Ishq Parast - Update at Episode 10

I've had a couple of people ask me about this drama, so I decided to do a update on it. I really like this drama. It has an easy-going storyline (which in the beginning kind of reminded me of Dhardkan,  the Bollywood flick with Suniel Shetty and Akshay Khanna), and the characters are well developed and likeable. So, I'm just going to give you a quick up-to-date on each character and what's going on with them up until now...

This is our hero - Zohaib. He fell in love with the heroine (Dua) at first sight and thanks to a great sister and Dua's parents, he manages to marry her too. Unfortunately, shadi ki raath he, Dua decides to tell him she has married him against her will and is in love with someone else. But Mr. Perfect is undaunted. He thinks he can win Dua over. So they pretend to be happily married in front of his family and he takes her on their honeymoon, where he proceeds to stay in a separate room. She also asks him for a khulla on her honeymoon, and he refuses. He tells Dua her izzat is more important to him and that if she wants to get separated from him, he will divorce her on grounds of something that will prove to the world that she is Ms. Sati Savitri. 

This is Ursala. Her brother (Mr. Perfect) has raised her as his own since they lost their parents at a young age. She is quite spoiled but loves her brother unconditionally. You would think she would be causing all kinds of rifts between her brother and sister-in-law, instead she gives her brother advice on how to romance and make up with his wife (who she thinks he has had a tiff with). Her conversations with their Khala are hilarious.

Reacquaint yourself with Dua. She was in love with her college fellow and to make him a more attractive proposal, encouraged him to apply for a job in Islamabad (or Pindi...basically out of their hometown). The second he leaves, Zohaib ke rishtay ki entry and Dua gets deceived into marrying him by her parents. She tells him she can't be a wife to him because she's in love with someone else on their wedding night. However, she is slowly, yet surely, comparing the two men in her life and I think she understands on a subconscious level, that she got the better guy. 

Ahhh. Let's talk about the parents. Pasha Sahab from day one is in hero's camp. He knows this is a great rishta for his daughter. When Dua insists she won't marry him, Pasha Sahab fakes a heart attack (supposedly brought on by the stress of Dua's refusal). Hence, Dua says yes to the wedding. Shortly after she finds out how she was fooled by her parents (poor mom's pronounced guilty by association). She isn't exactly on the best of terms with them. Pasha Sahab, however, has no regrets and feels reassured he picked the right man for Dua. 

This is Hamza - the jilted boyfriend. Hamza comes with a lot of emotional baggage: divorced parents, step-parents that didn't let his biological parents  keep him...He feels his only real  relationship was with Dua. With her marrying someone else, Hamza is pretty much going bonkers. He follows her to her honeymoon and forces her to hand Zohaib the khulla papers. He is stalking her in malls. Basically, he described his emotional turmoil best: If he can't be happy, no one can be happy.

 

This is the guy that should win the Best Friend of the Year award. Asad is Hamza's best friend and his voice of reason, even though, unfortunately, nothing seems to be getting through to Hamza. Asad understands his bestie got dealt a bad hand and that his life sucks with Dua gone, but he also understands where Dua is coming from. I'm glad to see a supporting character providing a positive influence....or trying to...

Unfortunately, the same can not be said for Dua's friend who has done nothing but aid and abet Hamza on his psycho-stalker path. She's the one who told him where they were honeymooning. #GreatGoing

Episode 10 ends on this note: Dua looking torn and Zohaib looking miserable. Dua fakes a headache to get out of the lawyer appointment and Zohaib goes and brings the divorce papers home, only to deliberately spill coffee on them to gain another day with Dua. Nothing over the top needed, hats off to the director and the actors for making us fall in love with these two and feeling for their situation. 

I hope I did a good job of whetting your apetites...the new episode should air today and maybe you will all be tuning in with me too...?