Episode starts with women informing Razia that the case is against her and it was filed by her 2nd daughter in law Noor. Razia leaves the chair for Suraiya, Suraiya sits in the chair of chairperson.
Noor is asked to explain her side of the story, Shaira stops Noor and pulls out a chair for Razia, wipes it with her jacket and asks Razia to sit in it. Suraiya intervenes saying that a criminal can't sit in the chair, Shaira stops Suraiya saying that Razia is an accuse not a criminal, and this is not a court where they can convict anyone of any crime.
Can't they? Court has a responsibility, court will listen to both sides and give a decision on merit but there's no accuse in public trial, there's a convict and a victim, conviction or victim hood depends upon preconceived notion of the person who is giving the verdict. If I hear about a domestic violence case, I immediately hate the man who did this because how can a woman lie about something like this when she knows what other women go through? We are not irresponsible, are we?
Noor starts with her testimony, she says that she has been tortured in her house since she got married to Azaan, she has evidence of it and Dilruba brings a white board with projector. Noor tells them about Azaan breaking the mirror, she lies that she was compared to Shaira during Mu dikhai, Azaan didn't eat her first rasoi and gave it to Billo Rani.
Azaan gets angry and asks Noor to stop lying, Shaira tries to stop him but he is out of control, Noor acts terrifies and asks Azaan not to be mad at her, Suraiya uses this as an opportunity to show how Azaan is a wrong man, Razia says that they are not only insulting Azaan but they are questioning Razia's values.
Woman in the forum says that it's not about the values she has imparted in Azaan, it is about nature of men, if he was a good man, he wouldn't have been in a polygamous relationship like his father. Razia loses her control and says that Azaan is not like his father, he didn't marry for his lust, he married for his love, he married to protect a woman's something I didn't understand, Razia announces that they will be leaving now as people here are more interested in a tamasha than justice. If Noor wants then she can take them to the court.
Shaira stops them, she says that she can't give them more ammunition than they already have to use against her family. Azaan and Razia sit down, Noor continues that Azaan humiliated her in the office in front of his staff too.
Women start questioning Razia and Shaira says that she will answer all the questions as she was promised that she will get a chance to reply.
Shaira says that Azaan didn't eat Noor's Sheer khurma but he tastes it, during Mu dikhai when everyone was waiting for Noor, Noor came down in her night suit. Suraiya intervenes saying that how is this wrong when Razia and Shaira do not cover their faces? Shaira replies that everyone is free to wear whatever they want to do, Razia has never put a restriction on them, Razia and Shaira do not cover their faces but they don't resort to cheapness like Noor. Anyway, they are talking about a ritual where covering face is important, how can there be MU dikhai, if Noor won't cover her face?
Shaira points to a lady sitting among the group of women, and says that she was there when it happened, is Shaira lying? The lady replies that Shaira is telling the truth, she was there and she is surprised that whatever happened in that ritual is being presented in this way..
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Shaira asks Noor to tell them under which circumstances Azaan married her, Noor asks Shaira not to open old wounds to which Shaira replies that Noor is doing this, not Shaira.
There was a survey in 2018, where India was ranked as the most dangerous place for women, it is of course matter of perception and depends on the basis of survey questions and data analysis but we can not shy away from accepting that crimes against women are rising exponentially in India. There has to be accountability among women that they do not abuse these laws which are there to help women who are victims of harassment and domestic violence
In this show, Noor tortured Shaira mentally and physically for days, that whole phase which forced Shaira into losing or giving up on her husband has been reduced to Noor taking advantage of Shaira's goodness, at least it is being acknowledged as wrong but sexual harassment on Azaan by Noor is being sidestepped as seduction, not keeping in mind that a man's respect and dignity is as important as a woman's respect and dignity.
When Khalid physically assaulted Noor, none had any expectations of decent behavior of Noor towards Khalid because it is not possible for a victim to be nice to her perpetrator, but expectations from Shazaan is that they have to help and respect a woman who has ruined their lives.
More than Shaira, Azaan is under radar because he is a man, a man should always respect women, can't we see them as two individuals where one is wrong and one is right? I wouldn't respect an individual like Noor, regardless of her gender
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