One scene this drama should definitely have shown - not sure if it got lost in the edit - was Shahnawaz and his mom actually plotting or her plotting and him listening. There’s so much fill in the blank one has to do to try to make sense of Shahnawaz now. Because for one thing we literally HEARD his inner monologues of developing feelings for Mehru - we know he loves her. But then for the betrayal to make sense, they could have added a scene of the mom and son when they planned all this. The conflict now would make so much more sense. And when they planned this, what was Shahnawaz’s frame of mind? How did HE feel? Some conflict of emotion maybe. Anything. Feels like a missed opportunity.
I really hope it got lost in the edit because otherwise this just seems like a cop out by the writer just for the wedding night shock value scene. There’s no actual basis for this shown. Just audience filling in the blanks. 
Ali would have been so good in such a scene. He’s doing well showing his conflicting emotions now so back then when this plan was all plotted out, it would have been interesting to see. 
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