The Kashaf Murtaza in Me!!

After all these years of watching idealistic ladies on TV, silently weeping at the injustice done to them and continuously taking up challenges of setting everything right so miraculously, and having so high ideals about the concept of marriage, I finally find a show!!!

A lead protagonist who I can relate to!!

One who does not "pose" facing difficulties with a smile, but cribs without hesitation!

One who has no fairytale dreams or a blind belief that some divine power will set things for her, instead is realistic enough to know that she is a girl and her effort is just not enough, but she hasno choice!

One who does not consider a successful marriage as the ultimate destination, but thinks that she has better work to do than risk her time and life in playing the gamble whether she gets roses in life or thorns.

She has no qualms in feeling jealous of the rich, craves for going to college in a luxurious car and cribs about having to change 2 buses to reach college!!


Every scene that I watched Sanam enact the character of Kashaf, I found her repeat exactly the same lines I've been muttering when I went to college and when I went about looking for a job, and so convincingly!

The emotions were so natural breaking stereotypes where the female lead stands high inspite of difficulties. It was shown that she is perfectly human, can get pissed off at bad days, be pessimistic about her poverty as well as enjoy her victory and spend a little too much to pamper herself! No idealism, pure realism

Thanks CVs for giving us such a realistic approach towards life!! I am glad to have this serial aired on Indian TV and hope Indian audiences will like and relate to it as much as I did 👏

welcome to the forum .nice to see you here, yes I can relate to kashaf in many ways, she is a simple girl with flaws not a superwoman like daily soap heroines. that is the special characteristic of kashaf's character.

welcome to the forum .nice to see you here, yes I can relate to kashaf in many ways, she is a simple girl with flaws not a superwoman like daily soap heroines, yet a fighter who fights for her and her family's basic rights like her mom. that is the special characteristic of kashaf's character.

Thanks dear!

I completely agree.

Agreed to the post above and the TM.

Nice post..complelty agree wid u.

Lovely post and you echoed my thoughts actually. When I first saw the series on youtube thanks to a friend recommendation, the thing which caught my eye was the character sketch of both the protagonists. Both are flawed individuals with their own set of principles, shortcomings and attitude towards life. Fe of the scenes and Kashaf reaction made me so dumbstruck as I said god this is me, I do that so often. She was not lecturing queen and preaching all the time like indian serial heroines. Her life was not perfect and she complained about it but along with that she worked hard too to reach her goals. Moreover I l8ved her liberated thought that woman does not need a husband to shower her with luxuries, you can do it for yourself too. She was bitter, she was opinionated, she was strong yet emotinally vuknerable at every step who craved for love and bel8nging, she was normal human being and thats why she was so relatble. Unlike indian serial bahus who do not have any other ambition after getting married and only know how to interfere in other people business and keep lecturing all.

I totally relate to Kashaf

i cannot relate to kashaf as i quite different but as much i saw her in 4 epis, m loving her character...as u said very much realistic...