Qubool Hai ' Reality ' Escapism ' Memory ' R. E. M. ' Losing My Religion!
When we watch a show, we usually like the aspects of it that are fun filled, romantic. We rarely want to see what is unpalatable for e.g. revenge, hatred, duplicity or even jealousy. While we face these in our life (though we wish that we all have a picture perfect life, it is still not a movie). While we try to find some sort of escapism in Television shows or movies, we do see some parallels in our life with what we see on TV.
Here are some parallels, we see in Qubool Hai. Tell us if you find any relation in your life.
Wanting to forget
Zoya Farooqui (Surbhi Jyoti) has run away from the reality that she saw. Tanveer (Amrapali Gupta) and Asad Ahmed Khan (Karan Singh Grover) have supposedly betrayed Zoya with their act. She wants to forget, however, memory is a thorn (we actually wanted to use a more harsh word, but we are trying to mind our language) that keeps pricking at the wrongest moment. She has found refuge in an orphanage and is trying to sweep the memories clean.
On the other hand we have Humeira Siddiqui (Ketki Kadam), who also has shunned her reality. Reality of her fianc not being in love with her. She was going away and met with an accident. And now she is someone else. Is this a memory loss or willful attempt at wanting to forget her reality of a love-less marriage. Is that the reason she has become a woman who is perhaps loved by her husband as that is her eternal wish?
Asad Ahmed Khan (Karan Singh Grover) had faced his reality which he has been trying to run away from for last 17 years. He wants to forget that he has a father and fears relationships just because he believes he is chip off the old block. And, lord behold, he "proved" that he is. Betrayal seems to be part of his DNA. And Dilshaad Ahmed Khan (Shalini Kapoor) showed him the mirror.
We want to know, if there was something that you would want to forget, the one memory that you would want flush out of your brain, what would it be? And will it bring peace to you? One can run away from things, people, places, can one run away from oneself?
In Qubool Hai, each character wants to not face their reality. There is Gaffur Ahmed Siddiqui (Tej Sapru) who wants to forget his reality of having had an illicit affair and fathered a child out of wedlock (at least that what we see in the story so far). His way of escaping that reality is find solace in religious books, rituals and charity.
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