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Necessary Necessary. All those dialogues I had read long ago took on a life of their own— every line from Ashar felt like a whiplash.
After the novel, I had always wondered about what had happened to Fareeda, and the tender moment between the mother and son was a perfect wrap up to that thread. Last night I had wondered what the last scene would look like — would it be worthy of drawing the curtains on this epic serial?
And, YES! All ghosts of the past had finally been laid to rest — a new safar had begun. Story-wise all loose ends were beautifully tied up.
Every shot was meaningful and justified its being there in the finale. The editing was very crisply done and the OST placement was beautifully accomplished. The final scene, for me, has to be one of the best last scenes in Pakistan TV drama history. Asher and Khirad are married in a rush and with a simple Nikah due to Maimona's failing health. She dies soon after, leaving Khirad very depressed and lonely. Asher and Khirad begin their marriage on a very somber note, where both of them feel that they have been included into each others lives without consent and are being enforced on each other.
None of them are happy about the union, however Asher promises Khirad that he will try his best to make her feel comfortable and this marriage work even though he knows that it will take them a long period of time to come to an understanding.
Later on, however, they both begin falling in love with each other, and Asher believes it is her innocence, simplicity, and purity of heart that attracts him to her, saying that she's unlike any other girl he's ever come across.
Even as Sara pretends to befriend Khirad and humiliates her in front of her friends, Asher rebukes Sara for her cruelty and tells Khirad that she is the most perfect, beautiful girl he could have ever asked for. He tells her that people normally like each other, love each other, and then marry. But with them, it was the opposite. He tells her he loves her, and she loves him too, and that he thanks God every day that he agreed to the wedding. Soon, Baseerat becomes very sick, and while he's in the hospital, he warns his son against hurting Khirad, saying that she's very innocent by nature and doesn't know the realities of this world or the people in it.
He asks him to treat her with constant love and kindess and to always forgive her for anything she might ever do. Asher, already in love with his new wife, agrees. Baseerat later dies in his sleep. While Sara pretends to befriend Khirad, she falsely tells Khirad that Asher makes fun of housewives by referring to them as "desperate housewives" in order to make her feel more embarrassed. Already well-educated with a BSC in physics and mathematics, Khirad decides to enroll in graduate studies to further her math skills in order to impress Asher and reach more to his standards.
There, she meets Khizar, Sara's paternal cousin who has strong feelings towards Sara. Still, Sara expresses no feelings for Khizar and is still not over Asher.
When Khizar starts to come to Asher and Khirad's house, he praises Khirad for how smart and beautiful she is, and Asher starts to get irritated and slightly jealous. Unbeknownst to Asher, Khirad is pregnant and can't wait to tell him this great news. Meanwhile, Farida, Zareena, and Sara come up with a plan to separate Khirad and her husband.
Farida plans on paying large sums of money to Khizar for him to be able to study abroad as well as have him marry Sara if he can convince Asher that he and Khirad are secretly engaged in an extramarital affair. Sara lies to Khizar by telling him that she'll marry him when he returns from his abroad studying. The scheme goes into action before Khirad could tell Asher she was pregnant , and Asher sees what falsely appears to be Khirad and Khizar alone in his apartment.
He storms off angry. When Khirad later asks Farida why she did this, she responds that she would never allow a public school teacher's daughter to be her daughter-in-law. She goes on to say that Khirad isn't even fit to be the house's servant. Khirad tries to protest and calls Khizar, who falsely keeps insisting that she is in an affair with him.
However, Farida backs Khizar's lies and kicks Khirad out of the house before Asher has a chance to speak with her. Before leaving, she quickly manages to write a note for Asher and leaves it with a servant. Although Asher returns expecting to be able to speak with Khirad to hear her explanation, his mother lies and says that she and Khizar have already eloped together. Heartbroken and alone, Khirad takes refuge at the house of her mother's old friend, Batul Khala, in Hyderabad, Pakistan.
Throughout her time there, she calls Asher at his cell phone and his office, but he promptly hangs up whenever he finds out it is Khirad calling.
Believing his mother's story that Khirad eloped with Khizar, he says he no longer knows anyone named Khirad. After a few months, Khirad goes into labor and calls Asher one last time.
Again he hangs up, and she prematurely gives birth to a baby girl whom she names Hareem. While in the small clinic with her newborn baby, Khirad vows that even on the Day of Judgment in front of Allah, she won't forgive Asher for what he did.
Her desperate attempts to reach out to Asher have now turned to heartfelt anger and possibly hatred. Four years pass and Khirad learns that her daughter is a patient of congenital heart disease, and needs immediate open heart surgery. Since she knows she will not be able to afford Hareem's treatment, Khirad hesitantly pays a visit to her husband and tells him about the current situation.
She comes back a changed woman, one with more power and anger than she had before. At first, he doesn't react and refuses to help, but later, as he realizes his sudden love for the daughter he had never met, decides to treat Hareem. Asher brings his wife and four-year-old child to his house, but does not reveal this to Sara, Farida, or Zareena.
In addition, she states that she's only there for her daughter's treatment and no longer cares about being with Asher, and it is because of this that she hasn't told him the realities of what his mother did to her four years earlier. After making comments that angered Asher, she leaves for home, agitated and angered.
She calls Farida. Sara tells Farida that Khirad has returned. Farida quickly returns to Pakistan from a conference in the United States and explains to Khirad that she can easily throw her and her daughter back on the streets again. She fears Khirad will tell Asher everything and that she's trying to be apart of his life again. No longer afraid of her mother-in-law, Khirad tells her to do as she pleases, as she is only there for her daughter's care and no longer cares for the Hussain family.
She says, "I don't want anything to do with your son or your mansion I don't even see your son as being worth talking to. And seeing her step out in the rain and dance all her worries away put a spell not only on Ashar but everyone watching the episode, as well!
Admit it, the moment Khirad and Ashar got all mushy onscreen, your heart thumped with excitement. Because you adored the good-looking couple, the gradual increase in the intensity of their feelings for each other and the way Ashar complimented Khirad.
And Naveen completely did justice to her role. Not only were Pakistanis addicted, the drama was also aired in India and many other parts of the world and was loved just as much.
How can we go without crediting the person whose mind and pen combined to create possibly the greatest modern romance in this part of the world? Farhat Ishtiaq has many other works to her credit and she is, without a doubt, our modern day Pakistani Jane Austen. Dare we say that this love story owes as much to Fawad Khan as he does to it, for putting him on the map and hearts of desi girls in every corner of the world!
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