Originally posted by: Stormborn01
Respectfully disagree. Burhan is not owed anything just because he loves a girl. It’s the girl’s choice to make and as per this story she sacrificed her happiness to ensure her mother’s future. For her mother she can sacrifice Burhan because she is her #1. And for that reason she DID give him the respect by NOT leading him on, because she knew they had no future. Would you rather she have confessed her feelings, spelled it outright and then ditched him. She handled it all with a lot of grace and foresight. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t love him. She does but she wasn’t in a position to encourage his feelings or her own because ultimately, they couldn’t be together.
Story telling is more than taking words at surface value. You have to read between the lines, understand character motivations and gauge performances. And even IF you want to take exact dialogues Burhan himself has called out Nashwa many times for her obvious feelings for him. Also the fact that the director constantly shows Nashwa thinking about Burhan. To cast these aside because Nashwa isn’t saying she loves him outright is doing a disservice to the story. Es se zyada obvious ho nahi sakta
the expectations you’re having from her is when a relationship starts. Yahan tou Nashwa is cutting it in the bud before it even happens. This is reiterated by Asim keh how can you expect anything when she never made any promises? It was wise advice. Sometimes feelings or no feelings, someone’s choice needs to be respected. Just because Burhan is a great guy (which Nashwa knows he is) he’s not automatically owed reciprocation by the heroine anyway.
Jab We Met main there’s a very cute scene where the guy knows the girl doesn’t love him back but he tells the girl that my feelings are MY problem, you shouldn’t worry about them, you do your thing.
It’s not love where you feel entitled to be loved back by the object of your affection. There shouldn’t be that sense of ownership. But decisions and choices should be respected especially if sacrifices are made for something important - like in this case, securing Bisma and Bakhtiyar’s threat which made Nashwa marry Ammar.
It’s obvious there are lingering feelings but she’s in a situation where she has no choice but to continue her marriage. She is scared for harm to befall her mother.
I really don’t think Beenish and Burhan are anywhere in the cards in this story. Too random
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