Originally posted by: hakanturkey
How many Sadafs are there in this drama?
- Student Sadaf
- Sadistic Sadaf, who rejected Amaar and told him to die
- Traumatized Sadaf, who was shattered by illness and death
- Sellout Sadaf, who tried to sell herself to Bilal
- Heartless Sadaf, who rejected Bilal
- Cheap Sadaf, who married Amaar
- Now divorced Sadaf
Friends, what kind of character development is this?
Bilal is in love with Mirza Sahab’s daughter, but that girl doesn’t exist anymore. She’s gone. The real question is:
Can Sadaf ever become Mirza Sahab’s daughter again?
To be with Bilal, she has to become Mirza’s daughter again.
Jokes aside, the Sadaf Bilal fell in love with—the one in his heart and mind—is completely different from the real Sadaf now.
I think that's what scares Bilal and why he keeps his distance from her.
Bilal is in love with an idealized image of Sadaf who is Mirza's daughter, whose name he is forbidden to utter when drunk. Now think what names or words are we forbidden to utter when drunk or in state of impurity? It's usually prayers, duas, sacred holy verses. The writer is implying that Bilal has put Sadaf on such a high pedestal where she is some sacred and holy being to him. His love for her is that of ibadat (worship). The lines he utters in dinner date that his love does not need her physical presence is the kind of love associated with love of God or ishq e haqiqi, where one loves God in full faith without seeing Him or knowing Him. Bilal thinks Sadaf is so sacred and above it all that even when she tries to sell herself for 8 crore he does not think it is a mark on her morals or her character. So Bilal is in love with an idealized version of Sadaf he puts on a pedestal but real Sadaf is full of flaws and grey shades and not as morally upright or holy as Bilal projects her to be. In fact she is as opposite to Mirza Naamdar as possible.
But writer is not interested in exploring what happens when reality does not meet ideal. This reminds me of a ptv drama Shehr e Zaat which was about making idols out of those we love. Mahira plays an art student who makes the sculpture of her ideal man. She one day meets a man who looks like her ideal man and she marries him, ignoring any red flags cktr flaws or incompatibilities. She is shattered when she realizes that in terms of character, morals, attitudes, this guy she idealized /idolized is nothing like the ideal man she had put on a pedestal in her head. The core lesson for her was to never make a human beinga center of your existenxe and to be obsessed with them to the point of worshipping.