Originally posted by: Ctrl-Alt-Del
You're proving my point. Samiya isn't a progressive character and her storyline isn't progressive as well. She has willingly taken the task of repairing a flawed person. I never said that she's doing it to get Saif's love or to stand up for her. She's doing it to make her marriage work, just like most of our regressive dramas. You aren't watching Tere Bina Mein Nahi, but in that drama, Tehniyyat's storyline is somewhat like Samiya's. So that's what I said in my first post, from where this entire discussion started, that a flawed husband, and wife patiently trying to make their marriage work is one of the favorite themes in our dramas these days.
She has already gotten married to him out of her own will when she had a choice to do otherwise. So the only thing she can do is give it a try. It's not like she is hopeful or she has some false expectations from saif. She is ready to walk out if she has to.
Also the story is more about men being in abusive relationship. Saif is a victim not a predator that samiya need to be saved from. He is all the time either with his mother or his gf. Only a third person that can get on his personal life can help him out. So samiya being married to him is the most convincing way for him to have someone in his life that respects him and show him the difference and make him see his worth. It's not like samiya is reparing a bad boy by baring all his zulam on her and hoping he will come around. She is being a means to someone's freedom from oppression. She isn't repairing a flawed human being but helping a guy realise he is in an abusive relationship.
Every storyline that had a closure in the drama ended up being having a positive outcome. Saif and samiya's story is only half way through. So it cannot be said not to be progressive.
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