THE WEEK THAT WAS

Mohini Mansion Ki Cindrellayein | Bol TV,
Mondays 8.00pm

Fashih Bari Khan’s lively dark comedy wrapped up abruptly amidst rumours of budget issues with ‘to be continued’ flashing at the end of the last episode.

Wicked first wife Daro Maasi (Feryal Gauhar)’s plan to wed her husband to a young girl for financial gains backfires as Zangu (Qavi Khan) rapidly recuperates with his new wife. Thrice-divorced Azra (Saima Saleem) gets ready to marry once again. Billi (Hina Shahid) waits for her crush Uzair (Sardar Nabeel) to return while the story reverts from flashback of the ’90s to the present day where Uzair completes a part of his book on the Cinderellas of Mohini Mansion.

Do Bol | ARY, Tuesdays 8.00-10.00pm

The cluttered story depicts a proud and pompous family with arrogant patriarch Iqbal Husain (Mehmood Aslam), who marries of his daughter Gaitiara (Hira Mani) to Badar (Affan Waheed), the driver-cum-domestic help just because they were seen together at the railway station — seriously?

Gaitiara is not allowed to defend herself, nor does she divulge the reality that she was actually planning to run off with cousin Sameer (Haroon Shahid) because earlier the family was marrying her off to Zafar (Haris Waheed), an unsavoury cousin. Meanwhile Gaitiara continues to behave like a brat with her husband and in-laws. Being a Sarwat Nazir screenplay, there is some hope that there is more to the story than complicated relations and a run-of-the-mill love triangle in double episodes.

WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

Inkaar | Hum TV, Mondays 8.00pm

Rich boy Shayan Malik (Sami Khan at his psychotic best) is not only madly in love with Hajra (Yumna Zaidi), a halwai’s daughter, her but he also stalks her. She distantly remembers him from the university but due to pressure and circumstances, she agrees to marry him.

As the story goes into flashback, she makes the mistake of telling him about what happened between her and an MNA’s son Rehan Chaudhry (Imran Ashraf making a showstopper entry in the third episode), because of whom she had had to leave university.

Published in Dawn, ICON, March 31st, 2019