Zindagi Gulzar hai episode 17 review

Sarah Says:

Sadaf, I SO agree on so many fronts with your review. Thank you!
I agree about Fawad's confident swagger, and then the stark humility and sincerity he showed with both Rafia and Sidra and later Kashaf. More often than not I can relate to Kashaf's cynicism towards men, I myself am jaded towards them, I want to high five her so many times! I love that everything 'could' have been a calculated move on his part and she was poised to recoil but the move with the hot tea was purely instinctive and it was this that which finally broke through her resolve. Brilliantly done.

This episode was so lovely. As much as I agree that this show slowed to a trickle and felt laboured, there are apparent small flaws and that there is a presence of characters we would be glad to see the back of; this is still a better show than Humsafar. I'm REALLY sorry to resurrect the passe debate here, but I have been simply bursting to say this since this show began. Humsafar had nice couple interaction, some nice, heart-fluttering moments but ultimately it followed all the fundamental tropes of a sickening Star Plus saga, it was just packaged in a much more classier, palatable package. Zindagi Gulzar Hai, however flawed recalls fragments of Hallmark 80s-90s PTV drama replete with its social commentary and iron-willed women, with Fawad Khan's Zaroon Junaid bringing this thing bang up to date, because there's no denying it, this current era of Pakistani Serials are OWNED by the iconic Fawad. And I must say MashaAllah, I wouldn't want to jinx him. LOL.
And I must stop to comment on Sanam Saeed, previously I liked her in her past stints whether modeling or in ABC's Favourite Dream music video, providing backing vocals at the Coke Studio, her supporting roles in Mata e Jaan, Mera Naseeb but this was a breakthrough for her. We have seen her go from strength to strength, I adore this actress and will continue to root for her in her future projects - but for now I still have episodes of ZGH to watch!