Parizaad – An Epic Drama Serial that got Global Acclaim and A Rightful Applaud

Parizaad and Annie  - Beautiful End of Drama Serial

While watching the finale mega episode of Parizaad yesterday. What was flashing in my mind with eyes all wet was not just the flashback that the director had shown before the presentation of the actual last episode. My flashback was a way different as I was recognizing bits and pieces of myself and of other people whom I have met in my life in the character of Parizad, and the many other characters, both in male and female ways. The writer Hashim Nadeem has written wonders with his hands, and his dialogues and poetry are a perfect online gift that people are sharing with their loved ones out of this blockbuster serial, and on social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Twitter is trending for these two days, and in fact, from the time the last episode ofParizaad was premiered in local cinemas. The big-screen charm is there but Pakistan is a country where people are more engaged with television, and a replay over YouTube now. The last episode was handled with utmost care and the director’s aesthetics were seen with the drone shots and the swirling camera rounds of snowy mountains, and the roads, the valleys, and the hut where the old but determined "Urdu" teacher was living presentation was awesome and so was the acting by bot leads means Parizaad, played by now a household name “Ahmad Ali Akbar”, and the undoubted superstar of this era named “Yumna Zaidi”, who played the role of the sweet but intelligent blind “Annie”.

As we saw that Parizaad escaped all luxuries and that lonely and miserable life as a left out man after the departure of Annie for the United States. He went to the extreme North of Pakistan, which means Neelum Valley by chance, and became a headmaster’s guest by fate who was solely running a primary school. So, we saw a new twist as he started teaching there and then took over the charge as the great master was ill. It was a new horizon for Parizaad and gave him a new but brighter meaning of life.

The second last episode was ended at a close encounter with Annie, who could see but didn’t recognize Parishad. For the whole week, there was a discussion over social media as to how could she not find any picture of him, and she could have easily guessed him as per her handmade sculpture. In the last epic episode, the disclosure of Sharjeel (Annie’s cousin and secret lover) made it clear that the man who was ashamed of his below-average looks and his dark skin had smashed his statue, and was never interested in having his photos being shot. They both met at the school award ceremony where Sharjeel had come with Annie, as she is a reported working with a news channel. The whole meeting, dialogue, and the acting of Ahmad were superb.

As Parizaad, now known as Ahmad was forced by the topper student to present him with the winner prize, he had to come to dice, and the senior master asked him to say a few words. It was a heart-touching moment as he didn’t want Annie to recognize him by his voice. But he had to speak, and when it happened and we saw a smiling Annie turning into a shocked lady, and then recognizing who was in front of her. Here I cannot say how many words can define how beautiful and hearing touching was the performance and expression changeover by Yumna Zaidi. Hats off to you great performer of Pakistan of this decade….!!

The last scene was a delight to watch when both leads were shown on a hilltop, and where she came said many things, and Parizaad was all grieving in pain. When she closed her eyes and felt her ideal and love of life, Parizaad, it was a fantabulous job. Well-conceived presented but beautifully done by both actors. The high standard of drama was maintained, and viewers were more than moved to see the wows of Annie with tearful eyes, a sense of discovery of her lost treasure.

Yeah! Parizaad, despite his extreme self-pity, was loved by that blind sweet girl. It gives hope to the viewers that physical deformity or the skin, race, and features are not subject to the definition of a good soul versus a bad and unlikeable one. Some critics think as to why the director hadn’t followed the real end of the novel of Parizad. Where he died act made suicide. But I see it’s good that the end was changed to a happy one with elegance and grace. If Parizaad could are dead or done suicide then a very wrong message would have conveyed to millions of viewers that only charming and conventionally beautiful people have a right to live and find love. Which I would never agree upon. Brave Team Parizaad and to Hum Tv for giving us a delightful and eye-opening drama after Raqeeb Se…!!

Hum Kahan Ke Sache They - A Non-convincing End for Sure..!!

Hum TV offered many highlighted drama serials in the year 2021. Though the year was very stressful and full of anxiety due to continuing waves of pandemic. Here, watching some good pieces of audio-visual art medium and especially from television was a delight. As the whole cinema was a continuous closure, and there were no live concerts and theater. So, television dramas were the only entertainment medium that persisted in these lock down times.

Hum Kahan Ke Sachy The was a very high prolific drama serial which was directed by ace director "Farooq Rind". Pyaar Ke Sadqy and Ishq Zahe Naseeb fame. The storyline was of famous fiction writer of the current Urdu literature named "Umera Ahmed". The drama was based on her already popular and acclaimed short novel of the same name.

Mahira Khan, a name of no introduction in Pakistan, India and other South Asian countries was the main lead as "Mehreen" in the play. Yeah! It was an audience delight to watch their favorite actress in a lead role on television after a long time. Then there was gorgeous "Kubra Khan" as the "Marshal". The hot junk of the industry means "Usman Mukhtar" as "Aswad" was also in the make lead. Unfortunately, having all the best potential attributes for a single serial, a big disaster and a flop at the end.

Yeah! It was a disaster to see Umera Ahmed, herself compromised on her one of the highly acclaimed masterpiece in writing for the sake of money? I don't think that Fame is a problem with her anymore. Why she compromised on the basic soul of her original story, the psychological depth that the novel carried and which us caused in small kids due yo strange behaviors of adults. Why she gave the director and a production house a chance, to change the entire end..?

Her all time readers and followers could have forgiven the changes on the name of 'Cinematic Justice', as if it really had appealed to sane human minds. No. It doesn't at all as how can one expect a complete Sadist "Aswad", to be forgiven without no punishment or a virtuous change. How could Mehreen, even if she had survived the nervous breakdown, all credit to Aswad could so easily forgive and forget that he never listened and trusted her, his own mother, aunt and anyone but a sudden change came to him, listening to "Shabbo", an old but a suspicious maid at Mashal's house.

How could one think that a phonic and self-centered man like Aswad could ever be relied do easily after the damage he had caused in Mehreen's life, being her so-called husband and a childhood lover. At once, a fragile and complexed gitl like Mehreen hot such a great confidence to face her grandmother, uncle, aunt and everyone on her own. Could say such brilliant dialogus and could make them feel guilty. A lifelong mystery and shattering personality changed into a strong woam, and the one who was ready to start everything, and to bond with everyone without letting them all to be apologetic to her in a real sense, and to get a reality based assurance from Aswad and his mother, ironically who was so opinionated but good for nothing whenever it cane to stand with the weak  but the right person.

What's Your take on the whe drama serial of "Hum Kahan Ke Sache Thy", and as if you are convinced with the end and the final twist in thd rėkė, even if you haven't read the actual novel of adaptation like me then please share your opinions. Thank you guys...!! 

Parizaad and Annie Meetup is Heart-Warming and Splendid Audiovisual Presentation!

Parizaad and Annie Sweet Match

The drama serial "Parizaad", currently a talking buzz of the town is getting more intense with every new episode. Usually, we have seen a case in vice versa in recent times with "Hum Kahan Ke Shae Thy", losing interest in the audience due to so many directorial flaws and lingering of a small storyline. Then we have seen this happen with "Khuda Aur Mohabbat 3", though Iqra Azia and Feroze Khan along with ace actors performed great it lost a great interest by the time it was ended. But it is not the case with Parizaad. With each passing episode we want to know what will come next, and how he will deal with something new in his dramatic life. 

Hats off to the great performance by Ahmad Ali Akbar aka Parizaad, I guess he was never recognized being so toxically great performer. He has done justice to the complex role of Parizaad which is beautifully written or a literary creation of "Hashim Nadeem Syed". The most recent episode carries a great meetup of Annie with Parizaad. Though they were connected on phone, and Parizaad asked Annie, Yuman Zaidi, not to meet him after her request to form a sculpture of him in the last week's episode. Then she came to his office despite his shut-up call, and for the very first time, he reacted so bluntly and in a way brutally with words. He asked her to get out of his office as she was doing the highest level of mockery with an asking of sculpture of an ugly man like him. 

But when she got up and he saw the white stick and came to a reality check that she was blind then he was all into an apology. He was not able to understand how he could have done so much injustice to a blind and innocent girl, without trying a little bit to know about her reality. His regret and guilt have taken him to her home where he got a chance to meet her educated, modest, and very intelligent, and nice lady. Who treated her in such a nice way and without keeping in mind that he is the richest man in the whole town. Annie is sweet, chirpy and in fact, brings in color for the very first time in Parizaad's life. Now, he respects her that she is not in logging for his wealth, power, social status and only likes him due to his poetry and his inner personality, as she cannot focus on his outward appearance. 

We see him amused at the chat on the phone where she tells him that her mother said that she disturbs him, and his courtesy asks him not to stop her. He feels and enjoys and talks like a normal naughty way of a boy for the very first time, and showed agreement with Annie's mother. When she threatened to cut down her call, and he doesn't stop her but asked her to remember him some days. It was all awesome, and so gentle and sweet. Parizaad definitely deserves a lover and a life partner like Qurat ul Ain (Annie), not the hypocrite and selfish "Naheed", who has finally reached his lavish home and has in fact presented herself to him on the plate. But, it's his greatness and his pure soul that he showed all courtesy, and refused him, keeping her dignity alive. 

Parizaad told thee that she hadn't come for that same poor, ugly but passionate lover who used to stay out of her home for the whole day, for a chance to see her. But it's a delight for her younger sister, Kanwal, who currently works at his office. She felt that Parizaad is a man of honor and she started to doubt when he accepted the meeting request of Naheed so easily. We as viewers are also convinced that a thorough gentleman ad a pure soul like Parizaad deserves sweet and loving Annie, and not the Naheed, who is so easily ready to ditch her husband Amjad for the sake of money and status of Parizaad, at present times. Another delightful episode ended with many significant messages and dialogues that really touched our hearts, minds, and souls for sure. Let's see what comes next in this epic dram serial of 2021 by Hum Television Network. 

Mehreen Got a Proof of Being Innocent but at the Cost of Losing her Sanity in Hum Kahan Ke Sache Thy!

Mahira Khan - Now Deserves a Relief

The latest episode of the famous drama serial of the current times named "Hum Kahan Ke Sache Thy" was wonderful as the truth was revealed to Aswad finally. It has crushed him and let him fall in such a great guilt that he is suffering the aftermath. Now, he is recalling all discussions and situations with a new psyche, and understand can now reenact the actual truth by himself. But it too late, he had tortured and dealt so brutally with Mehreen, the role was played by famous and legendry actress Mahira Khan. She being Mehreen has a nervous breakdown and is also facing the Schizophrenia, all due to mental torture that Aswad (Usman Mujhtar) gave him in the drama. 

Mehreen was a very disturbed child who had seen her father's failure from grace, and then his suicide and dead body in her childhood. She had faced the crises of her mother being remarried, and she was forced to live at her maternal uncle, aunt, their daughter Mashal, and the equally annoying and hate mongering grandmother. She was raised in a very negative and hateful environment, and a place where her only freedom was to sketch, paint, write her diaries and to participate in extra-curricular activities at her school, college and then university. For which the Kubra Khan, a known actress who played the role of Mashal was always jealous. There was a clear fault of her parents to keep on comparing her with the talents of Mehreen. 

Mehreen faced the consequences of being always a bully of circumstances. The taunts of the deeds of her father that she as a child knew nothing about. Mashal in her hate and revenged of being engaged with Aswad, tried to kill Mehreen as the final truth was revealed by the maid of the house named Shabbo. What a tragedy, Mehreen faced her whole life as a neglected child, a miserable life of intolerance, degradation, embarrassment, neglected, and hated by everyone except her aunt Saleha, who is a mother of Aswad. But her turmoil didn't end after marriage with Aswad, as he proved to be the biggest monster of her life. One, who has taken her to the corridors of insanity, madness, schizophrenia and gave her such torture for the crimes that she had never committed. 

Alas! No use as she has already lost her nerves and trust of life and people. It is really going to be all that great in a way. What's the use of being in guilt when he as a sane and mature man had so much of chances to talk to investigate the truth long before the breakdown of Mehreen. But, somehow it is a reality of life that we always try to put pressure on those whom we feel weak in front of us. The readers of the novel are quite disappointed by the audio-visual presentation of an otherwise very intellectual and beautiful story that was written years back by Umera Ahmad. But somehow the drama is moving towards end, and the tale is unwinding and folding in a better way now. Let's see as if the director follows the end of the actual story or make a change as a part of cinematic license...!! 

Even Mahira Khan with a Powerful Performance Couldn't Save Hum Kahan ke Sahce Thy from a Flop..!!

Hum Kahan Ke Sahe Thy - An Honest Review

Mahira Khan has impressed me for the very first time with her acting in the currently running drama serial on Hum Television network named "Hum Kahan ke Sache Thy". This means, we were not truthful as the world. It is a metaphorical use of a quotation that leads us to know our very own flaws and in-depth lies that make us successful in the outer world. But it is like a termite that swallows our souls from inside. The paly is produced on the famous short novel by great fiction writer of current times in Urdu Literature named "Umera Ahmad". She is renowned for her literary contibutions like  Meri Zaat Zara e Be Nishan, Man o Slawa, Peer e Kaamil, Aab e Hayat, Shehr e Zaat, Alif, Hum Kahan k Sahe Thy, Daam, SInf e Ahan and lots more to her credit. 

Interestingly, all these writeups are adapted and famous drama serials have already been made. But the " Hum Kahan ke Sache Thy" is a bit different as is an insight into human behaviors and psychology, and a lesson to let people know as to how their behaviors and tongue can affect the entire life and personality of a kid in his or her growing years. The drama serial is currently on air every Sunday, at a prime time of 8 pm in Hum TV Entertainment, and the roles of "Mehreen" are very well-played by Mahira Khan, an international name of fame from Pakistan. The role of "Mashal", a very twisted one is also greatly done by Kubra Khan, a comparatively new sensation who has mesmerized the television and film audience with her beauty and performance. Another major character of the story is "Aswad", and it is plainly done by "Usman Mukhtar". 

Overall the credit to actors in lead and character roles must be given as everyone is doing justice to what is expected. But there are strong directorial flaws in the drama. Firstly, the story as in the novel is short and the drama is lingered on unnecessarily. There is too much emphasis on melodrama and the background score. By the way, it is a great soundtrack but there is no need to keep on playing it so loud in the whole drama. Then the flashbacks and the mismatched presentation of various characters have destroyed the impact that the novel readers carried in their minds. 

How adults behave and talk with putting self-censorship to their thoughts and tongues. Actually, it is spoiling and destroys the growth of young kids. Filling them with unnecessary venom against their own family members. How comparisons, jealousy, and hatred make people full of flaws as adults and responsible citizens. Despite the great acting by Mahira Khan, the drama has lost its initial boost as the audience is too disappointed by the much lingered on presentation, and there are many episodes where simply nothing new happens at all. 

The dialogues are not that powerful like Khali ur Rehman Qamar plays, even if he has a simple story to tell to the readers and audiences. The character of Mashal was not properly visualized, as to how and why she was so much in hatred towards Mehreen by the continuous comparisons. How Mehreen is deprived of every good thing is not presented properly, just because her father died and mother had a second marriage. She was dependent on her grandmother, uncle, and aunt for being brought up. It is interesting to point out, as her aunt Selaha always felt so much sympathy for Mehreen. Why she hadn't taken the girl to her home when her only son even lived in the United States. 

It could be a blockbuster and an intellectual asset of Hum TV, if the storyline was properly perceived and executed by the director "Farooq Rind" and his producer. Parizaad is also an adaptation of a novel but see how it is ruling the hearts, minds of not just the public but of critics from Pakistan and abroad. Proper execution can make a masterpiece like Money Heist, and a spoiler like Hum Kahan ke Sache Thy. That's sad as how a writer can compromise her beautiful words presentation in literature for the sake of just money...!!