawaz overpower him. From power to transforming to Fawad’s cousin and possessing Kiran, she is trying everything. The thing that bothered me a lot was Fawad not recognizing Dil Nawaz when she came to his house as Mariya. She was wearing the same clothes, same jewellery and was even talking in the same way which should have made things clear to him.

Jahan Ara’s falling towards the black magic is also an extremely annoying development. Tauseef married someone else under family pressure and on knowing that, she started doing black magic on others. She told Dil Nawaz that she would never harm him or his family because she loves him then why the hell are you harming other people girl?

Kiran is also a character who got lost in between everything going on with Dil Nawaz and Fawad. The only problem I have with the character is the behaviour they have shown of her with her mother. Why is she always whining about a boy she met some time ago and sidelining her mother who loved and protected her all her life is beyond me since after all her badtameeziyan with her mother, she is still shown as an innocent girl.

The one thing which bothered me is the return of Jahan Ara’s father. As Muslims, we believe no one comes back from death and there they are showing Jahan Ara’s Abba Jee wandering around the whole city and talking to whomever he wants. Another concept they showed in the drama which was strange that Dil Nawaz tells Fawad about her cousin marrying a human girl and they are living happily together. Like how can they make characters say those dialogues and not clarify them later?

Apart from the Atma concept and Jin living a happy married life with a human girl, these episodes were decent and the preview shows some action. Stay tuned guys!

All the tracks in Dil Nawaz are winding up now. Everything is out in the light now with everyone aware of the situation. The most important development in Dil Nawaz is Fawad’s father realising the situation his family is in. Rasheeda is a woman drowned in selfishness and her all measures have only caused the situation to go worse but Fawad’s father, on the other hand, is a very sensible man. He will try to make the situation better rather than asking for stupid measures to get Fawad married tom Mariya.

The most disappointing track in the episodes was that of Kiran. Kiran’s mother is a character who has shown to be supportive and accepting of everything her daughter does. She is a hard-working and loving mother but what she got from her daughter in the end? Kiran openly sided with Rasheeda against her. Kiran even did not tell her about Nasir calling off the marriage was for Kiran’s sake and not himself. Kiran is also kind of obsessed with Fawad as she is not caring about her mother’s life just for him which was very disappointing to watch.

Fawad is a person everyone is obsessed with. His mother then Kiran and now Dil Nawaz. Dil Nawaz is using every tactic to save her “marriage” with Fawad. This marriage is not yet clarified by the makers. Dil Nawaz said that Fawad was not under her spell when they got married and he did not deny it and now he is constantly denying it. There should be an explanation of this shaadi now with everything else moving towards a climax.

Jahan Ara finally decided to give a chance to Tauseef but ended up finding about his son. She always calls Tauseef for everything and her sister humiliated him for years but still, she wanted him to keep waiting for her. And after finding about his son, she started a stupid rant about maine barri ko maar diya which was downright annoying. Girl! Your sister died of cancer and she was a very bad human being, your wish to get married has nothing to do with it but seems like Jahan Ara is not very bright to realise facts.

One good thing is they have shown an educated person handling this stuff with the help of Quran instead of a jhar phoonk wala baba which is a commndable step. What are your thoughts on the latest developments in Dil Nawaz? Share in comments!

The characters of this drama are so beautiful that a viewer really indulges in the whole situation. Dil Nawaz will now go to any extent to get Fawad and she extremely tortured Mariya. She even accepted openly in front of Alam Ara that she has fallen in love. The way Fawad behaves with her has made her even more hopeful that she will get a happy ending. Fawad is strongly under her spell. He does not care about his life anymore. All he wants is Dil Nawaz and he is not even realizing that he wants a supernatural entity to be his wife and spend a normal life with him.

Alam Ara has tied down Dil Nawaz and is reciting long rants against love. She always mentions what she did with Jahan Ara and Tauseef. She has gone insane to the level that even her nearing death has no effect on her. She not only tied Dil Nawaz due to her obsession with power but she has also tied Jahan Ara with the love Jahan Ara holds for her elder sister. She wants Jahan Ara to take her place and become the successor to the seat of Hazrat Bibi. Jahan Ara is a very nicely written character too. The writer has shown through her character that if you have good inside you. no darkness of your surroundings can overcome it.

Neelam Muneer owned her character today again with great prowess. She translated the greyness of Dil Nawaz beautifully on screen. She knows that keeping Fawad under a spell and torturing Mariya is wrong but she is a creature in love and will go to any lengths to succeed. Kiran’s character has really gone into the background though. She believes that something is wrong with Fawad and is willing to help him but she is not really trying to get things done. Also, she does not like her fiance and is still preparing for the wedding she has no intention to do.

Rasheeda is just plain egoistic. Her ego is the reason for the destruction of many lives but she is still on a Mohallay main badnam karr doongi spree. She knows she has caused all these problems but is still not willing to even accept her mistakes. Khalid, however, has become annoying now. A brutally injured girl was taken from his home in an ambulance. His son remained in the hospital due to hallucinations. He gets a house in one-fourth of its original price but he does not want to believe something is wrong. This family has acceptance issues.

How Fawad is now going to free Dil Nawaz, that is a sequence to look forward to. Let us see how the story unfolds further and if Kiran will ever try to do something other than preparing for her non-ending exams!

Dil Nawaz is a slave and she is following Alam Ara’s orders since forever. But the new twist to the story has finally put Dil Nawaz on the front foot and she has taken it in stride very easily. Alam Ara has long been her manipulator but she is not going to live very long. Her cancer will totally change the game for every character because she has enslaved not only Dil Nawaz but her sister too. Jahan Ara is the one who finds out that Alam Ara is suffering from cancer but she chooses not to tell her. Alam Ara has been shown as a truly obsessed character. Despite her condition, she is still only interested in getting money so she could buy abba jee ke khawabon ka gharr. Hats off to the writer of Dil Nawaz for making such beautiful characters. The way he has etched out the complexities of each character should be applauded. You will dislike a character in one second and will feel for him/her in the other. Even Alam Ara’s obsession is to keep her father’s name alive and she is trying to do it by hook or by crook.

Dil Nawaz has come on the front foot now. She is making herself known, as well as, is okay with destroying anything or anybody who will come between Fawad and her. She has fallen in love with him and will not let him go even if she has to disobey Alam Ara. Though Alam Ara wanted to keep her illness under wraps but Dil Nawaz knows now that she is weak and she will now never let Fawad go. She will go to any lengths to save her love. The writer nailed it here by not making her character consider her surroundings or consequences like a human would do, like Kiran did. She is a supernatural entity, wanting something and she will just go straight for it.

Jahan Ara is also coming out of her shell and sought help from the guy she loved, Tauseef. She is a normal person and is still sanely trying to help Alam Ara in this situation. She loves her sister and is trying to save her regardless of what Alam Ara did to her life.

Kiran is still confused though Baba Jee is giving her open clues that she has to do something. She is deceiving herself as well as her fiance. Her fiance seems like a nice person and offered to help solve the mystery she is indulged in. Maybe she will end up asking for his help in the coming episodes because there is no useless character in this drama. The writer even used Mariya’s character beautifully to showcase Dil Nawaz’s obsession with Fawad.

Dil Nawaz has actually set a standard for supernatural content in Pakistani entertainment. No one will levitate, no scary faces and still you will get hooked to the screen. Everyone has played their character to perfection and loved Neelam Muneer in every scene. She has managed to feel scary and look good at the same time which is truly a feat. Simply one of her best performances till date.

Looking forward to the next episode and waiting for Kiran’s character to come to terma with the situation. How did you people find Dil Nawaz?

So the truth is finally out. With Fawad being in the hospital for few days and everyone around him considering him schizophrenic, he now knows that Dil Nawaz is not a human. Fawad got all his colleagues in trouble when he started claiming that he sees a girl and what they did? They tried to kill him with an overdose of sedatives! He was not violent and still, the hospital staff was giving him sleeping injections every hour. Seems like Fawad is not very friendly towards his co-workers. He even slapped Dil Nawaz and obviously apologized, the boy was super frustrated after all. But Fawad should not hit women even if they are not human.

Rasheeda is such an annoying character and the truth is she loves her sister’s daughter Mariya and Mariya’s bank balance more than she loves Fawad. To save her son, she went to Kiran’s house and even used tears to get her help her son but as soon as he was visibly fine she was again planning to get Fawad married to Mariya. Seems like she will finally be getting a taste of what she has been cooking for others in the next episode. Kiran’s plot right now is a useless stretch with her still being indecisive about what she wants to do and meeting that mysterious Baba Jee again and again.

Alam Ara has some terminal illness but her greed is still above everything for her. She is still pursuing the dark way to get money. Jahan Ara is a normal person but Alam Ara will never let her have a normal life. She, on the other hand, is trying to convince Jhan Ara to do the same magic she does so they can increase their business.

The most annoying thing for these two episodes is Fawad’s attachment to Dil Nawaz. She made him fall for her by magic but he looks stable now and still he is dying to get Dil Nawaz and has no feelings left for Kiran who he wanted to marry and even left his parents for her. He willingly and easily accepted Dil Nawaz’s true identity which is hard to digest. How can a human who is attached to a scientific field easily accept that his wife is a JINN!! He, on the other hand, is trying to convince her to come in front of his parents. Maybe he has forgotten this is kind of impossible to actually live your life with a non-human entity. He is so in love with Dil Nawaz and as Rasheeda said gave no lift to Kiran.

Neelam Muneer and Wahaj Ali both have nailed their performances. Neelam has brought a reality to the supernatural part and it seems real. Wahaj was also convincing in the scenes when people were not believing Fawad that Dil Nawaz exists.

So far the way they have executed the story, the pace and screen time have made this a perfect drama to watch. The director has a done his job well. The only thing wrong about Dil Nawaz is Wahaj’s lip stain. It is extremely bad!

This is probably the fastest and most too the point drama on air right now. No fuss, no dragging and proper propagation of the story with each episode. These two episodes have turned the story in a direction that my first reaction was WOAH!! Like any Pakistani or to be more specific Adian story, I expected that Kiran will come at the point of Nikkah and will shout rukk jao Fawad but that didn’t happen shockingly and now Fawad is married to Dil Nawaz. Dil Nawaz is in love with Fawad and like it seemed from the start, she is not an evil entity. But due to Alam Ara she is not in control of her life and cannot save Fawad from his misery.

Kiran and her engagement’s track is being dragged now. She is having nightmares and is aware that something is wrong with Fawad but she is still stuck in an engagement which she didn’t even want in the first place. Kiran’s mother’s character is hands down beautiful. She is a strong woman who believes in her child and trusts her. Rasheeda is reaping what she sowed. Alam Ara is after her and will do anything to make her miserable. Jahan Ara’s character looks like will change a bit in the coming episodes. She has openly started saying that what Alam Ara is doing is wrong and their father will never approve of this.

Fawad is a mess now. He is stuck with Dil Nawaz and Alam Ara thinks it was a mere drama and not an original marriage. So she is keeping Dil Nawaz away from him. Fawad’s colleagues and family; everyone is thinking that he is not normal anymore. Rasheeda is not believing about Dil Nawaz and thinks that Fawad has become so aggressive and abnormal because she separated him from Kiran. She is finally thinking about her son rather than her ego but she is too late. Kiran is also late now as she didn’t consider Baba jee’s advice and her mother wants to marry her off as soon as possible to distance herself from the whole environment.

Neelam Muneer did a fabulous job in portraying the powerful supernatural entity who has fallen victim to the wickedness of human beings. She is translating Dil Nawaz’s emotions beautifully. Zainab Qayyum has also done justice to Alam Ara’s role showing her wickedness and self-obsession.

The preview shows that Rasheeda will ask Kiran to come to Fawad and Kiran will find that mysterious Baba Jee. Let us see what happens next!