Originally posted by: mango.falooda
it feels like the missing ingredient to the change of shehroze was also zainab. in some ways, zunaisha was needed for naima to realize how obsessive shehroze had become to the point that he was not having a normal life. because he felt guilty that he wasn't there when naima had a stroke, he was over controlling and he felt constantly frustrated by the care given by servants and nurses. to be fair, you need someone to supervise them when you have a patient at home. then it works out better. he had to manage both office and home and he was all the time popping in. so he didn't have a personal life and he expected zunaisha to do the same.
zunaisha wasn't wrong in wanting care, concern and attention. that was why naima didn't feel upset with zunaisha but understood why zunaisha was frustrated. however, shehroze wouldn't give time to the relationship at all and zunaisha did make the right call to cut it off.
it was a wake up call to naima and wahab that things had to change. when wahab fell sick, naima felt really helpless and felt the way forward was not a daughter-in-law but a second wife who can step in and do what she is unable to do. shehroze felt naima was being unrealistic but naima was very shrewd - she didn't randomly pick any woman but assessed zainab to be the right fit for their house.
naima was spot on in her judgement and slowly naima and zainab have developed a real friendship. zainab also promised wahab that she would take care of naima's health. by doing so, she has removed much of the tension that shehroze had.
it took him time to get over his doubts and concerns that zainab and ushna might do something behind his back, or that wahab would be blind to naima and her needs. instead, by seeing that parents have been able to balance their life and the situation is working means that shehroze has been slowly easing off from his over hovering of naima. that is why he stopped coming in as much to see her because he could see that she was well taken care. not just physically but she had emotional company. she had been lonely and he recognized that but he wasn't able to do much for her. zainab and ushna met the need for friendship, chatter, liveliness and filling up this empty house.
this allows shehoze to have his own me time which he had been slowly using. he didn't feel the need to keep popping in to check on naima. before, naima was stuck at home all the time because of her disability but now naima and zainab are even stepping out together to the movie. because he doesn't have to feel guilty or concerned that naima is alone at home, he is free to go on this date with ushna and enjoy it to his heart's content -- knowing that naima is having fun on her own and is well taken care of with zainab.
Obviously it's because of Zainab's presence they are able to live their married life. If Zainab wasn't there they will going round and round around Naima's room. But again, Ushna would have never agreed for marriage if Zainab wasn't there. I wasn't talking about house dynamic... I was talking about the feelings which a man has for a woman. He was totally emotionless with Zunaisha. It looked like her presence really didn't matter to him. He didn't even take one day to get over with broken engagement and it really didn't bother him that she has given commitment to someone else. They were friends since long and everything was over between them like there was genuinely nothing between them.
With Ushna, he had literally started to take interest from very next day his mom told him that they were just thinking to get them married. Out of blue, Sufiyan was his biggest enemy. He has used Zainab as per his convince to get control on Ushna as it was not possible to control her directly. When Ushna told him very clearly that she wasn't interested in getting married with him, still he was acting like marriage was fixed and she was his fiance. If this was a game, even Shehroz has not played it fair. He has created scenes at home for every little thing to indirectly tell Zainab to warn her not to even think about Sufiyan.
The difference is that- Zunaisha was allowed to dump him, but Ushna wasn't allowed to think to dump him.
