Paiwand - Episode 20 Update

Let's just start here: ARY Digital you suck. ...*Phew* Now that that's off my chest, we can begin. 

Paiwand started as a good old fashioned desi Cinderella story: poor pretty girl defies the laws of reality and gets married to Prince Charming. They fall in love, have a baby - it's all rainbows and unicorns. In comes the evil family members, her step sister (Maya) and her jilted wannabe suitor (Ayyaz) who plant a few seeds of doubt in the mind of Prince Charming and BAM, Prince Charming turns into a lame shukk machine and looses his BFF and wife. The BFF walks out. The wife he promptly divorces. *Sigh* To make matters worse, Hassam is forcing Samiya to stay with him by threatening to keep his daughter, who will die if she doesn't get breastfed (or some Pakistani-drama-medical-reason like that).  

I'm assuming the comment about our 'society values' left on the previous blog post of this drama is referring to Hassam keeping Samiya with him because they are divorced now. For the record, Samiya is waking around bleakly protesting about how it's haraam and how they can't live together. 

Now, as stupid as this recent turn of events makes me, when I put it into context of this drama, it actually becomes believable. Ahmed Ali has done a phenomenal job in portraying Hassam as this hot-headed, spontaneous, spoiled rich boy. Sure, he has a good heart, but he divorced Samiya as quick as he married her - with little thought to the actual consequences of his actions. 

For Samiya's part, she has told her mom who has a maintain-a-roof-over-my-head issue of her own. Tabassum Begum knows there is no way in heck that her husband will let Samiya move in with them, and barring that, there really isn't anywhere to go. So she's decided to play the, "My daughter has a hearing and/or comprehension problem" card in response to Samiya's confession. 

So, Hassam's parents finally return and decide to surprise their son by bumming a ride with Ali. Apparently, Hassam's mom is happy to be a grandma, but she still hates her daughter-in-law's guts.

Hassam shows Ali the pictures that caused him to think he's cheating on him behind his back and gets a setdown on trust and honesty between friends. But one more half-assed apology and Ali is all hugs and forgiveness. I mean, after all that ghussa, Ali didn't have to be such a pansy. Sheesh.

Baig Sahab knows something is up, but can't get anyone to spill the beans.

More evidence of how Hassam doesn't think things through: he spends a good chunk of time regretting his divorcing of Samiya and even tries to get Samiya to 'forget' he gave her a divorce and stay with him. #WhatTheWhat

Meanwhile, Maya is doing her level best to create chaos and antipathy towards Hassam and Samiya in her house. Hassam still hates her guts, so I'm assuming all she wants to achieve is to get her dad to divorce Tabassum Begum. 

Once more Malik Sahab leaves no insult un-uttered when dealing with his wife, who finds the guts to finally put her foot down and enlighten him about what a revenge thirsty monster his daughter has become. Doesn't do her much good because he just kicks her out and she goes into another room to basically remind herself she has nowhere else to go if he actually kicks her out of his house.

The episode ends on Mrs. Baig spilling the beans that Hassam has divorced Samiya - since they don't actually show her eavesdropping on Samiya and Hassam's conversation, how she finds this tibbit out, is anyones guess. 

I'm really hoping that Ali is going to end up stepping in to salvage this Samiya situation. Right now I'm so full of angst against Hassam, I'm praying he will get married to Maya. It sure will serve him right!

But, honestly, I'm not quite sure where this drama is headed now. As with all ARY Digital dramas, it started off good and now with 20 episodes gone, there's comeplete confusion as to where the story is going. I guess I'll just have to keep watching to find out...