Mehram - Last Episode

As usual, I live under my own personal rock, and I had no clue this was supposed to be the last episode of this drama. But, last episode it was and end it did, so let's celebrate the final minutes of this saga until Hum TV figures out what to air that could possibly be even worse...

As we all remember, Molvi Sahab finally Allah ko pyaray ho gaaye. Iqra Ji is all alone in the world now, except for her namehram-but-mehram husband Hamza and the ever-imposing khala ji. Coming back from the funeral with Rashid, Hamza has the following deep and eye-openning *cough cough* conversations with his bestie...

Seriously - Rashid must be paid peanuts. This car is from the 1980s or somethings. Wheel caps tak nahi lagay huay...

I'm glad we got to see Rashid one last time. He's been the only who stuck with Humza through thick and Thin. Best bro-mance ever in pakistani drama history.

Maya is waiting for Hamza...nonchalantly fondling her passport...And we totally didn't see the camera focus on her passport when she got up from the table...

Maya calls Hamza a jerk for leaving his tragedy-ridden wife (Iqra) all alone and how he needs to go get her. Maya nei unka kamra bhi ready kar deea...

Oh - but it comes with a caveat: Iqra comes, Maya leaves. 

Humza's character was the most frustrating in this episode. For a guy who was suicidal when his two wives left him...who was seething with anger when he found out their plan to stick around until he got better then make him choose...is suddenly okay with one wife leaving him. Phir why was he being such a sourpuss when Iqra left? Ugh.

So Hamza calls Iqra to tell her he's on his way to pick her up.

Maya "prepares" Iqra's room for her entry into the house as Humza's non-platonic wife. Basically she walks around the room and leaves things untouched. What happened to all the talk of "Mai khud apki saij sajaoongi"??? 

 There were hardly any dialogues in this episode...lot's of standing around...looking into space for Humza

Lot's of packing for Maya and Iqra...

Humza's reaction to Maya's exit is just...i don't think i have the words to explain this...for a guy who is about to lose the wife who is supposedly his one true love the benign smile on his face makes no sense. Ofcourse we don't get any dialogues just musical silences so we have to assume what he must be thinking.

and then when he does speak...

yeah. Just keep quiet Humza.

Maya seems so confused that Iqra lives in this dump...

Maya beta...just because maulvi daddy is dead doesn't mean you should enter his house dupatta-less. If he wasn't dead already he'd have died now.

Bus - Farhat Aunty aa gaeen tu samjho kuch burra he honay wala hei.
Yup, Iqra has left and she's left a final letter to Hamza.

...now Maya wants to cuddle...

No joke. These two came home and next thing you know Maya is knocked up.

After ALL that...episode after episode of back and forth and back forth and back forth - and she just leaves and Hamza doesn't even bother to LOOK for her??

Hamza and Maya have a little girl jo bilkul ma pe gaee hei. 

Seems to me... She's more like her dad.

Wohi suicidal tendencies. 

Also, someone needs to fire the stylist for this drama. Everyone's wardrobe sucked. Big time.

Oh look Hamza! Your wife-but-not-wife has become a famous poetess!

We must have missed our calling because Hum TV would have us believe that writers are raking in the big bucks - pehle Fareeda from Digest Writer and now Iqra. 

In the time it took for Hamza and Maya to have a baby and Iqra to amass a fortune and get a decent blow-dry, Farhat Aunty has become old and (apparently) Iqra's nanny

Maulvi daddy ki death did wonders for iqra... She got a nice haircut, bought better clothes,  wrote and published x-rated poetry with not a care in the world. The first book, titled quite unimaginatively as "mehram" did well. But then Iqra got lazy and now the publisher is hounding her for a new anthology of poems. 

All we have so far is a name...

I have no idea why the publisher has such an OTT reaction to the name of the book. Its called "Terey Baad" not "I want to be a publisher's non-platonic wife"

And on that unsatisfying note this drama comes to an end...

with Iqra staring at the sunset...

and a dozen questions swirling in our head...

Did Areeb have a successful music career in London? Does Rashid get his own non-platonic wife? Where is Farhat khala's husband? Did she even have one? Will Maya ever discover the miracles of anti-frizz serums and a good blow-dry at the salon?
 and finally 
Did Humza buy the book of poems?
Someone suggested on another review page that there should be a sequel called "tere baad" where Iqra and Humza finally get together. To that person all I have to say is 

 Bye bye mehram, thanks for the laughs.