THE WEEK THAT WAS

Deewangi | Geo TV, Wednesdays 8.00pm

So riled up was cousin Narmeen (Zoya Nasir) at her rejection by Sultan (Danish Taimoor), and his upcoming wedding, that she pleads to her father, who is also Sultan’s uncle, Mujaddid Durrani (Mehmood Aslam), to do whatever is in his might to stop the wedding. Hence a badly directed kidnapping takes place when Nageen (Hiba Bukhari), bedecked in gold and bridal finery exits the beauty salon, crosses the road all by herself and seats herself in a SUV to find out that the man looking out of the SUV window is not Sultan but her kidnapper. Seriously, which bride all decked up gallivants on to the street by herself? It is mayhem everywhere with the bride kidnapped and Sultan fallen completely silent. Will he reject the kidnapped bride or get to the bottom of the matter?

Ehd-i-Wafa | Hum TV, Sundays 8.00pm

Having come a long way in their lives, the four friends Shahzain (Osman Khalid Butt), Shehryar (Ahmed Ali Akbar), Saad (Ahad Raza Mir) and Shariq (Wahaj Ali) enjoy a reunion as Saad gets married to Dua (Alizeh Shah) after a sweet romance. But why was the couple shown dressed in army uniforms on their wedding? Knowing the present climate of copping out characters in our dramas to make the viewers cry and notch up ratings, Shahzain’s political enmities may cost him his life, while another death looms on us as Saad is sent on a mission to Kashmir.

What To Watch Out FoR

Jhooti | ARY, Saturdays 8.00pm

Iqra Aziz is smooth in her role as the cunning, two-faced Nimra who marries shopkeeper Nasir (Ahmed Ali Butt) to juice all the money and property out of him. While maintaining an angelic demeanour, this bahu from hell wreaks havoc at her in-laws’ house. Not only does Nimra lock the groom out on the wedding night and feign a gentle disappointment as to why her new husband didn’t enter the bedroom all night, she steals wads of cash from his wallet and her mother-in-law’s jewellery, shatters the new LED that Nasir buys her so that he can buy her a bigger one, and smashes crockery just for kicks. For more fun, she blames everything on strange happenings in the house. So far, Ali Moeen’s story, directed by Syed Ramish Rizvi, is rollicking.

Published in Dawn, ICON, February 23rd, 2020