Sinf e Ahan - An Umera Ahmed Promising Drama for ISPR and ARY Digital..!!

Sinf e Ahan - Umera Ahamd Drama

Sinf e Ahan is one of the most promising new startups on AR Digital. It's a drama serial from the production house of Humayun Saeed and Nadeem Baig. He is a person who has generated masterpieces for Pakistani television and films, and mostly in collaboration with Humayun Saeed's production house. The most important thing about the play is that it is a joint venture with ISPR, and written by one of the most acclaimed young fiction writers slots of modern Urdu Literature named "Umera Ahmad". The drama serial is a narrative of six strong and brave girls from different backgrounds who are passionate to serve in the Pakistan Army in their respective fields of study. 

These young women have currently gathered at the Gujranwala Base for the ISSB examination and tests. It is must pass thing to be a part of the armed forces as an office. They have to go through many psychological, written, IQ, EQ, and then physical tests to prove themselves worthy of being a part of such a prestigious and disciplined institute. They are from different background and some of the remote area girls like one from Balochistan, played beautifully by "Ramsha Khan" has to break her tribal norms to be part of the Pakistan Army and pursue a career despite being a fragile girl. Then we see the Pashtun tribal girl named "Shaista", played in a great way as always we expect from Yumna Zaidi. Their family conflicts and their own dilemmas don't leave them from being a part of a test that would decide their future career and life path. 

Umera Ahmad has written each character in full length with its own specifications. We see an ex-army officer's daughter "Sajal Ali", who had topped the university in Electrical Engineering but was unable to find a good job, scholarship for further studies, and not even a good marriage match. Her brother is already a high-ranked SSG commando in Army. But she is equally confused and afraid of the test as the army connection won't work. Her ego asks her to be on top there as she had always been a topper. Then we see "Kubra Khan", a spoilt brat from an extremely rich family where her parents never had a good marital relationship, and it has affected her so badly on her personality and brought up. She is a licensed lawyer but suddenly gets a passion to join the army and be like her role model "First Lady General - Ms. Nigar". A legend but somehow her way to lead into the army as well. 

The important aspect of their lives and personalities tests are unfolded when they had joined all in one place to spend and participate in the test together. Here we see an old conflict is there between Sajal Ali and Kubra Khan, once the close friends and now the rivals, and the way turned towards the marriage proposal being rejected by the later. The reason was that Sajal wanted to knot of her beloved brother with her friend Kubra Khan. How it will unfold will be seen later. There is a Christian Girl, played by Syra Yusuf , and she is from a minority community and a poor family as well. She is teaching English Language and literature at someplace and wants hard to have a better life for herself and for her family as well. Her boyfriend who is a complete flirt is there to work against her desire to join Pakistan Army. 

The storyline of the drama serial seems promising, and then it is good that the girls are not just girls but mature young women who have completed higher education and are already on a verge of finding their independent career paths and names. Umera Ahmad is doing justice to the story, dialogue and to present her feminist approach that women can be storng like iron. The name of the drama serial "Sinf e Ahan" means the iron gender. This means the perception of the girls about themselves, and of the society is changing as they will be having a tough training at Kakul Academy, and then a hardcore life. They have to leave their luxuries, and their families need to liberate them from the age-old strong taboos that women are raised to get married, produce and raise kids and that is all. Here we see many supportive men in the shape of fathers, brothers, fiancée, and many are reluctant and fearful of the freedom of their ladies. 

The drama serial seems promising and it is focused on the main objective, to encourage the young women of Pakistan for joining the armed forces in different cores. Then it is definitely written in a good manner and the presentation so far is quite good with good scenic displays and actions being done. Nadeem Baig is doing a good job. Hope this presentation by ISPR is not at all disappointing like "Ehd e Wafa", despite being popular it didn't serve the objective well. A great audio-visual display and we want to see more of it, and it's the first gain of any drama or film in the right manner. 

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...!!