Now I would like to clarify that I am not condoning what Sahir is doing, especially the threat of setting the outhouse on fire ... though I feel the family is not in the outhouse and it is an empty threat... but either which way it is too much... very OTT and really pushes the envelope too far as far as Sahir's character goes. This threat really is scraping the bottom of the barrel and hopefully the CVs don't make him do anything worse.
But despite all this ... I understand the character. Maybe the writer has fleshed it out better than Arzoo n Zaki's or maybe HC is bringing his own talent and interpretation to the table... but I understand Sahir's motives. He is dark... he has in the last 7 years got used to having his way... he has suppressed his gentler self for so long that it is almost easy for him to out-think and manipulate the situation and people.
[Or maybe it is me... I have always liked the darker, twisted characters more... in fiction of course. And that is the point of fiction in my humble opinion. To be able to enjoy reading, watching and even enacting characters who we would never be or never want to be like in real life.]
Anyways, the point is that while I would normally feel bad for someone in Zaki's position, (and please I am only talking about characters here and not the actors... so none of this is personal) in this case I don't! I felt a twinge of sadness when I saw him sitting all alone and drinking after the SaaZ nikaah. But that was it! Why? Cause there is something amiss. That is the feeling I get. His rush to woo and propose and get married to Arzoo smacks of something underhand.
Is he really Sam's baby's father? I don't know. Doubt if the CVs know either. Is Sam really preggers? Again I don't know. But the way the character is being played out I feel the CVs are setting Zaki up to have quite a few hidden layers too and we will see over the coming episodes that he is not as open and honest as he is portraying himself to be.
Sahir on the other has never ever claimed to be an open book. So for me not only does he become the more interesting character but also the hero [But note to CVs - don't make him do anymore psychobaaz stuff please... much as I love Sahir, I can't justify the fire threat kind of stuff even to my dark-lord-loving-self].
Hopefully now that the nikaah is done, the CVs will not make him a tame, beeghi billi. I hope he continues to be the Sahir we all have got to know but without the psycho behaviour. I hope he continues to be clever and astute and capable of reading the situation and people. I hope he continues to have attitude. But yes, I also hope he learns to trust and express his love for Arzoo and re-learns to be happy.
Arzoo as a character is disappointing because she is not being explored properly by the writers and they are so inconsistent with her that you could make a fishing net with the loopholes available in her characterization. She is supposed to be self-respecting, but all her actions scream otherwise. She doesn't believe money is everything, but she is happily embracing Sahir's value point regarding love and money... for what?... to prove Sahir wrong!? How? By becoming like him! So how are you any different from him then... why judge him at all.
One can say that she is currently thinking in a cold manner, and due to her hatred she is only thinking from one point of view. Unfortunately her character has only been thinking from her POV from the beginning. Like I said no empathy! Cause if Sahir made Arzoo this... what made Sahir like this. I realise this is not a question Arzoo can ask off herself right now in her extremely distressed state, but it is the question she set out to find the answer to all those days ago when she moved in to NH. Arzoo has always been quick to judge and jump to conclusions. Black and white are her colours. No grey. And Sahir is all grey.
It doesn't make Arzoo wrong. Almost all girls in her position may run scared of the Sahir in their lives... but most girls hopefully will quit on understanding a guy after they have made decent effort at understanding him. Arzoo never made the effort except for asking once and then getting back on her high horse when he rebuffed her. She is also as egoistic as he is. But while we get to see him grappling with his own faults, we never see any self doubts or questioning in her.
So I find it difficult to empathize with her. I understand some of her decisions, while the rest (to stay on in NH, to agree to marry Zaki and then to marry Sahir) are all going over my head. But while I may understand her, I feel she is also responsible for her current situation. She doesn't practice what she preaches.
I am not saying the above flaws in Arzoo and Zaki, justifies Sahir manipulating the situation to marry Arzoo; cause who is he to decide whether Zaki's love is real or just a monumental infatuation or whether Arzoo will be happy or not with Zaki.
But, that is Sahir's character. Arzoo is his and he is not the sacrificing kind... THANK YOU GOD! I hate these Nirupa Roy type martyrs who are always bloody sacrificing and causing more confusion. Sahir is willing to do all that is required to hang on to his lady love. And he feels he is justified cause he knows that she loves him... no matter how mad she is at him right now... he is confident that he will be able to eventually get through to her. And that confidence is also a hallmark of Sahir.
His chink in the armour till date has been his waada. But now slowly, I see Arzoo becoming his weakness. And I think they will truly become Humsafars when they become each other's strengths.
PS1: This thought struck me the other day - Will the CD about the factory fire end up in Zaki's hand and will he use it against Sahir?
PS2: Nausheen should get the worst mother award. Alvira, Zara and Myra all resembled ostriches yesterday... but Nausheen was in a league of her own. She is like a horse with blinkers on!
Anupamaa
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