Alvida - Episode 8

This episode can also be titled as... Lies Fareesa tells to get hitched to Hadi or the episode where Mommy Dearest Loses her Mind.

Let's begin,

Hadi surprises mom Ji with the good news that he's going back to work. 

Considering how much grief both parents have been giving Hadi over his apathy, mom should've looked a little less shocked and a little more supportive.

Somehow Fareesa highjacked the moment and claimed it was all her good influence on Hadi.

 Jhooti amma nahi sirf jhooti bolta Hoga.

Mom immediately starts planning Hadi's second marriage to Fareesa. 

Yeah i'm sure everyone watching made same face. 

Mom's expressions are off during the whole episode. She makes these unapproving faces at Fareesa and then goes around convincing her husband how awesome Fareesa is. I was really weirded out by her. Like this scene - look at her face (the mom's). And then two minutes later she calls her husband and tells him Fareesa is awesome and I want to make her my bahu. What?!

In pindi Haya throws caution to the wind and becomes friends with Ramiz. Ramiz ki missal aisi hai Jaise ungli pakdayi toh poora haath pakad liya. He keeps flirting and I keep hating. Blekh! We also get a glimpse of the Pakistani psycho inside Ramiz just waiting to be let loose.

Yeah - did anyone else notice the horror movie background music before Ramiz confronts Haya about loving someone else?

Fareesa Hadi lunch.

So at this point, I read the comment by vee on previous episode review. Grrr. Is this drama based on a novel? If yes, has anyone read it? And are you willing to tell me the ending. Wink in the comments below, so I don't have to go through 20 something episodes of Farisa as the main character.

Somehow everyone has lost their mental faculties. For the record - this guy never had any to begin with. Inki harkatein have been Mehrami from the start. (Yup: new adjective "Mehrami". It means to have no have rhyme or reason except to make everyone stupid in the drama and flabbergast the viewers.)

 

 The only one who's brain is working, is Fareesa, and she's using all her grey cells to trap Hadi into marrying her. Wait - and the Dad who keeps being astounded, but still isn't telling his wife to stop forcing Hadi to marry Fareesa.

Really mom? You need it spelled out?

 Fareesa employs some serious and some downright dubious manipulations

seriously doctor dad, button up yo shirt, nobody wants a eyeful of that

I can't wait for this little chipkali of a domestic help to be instrumental in Fareea's downfall.

More creepy flirting between Ramiz and Haya. I was actually proud of Haya in this scene. She was 100% crystal clear: I do not want to be anything but your friend Ramiz. #BackOff

Kaukab ki reentry. The way these two talk about Creepy McToucherson, it seems like he's dead rather than just divorced/separated from kaukab. Finally thanks to Kaukab Haya knows that Aroosa is dead and a broken hearted Hadi is searching high and low for her. I'm still trying to understand the part about Hadi convincing Kaukab that Haya was innocent. Was he there? How does he know? Why is Kaukab convinced by Hadi that her husband was the jerk? Whaaa...?

Haya arrives back in Karachi only to find out that Hadi is getting married once again. Damn you domestic airlines and your crappy flight schedule. 

Seriously - I get Hadi doesn't want to marry Fareesa, but why is he dressed like a backup qawalli singer? I guess it's true: Money can't buy taste...
Note: PHENOMENAL use of the OST in this drama. I don't enjoy listening to the OST as much as I enjoy it when they situationally plug it in the drama. And when Sanam Jung looks at Imran Abbass with her doe eyes and it plays in the background...*taalian*

Hadi accuses his bride of only a few hours of housing Haya's whereabouts from him. But all it takes are a few fake tears and he backs off. Luckily - we still get to be treated with this look Hadi makes atleast once in every scene he has with Fareesa: 

Oh good lord how are we going to bear Fareesa and her breathless voice, as Hadi's wife, for the next twenty or so episodes. More importantly, how are we going to bear her wordrobe choices?? (Waise, now that she's married to Hadi, she has no reason to be all "nice". I don't think it'll take long for her to turn all vampy.)

I don't really want Haya to end up with Ramiz in the end, but I also don't want her to become Hadi's third wife in end. I think you should be grateful he's married to only one girl at a time. I mean, who wants to watch yet ANOTHER dosari biwi saga?! This was supposed to be one if the good dramas and yet somehow I find myself hating it. Hmmm...I don't really hate it, but as discussed before, it's such a sloppily put together narrative that it gets annoying to watch. Too many holes, too many overlooks, too many unexplained phenomenons - this drama is a mess. It's like writing an essay and not proof reading it.