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Oh these beautiful girls!
Cinema for some years has primarily become a source of mindless entertainment. TV is still trying to maintain a balance between information and entertainment thus dishing infotainment to the viewers. Situational comedies, sitcoms for most, have gradually become the order of the day.
After Family Front’s success and split of Samina Ahmed and Dr Younus Butt’s dream team, both have come up with individual offerings. While Samina Ahmed has undertaken three new projects, Dr Younus Butt has come up with Misfit that aspires to take humour a step further. This time, he has not limited himself to a location, a set of characters, or relations. Misfit, being aired on Prime Entertainment currently, was primarily the story of a group of four girls living in a women working’s hostel. Veena Malik plays the character of an energetic and restless girl who needs excitement and thrills all the time. If she cannot get some, she would go to any extent to create some. Erum Hassan plays an introvert, plain girl who works in a marriage bureau but irony of it all is that she is unable to get married! Shazia Afgan plays the sole married woman. Ayesha Sana was the new entrant in the hostel who fails to get admission owing to a lack of vacancy. The three stooges take it upon themselves to get her in and thus eliminate her every chance through their insipid and idiotic plans. In one of series Javed Sheikh plays a man who wants to write a book on plight of women working. Since the warden (Saba Hameed) is a strict administrator, he cannot get in. Therefore he has to conceal his identity and enter the hostel disguised as a burqa clad woman! Thus the hilarious moments occurs.
Misfit added some new characters to its team such as Fouzia Chaudhry, Saira Arshad, Rabi, Shaista Jabeen and Bunty brilliantly played by Kushmain. Shaista won hearts instantly due to her striking portrayal of a simple nurse who has yet to acclimatize to the wayward ways of urban life.
The programme’s entire stock cast consists of females. The only exception is the inherently simpleton but struggling servant played hilariously by Naseem Vicky. He adds the spark to every scene he appears in. Members of the stock cast appear and disappear off and on since every episode presents a new challenge and a new chance to the women to use their gray cells. Variation in cast also adds freshness, and dimension to each episode since the viewers never know who would be in trouble and over what! Although everyone is equally adequate and uproarious in his or her character, Bunty (Kushmain) would be the only star that wins hands down because of her charming, adorable, and unsullied performance.
The writer has added yet another component to the sitcoms by introducing a new perception of keeping women at the forefront and utilizing them to tickle our funny bones. While extolling his efforts and contributions, one hopes the able doctor finds an antidote to repeating and rehashing his situations, one-liners, and stories in his simultaneously ongoing sitcoms making them stale and boring for the viewer.
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