Tumhare Siwa - Episode 2

Episode 2 in a nutshell...

Samra's made up disease can only be operated on by foreign doctors. It is also expected to be ex-pen-sive. Way beyond the means of the flight attendent, Arsal. 

Oh, and she only has two months to live. 

Rania comes to Samra's house in bathroom chappals. 

These two have nothing to do but talk about but her bhai and bhabhi. *Yawn*

...uhh oh-kay....

The company representative starts to lay the foundation of the absurd direction this drama is about to head in...

Samra has an 'episode.' Since we don't know whats wrong with her, we can't poke any fun as to why she's being treated with an oxygen mask for a splitting headache...

Strike 2. Who CARES if Aazar can get a loan? I mean, bank walay abandon any semblance of sense and harp on and on about how Arsal isn't qualified for the loan but Aazar is. 

Strike 3. This company bigwig doesn't even bothering implying. He just outright says the only way you can get the money is if you marry her. #WTF

...over her dead nand's body...

The team could've made some effort to actualy make her look sick. 

Go ahead. Say it Rania. #DosariBiwiNonsense

This has to be the most ridiculous scenario the writer could've created. There is just so much wrong with this, but I will save it for the episode where everyone actually agrees to it. Because you know that's what's going to happen...

Tumhare Siwa - Episode 1

Like a good boy, Hum TV has provided yet another winner *cough cough*.

Let's just go ahead and judge this book by its cover, because with this cover you know some awesome-sauce blogging opportunity has presented itself on a silver platter to us. Two names people: Ayesha Khan and Ahsan Khan. Let the (blog) good times begin...

Check out the brooooo-mance. Woot woot! The second I saw these opening scenes, in my mind this started playing *insert the extremely addictive Party All Night (by Yo Yo Honey Singh) chorus and an image of me doing a touch down dance*. I mean, just look at these stills - those red glasses, jogging in designer polo shirts...#BloggerHeaven

Oh Mansha. I had put you on my 'like' list after your awesomeness in Mera Naam Hai Yousuf and then you decided to do this. Really. It's a shame (for you, Mansha) because this drama is obviously going to be a blogfest of screenshots and memes. 

Uffffo - overacting ki overacting. RIP any dreams Ayesha Khan might've had of being an actress in Bollywood. 

Here are the two happy couples: Aazar married to Rania and Arsal married to Samra. Aazar and Rania have a son Dani and Arsal and Samra have a daughter Neni. 

This is Tania, Aazar's sister that looks ten years older than him but calls him bhaiyya, her husband Babar, who hates being treated like second class citizens by his brother-in-law and his wife, and their son, aka Numair, aka spawn of the devil. 

Aazar has a birthday 'party' with these two lovely couples. Hum TV must have no faith in the intelligence of its viewers because this whole situation is created where a fight between the kids turns into a show down between the adults. Aazar's sister and family doesn't get along with his wife and hates his best friends. We got it. No need to spell it out. 

The scene where it becomes obvious that Rania wears the pants in this relationship. 

The scene where you realize Noor Hasan is too young to play a dad. #CastingIssue

...ummmm ok. Aisa lag ra hei poori zindagi yeh drama chalayga for this madam to get her inteqaam. God forbid. 

Some concerns raised in Episode 1:

Sharing information with someone who claims, "Mein behnoon jaisi hoon?" Really? How does that seem leggit at all?

Wow. Fire that hired help pronto. 

Samra must be the seedhi saadhi one. Rania is obviously the taiz and modern one - the no-dupatta is like the biggest give away. But, if Arsal and Aazar are chuddi buddies and both are pilots...wait. Hold that thought. Maybe Aazar is a pilot and Arsal is cabin crew...?

Subha janay say pehlay tu bari pictures li ja rahi theen is bujhi bujhi shakal ki...

#TrueStory

Oh! Oh! Pick me! Pick me! I know the answer!! It's because her best friend is dying of a unnamed, incurable, terminal disease!! Do I get a Scooby snack?

Honestly - you want to feel for Samra who is about to die of god knows what, but all I could think about was that after women crying incessantly in dramas of susraali zulm, we now have women crying  incessantly of terminal illness. And N thinks we have no more originality left. Pffft. 

I enjoyed this drama SO much it only took me two weeks to watch the first episode. Ha! My spidey-sense is all tingly and I can tell this will be a complete waste of my time - but I feel Ahsen Khan deficient, so I'll stick to it like a bitter pill. Plus, it's like Hum TV gave me a personal challenge about mocking dramas and their medical inaccuracies. They gave Samra an unnamed disease - which I'm assuming is to give them license to give her whatever symptoms they please. 

Challenge accepted, Hum TV. Challenge accepted. 

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.