Originally posted by: twerping
Hey cappa! What a delightful post you wrote...loved your breakdown of the emotional responses and the underlying reasons. especially what you said about Ayesha receiving from Sadia what she craved but never did get from her own mother.
I am just thinking the discussion in this thread is so rich and has so much depth. We should bring out a Companion book for Habs. 😆
And yessss...let us discuss the kitchen scene. I liked something the fuschia magazine review mentioned which is that even when Ayesha had gone to the dinner with Fahad, Basit had been slightly restless, though we see him brush it off. Still, he waits for her to return without changing.
I think the same restlessness stuck him in the kitchen scene. I don't want to call it jealousy or even insecurity at this moment. Perhaps he felt slightly left out. When Basit did come into the kitchen, he stood where Ayesha was standing. He put himself between Fahad and Ayesha. He never looked at Ayesha directly, but you just know he is tuned to her movements.
When Basit left the kitchen after Bano came, he sent a look in Fahad's direction. Initially, I had thought it was because he guessed something between Fahad and Bano but then I realised Basit does not have that great a sense of reading people's emotions. Fahad understands him far more than Basit understands Fahad. So that look must come from that same restlessness that had brought him to the kitchen in the first place.
Basit has certainly changed. He cares what Ayesha thinks of him now. Earlier in ep 15 when he had accused Ayesha of complaining about him to his mom, that had come out of a sense of jealousy perhaps of her growing attachment to his mother. And we know he has a natural insecurity when it comes to women. Initially he had tried to keep a distance between Ayesha and himself because of this. But even within that distance, we have seen how he himself is inching closer to her in different ways.
Funny thing is just when Basit has started caring what Ayesha thinks of him, Ayesha is genuinely angry at him. When Fahad comes to tell her to watch what she says to Basit, her face hardened. But as you said, even within her anger, there is concern for Basit.
Btw congrats on your new place. Hope your shifting went smoothly.
the way all your paragraphs have captured the smallest of emotions the director aka Fahd tried to show in the episode, especially the one where you are talking about Basit sending a look towards Fahd- aah I loved reading this piece.♥
i am genuinely concerned about the next week as it seems a complex triangle of relationships is about to be woven due to misunderstandings.

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