Read Aks. I understand how you felt, Mash and Farah...hmmm...we thought all the connections were TOO obviously similar so that's why it couldn't be the answer but that was all it was...the connections really were all there, they were what quite literally connected the 'stories' together. What doesn't sit right with me is the convenient name switches...why in the world does Chirya need three names...do bante hain, a nickname and a given name, yes...but throwing another one into the mix...and then Aibak Sherdil...that's a little too much, yaar...even his WIFE calls him by his second name...heck, she has a nickname made out of his second name of all things...like Farah said, somehow everyone used to call him Aibak when he was young but no one now? That's my biggest gripe, the name switcheroo on which this entire plot was basically set. Also lots of suspension of disbelief about the fact that Sherdil could never recognize Aks...chalo, woh toh phir bhi sahi hai...but Aibak saw Fatima...and by that time they were in college...neither your appearance nor demeanour change so revolutionarily between college and university or post-graduate education that you can't recognize a person. By the time you're in college...16/17, I'm guessing...a majority of your appearance has already been solidified at that point and it changes little in progression there on in. Then the fact that Fatima
stood out to Aibak in the debate competition because she was supposed to be the best...it's not like he only saw her in passing...he (Aibak Sherdil) should have remembered her when he saw her picture with an interview in a magazine the first time after she topped the CSS results which was only a few years later after the competition...at most 6 or 7 years. Anyways...
This was supposed to be like a vindication, 'victory' episode for Chirya...but more than anything it felt sadistic, sad to me in its underlying nature...I didn't find myself thinking ke wow, look at where Chirya made it to, what she did for herself...I felt more like Chirya ne apni poori zindagi ka sarmaya, outlook iss cheez ko bana diya, ke uske andar kitna venom hoga...how damaged a person she REALLY is behind the facade of an unparalleled officer, how dark and sad a place her mind is because all her purposes end at the very place where her miseries began. It is like the low after revenge...you are supposed to feel like you've finally been given justice to, but you realize that you still don't have or can get back what you lost...vengeance of any sort, be it against a person, a system, time or destiny ends in a dark, lost place because it's spirit is not to set you free...it only leaves you with a hollow purposelessness once it comes to a completion because there's nothing beyond it for which you've worked, hoped, planned, thought. Aks pretends to be put-together...but how haunted she must be by her demons to make something so bleak, so agonizing the way of her thinking, viewing the world, deciding what to be in it and then doing the duniya do chaar do become that...it is an intensely magnanimous, dark place of emotion.
How garbage were Mrs. Sultan and Aibak Sultan...I just knew it that there was something fishy about that woman's behaviour and how she'd let her son roam around with Fatima...kaise kaise log hote hain duniya mein...banda kabhi kabhi padh dekh ke dangg reh jaata hai...no words.
Loved Khairdeen's 'Main tumhare liye kuch bhi baech doonga, Chirya.' You know it comes from the very core of this man's being. He is still that character for me. Nothing but respect for an attitude like that...he'll fall a million times, and he'll get up with wounds, but never with spite. What a character...nothing out of ordinary, yet still extraordinary...
Want to know what it is that Sherdil wants Aks not to do...it's definitely that second thing she mentioned to Khairdeen, which only she knows. Funny how she came across as so normal, open towards Sherdil in her own POV at the end, as if she hadn't done a thing...there's still three episodes left, and I think there's still a twist somewhere in there. [A crazy thought did occur to me that maybe Aks herself is the villain who looks like a hero...but why in the world that would be...nonsense...]
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