So I was looking for a new show, since I missed my soaps and the forum too, too much and mom loves this show and recommended it to me! Since I will never say no to 4Lions romance (😆), I got all caught up last week and came to the forum to see what was happening, and who should I find?
YAY! 😃
Now, coming to the show, awesome analysis as always, Jyo. I like that they have smoothed out a lot of rough edges from other shows here. They also seem to be drawing on a lot of different literature and pop culture. Your prediction that Saahir will "seduce" Arzoo to save Zaki reminds me a lot of the movie Sabrina (which was actually remade in Hindi as Yeh Dillagi with Kajol, Saif and Akshay Kumar). There the driver's daughter who is in love with the younger brother gets a make-over and he gets totally attracted to her, putting his engagement with the daughter of an important business partner at risk. The older brother tries to make the driver's daughter fall in love with him to save the business merger but ends up falling in love with her himself.
The whole Zeenat track (and someone must have mentioned this already) reminds me of Daphne DuMaurier's novel, Rebecca, where a young girl gets married to an older man whose wife, Rebecca passed away. The whole book she is told by all the servants how beautiful/awesome Rebecca was, especially by the housekeeper (Kurti appa?) and how she can never measure up. I won't spoil the end in case anyone is planning to read it, but this seems very, very similar. Hopefully, they follow through properly on all the plot threads.
So nice to see you!