Th 2; Aik Sitam Aur (ARY Digital); Anmol Baloch, Usama Khan - Page 28

Originally posted by: _NINA_

Sitam toh hum py ho raha hai 🤪

That's what na

Sufiyan The Sitamgar.

And dekhna end mein sab achha achha ho jaayega one big happy family ke jaise

The most disappointing change came in Zainab's character. How the director has turned a super confident woman with huge amount of self respect, into stupid, running after Wahab. Maria Wasti's acting too looks so artificial as if she herself is not able to connect with Zainab's character. Such a potential character wasted like this. This was the time when they could have shown a strong and poweerful Zainab ( which we saw when she asked Wahab to destroy her brothers' business )not giving a damn to her leech family members and standing by Shehroz. Her character has completely changed. I still do not understand what the director wanted, to force this angle of two wives fighting , they have ruined a character. When the drama's one of the major points was how two strong women tied to one man stand together in any situation, this particular angle was highly unnecessary. The director could not deal with the characters to bw honest, he should have focussed on how to wrap up Sufiyan's angle and then focussed on Shehroz and Wahab's relationship and Shehroz and Ushna especially exploring Ushna's side and should have ended the show. Instead , he has brought other angles into the picture, two wives quarrelling, Sadaf is now into the picture too, Dadi is coming, Sufiyan's angle is anyways there. I am wondering how the director will wrap all these angles. I dont know what will make Zainab get back to her old self suddenly. Naima's behaviour with Ushna is very much dependent on how Zainab behaves.

slightly different opinion but I am okay with the trajectory of the characters given that we have all these episodes to fill. while it is not necessarily fun to watch (and I do skip scenes here and there), at least the characters still make sense. that includes zainab.

she was left peniless after farooq's death. when she asked her friend for a job, her friend admonished her saying that she should have started working and being independent long ago. however, she did not do that because she wanted to please farooq. result is she has no job skills to really fend for herself.

now that she is settled again financially and emotionally, she is facing another storm. so it makes sense that she is running after wahab. at the end of the day, she is only the second wife and naima still is head of the house. so zainab does not have security that she will not be thrown out. will wahab stand up for her if naima tells her to leave? since she already had experience with her own brothers, there would be more fear.

the only thing that feels a bit misplaced is that she is not more concerned about shehroze. that seems to be the stickling point and cause of conflict between her and naima.

in terms of zainab being more forgiving of her brothers, that actually does happen. have seen it among my own relatives especially in my parents generation. they had so many fights and misunderstandings but when one fell sick, they all showed up. there was no talk of the past or all the fights -- love for the sibling overruled all the bitterness.

the bigger question is if this truce between zainab and rafaqat is temporary or permanent. my guess is that it will be temporary only. rafaqat was sick and pleading, zainab also didn't believe that sufiyan she knew from a baby would be capable of doing such a thing. so she is trying to smooth out the ruffles.

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The song is made for Ushna Shehroz 🤣

Originally posted by: Araya

That whole family acts like the whole world owes them something, look how mad Sadaf got when Shehroz told her to leave and that he wasn't giving her the job. Shehroz was restrained enough when Sadaf was literally sitting there spewing garbage about Ushna, yet see how crazy Sadaf gets when Huzaifa and Mehnaaz talk about Sufiyan. All hypocrites, all people that have no problem dishing it out, but can't take it when others do the same to them.

I wanna know how and what would make Sufiyan stop, he's beyond irritating these days and I need his blackmailer to step up his efforts to bleed that family dry asap. Sufiyan is beyond redemption and he doesn't deserve it, I don't feel any love for Ushna, all I can see is someone sinking lower and lower for the sake of his bruised ego. I suspect his feelings for Ushna got more intense because his parents were dead set against it at first, and then when there were more and more opposition, he suddenly felt like it was a me vs the world situation. It would fit with his narcissistic personality.

same! it is more and more clear that ushna was more like a toy he just had to get. just like he demanded and got everything from his parents, this was another item on that list. the shock of not getting something is too much for him to digest because he has not experienced setbacks before. plus given his personality,he cannot accept that the world does not revolve around him and his family.

so it will be interesting to see what would make sufiyan, sadaf and raeesa stop. something has to happen where they are forced to take accountabliity and are not able to blame anyone else. basically it will be satisfying for viewers only if these snakes are forced to look in the mirror, see their own reflections and also face the consequences.

Whoa!! I did not think this way. Thanks for the perspective. Now, I am trying to see Zainab in different light. Ok, so it is the insecurity of losing that financial security once again and hence she is behaving like that. She does not want to face the same situation like she did before. I also feel, after she married Ushna to Shehroz , she has also become assured for Ushna , the only thing bothering me her indifference towards Shehroz like you said. Rest of the change , I am able to get by reading your perspective now. I am still trying to understand her behaviour towards Shehroz. She looks unpeturbed with his accident , may be , it is because Shehroz is fine and he has people to take care of him including Ushna. Or may be she cares for him and knows Ushna will take care of him as after the accident, Zainab hardly has any conversation with Ushna except her talking about dual relationship and how her relationship will get affected because of Ushna. Otherwise, Zainab is not being shown influencing Ushna with her thoughts. It is more like she has left Ushna on her own and wants her and Shehroz relationshiop to grow like that.

Also, what I liked amidst all this, they all were sitting together inspite of all this chaos and chatting casually 😂( When Shehroz came in the room to ask for Rukhsati.)

Originally posted by: mango.falooda

slightly different opinion but I am okay with the trajectory of the characters given that we have all these episodes to fill. while it is not necessarily fun to watch (and I do skip scenes here and there), at least the characters still make sense. that includes zainab.

she was left peniless after farooq's death. when she asked her friend for a job, her friend admonished her saying that she should have started working and being independent long ago. however, she did not do that because she wanted to please farooq. result is she has no job skills to really fend for herself.

now that she is settled again financially and emotionally, she is facing another storm. so it makes sense that she is running after wahab. at the end of the day, she is only the second wife and naima still is head of the house. so zainab does not have security that she will not be thrown out. will wahab stand up for her if naima tells her to leave? since she already had experience with her own brothers, there would be more fear.

the only thing that feels a bit misplaced is that she is not more concerned about shehroze. that seems to be the stickling point and cause of conflict between her and naima.

in terms of zainab being more forgiving of her brothers, that actually does happen. have seen it among my own relatives especially in my parents generation. they had so many fights and misunderstandings but when one fell sick, they all showed up. there was no talk of the past or all the fights -- love for the sibling overruled all the bitterness.

the bigger question is if this truce between zainab and rafaqat is temporary or permanent. my guess is that it will be temporary only. rafaqat was sick and pleading, zainab also didn't believe that sufiyan she knew from a baby would be capable of doing such a thing. so she is trying to smooth out the ruffles.

Zainab was never penniless, she could have taken her shares from father's property. She chose not to take it just to hide a thing like adoption. She was getting blackmailed over a non existing issue. It's just that Ushna was told when she was already grown up with perception that she was real daughter of Zainab and Furkan. If she was told this earlier, it wouldn't have been such big issue. If in case she gets divorce from Wahab, she won't be penniless. She'll get a good alimony amount.

Both Zainab-Rafakat know equations between their kids are totally messed up, and any understanding parent wouldn't think about having family get together. Specially Rafakat-Raeesa are acting like their son is super innocent, but they know he is the one who tried to kill Shehroz. There is no improvement in him and he's just becoming bigger criminal every passing day. If they start interacting with Zainab which will eventually lead to interaction with Ushna, and Sufiyan is just waiting for that. He is already a stalker, psychopath, murderer without any regret. He wouldn't mind dropping bomb anywhere and become a terrorist if he sees there's a scope to get Ushna.

If Zainab believe that Sufiyan cannot be a murderer, still she should never agree to start dawat system or any family reunion which will give opportunity to Sufiyan to meet Ushna. It looks like she's pissed with Naima's behaviour and she is ready to play "Sautan" game to irritate her more, but she shouldn't forget Shehroz cannot stand Sufiyan. One side she was asking Ushna to block Sufiyan and if anything goes wrong between her and Shehroz, that would affect her and Wahab's relation too. Other side she herself making sure nothing goes right with Ushna's married life.

Rafakat and Zainab have never shared any decent relationship because of property issue as Rafakat was too keen to eat her sister's share. These kind of interaction make no sense. It's Shujat who has decent relationship with both siblings. Rafakat didn't give a penny for Furkan's treatment, nor he was concerned about Zainab and Ushna living in that low class area after Furkan's death without any source of income. Other side Zainab didn't change her decision to get Ushna married to Shehroz when she got to know Sufiyan tried to kill himself for Ushna. There's no depth in their relationship. These things look totally forced.

coffeecake -- would agree and disagree in parts.

yes, zainab had inheritance but because she had no access, it meant that she was penniless in that she was at the mercy of her brothers. instead of her making financial decisions like paying for ushna's college fees, she had to beg shujahat and rafaqat. neither was willing to cough up the fees and were instead asking ushna to defer her studies instead. so, the brothers did hold the adoption over her head but even if ushna had known, they still would not have given her share. instead, in their head, zainab is a widow and they will keep her in their house, give her some pittance and she is to live under their feet. that was their idea. they kept arguing that ushna is adopted and therefore, does not deserve anything else from zainab.

so zainab will get money and house if she gets divorced from wahab but she will miss him. she has got attached to him and now is comfortable being second wife. so it makes sense that she would not want to disturb that.

given her vehemence, it seems odd that zainab would want to keep peace with rafaqat but again, this is where real life experience comes in. am only saying this because I have seen it in my relatives side. they forget everything and only remember the childhood where they were all happy together. when sickness or some accident happens, all the other stuff is temporarily ignored and everyone wants to play happy family again. it is more difficult for us younger generation to swallow and pretend like none of the fights happened but the older generation is more willing to make allowances. 🤷🙄

this "let bygones be bygones" doesn't happen in all situations but there are families like that -- they are so entertwined that they will fight and still attend every function and keep talking. it is a bit toxic.

am not a fan of this marrying among the relatives/clan but I have attended functions where you will see this dynamic happen -- one was offered rishta but he chose to marry another girl#2. now girl#1 is married and everyone is pretending like the rishta talks between guy and girl#1 never happened. it is awkward and funny for bystanders but it does happen.

in this case, we as the audience know the extent of the snakes and how they are still spouting venom. zainab is giving them a benefit of the doubt. if she continues to defend them after finding out the truth, then she is an utter moron. but right now, am giving her a bit of a pass -- she is swept up in the feeling that her brother got really sick and so has gone back to her childhood feels.

Originally posted by: mango.falooda

can someone explain to me the significance of rukhsati and how it works. googled it but am not sure I understand it at all. is it a big formality? or something small? does it mean that the wedding is not fully valid if this function does not happen? if the rukhsati does not happen, does it mean shehroze and ushna are only partially married? what about consumation of marriage? is it related ot this function or has no bearing at all? what exactly are the implications and fallbacks if this function does not happen for these two at this point?

Even I want to know. As much as I have understood, it is similar to Bidaai in Hindus. I had watched a serial based on Hindu tradition where the father in law denies to accept the girl in his house even after the marriage is done. So I think, it is very much similar to Bidaai of Hindu tradition. Until it is done, the girl will be a married woman but cannot consummate. But, someone from Muslim background can tell about it better.

Originally posted by: _NINA_

And when he went at ushna's university 🥴