Released: 1995/96
Starring Firdos Jamal, Saba Parvaiz, Mehood Aslam, & Waseem Abbas.
I LOVED THIS PLAY MANNNN!!!! but I suspect it is not something that would be an
all around hit. It
has many technical glitches, but I still loved it. The story is based on an
urdu novel and the genius of it all is that it is not an adaptation...they did
not bastardize the novel to make it into a digestable play....it maintains the
novel's originality and invites one to think...it is not simple and
straightforward -a lot of mindwork involved- so don't watch it when you're tired or
are looking for a few laughs or thrills. It's more like a
stimulant...gives you a different kind of pleasure (TAKES U HIGHER!!!).
It's a very abstract story. Two apparently completely unrelated stories start
the play...Firdos Jamal is a lawyer and so is this "girl" (played by Faryal
Gauhar's sister), and they meet when they're students...and then obviously they
get married. On the other hand Saba Parvaiz is one
screwed up lady living in a village. Waseem Abbas comes as a bride-seeker, and they have an arranged marriage. Everything's fine & dandy at the beginning, but
we can't have THAT in a drama, so things start going
wrong...on both sides...the play is being narrated by mehmood aslam who is a
writer and is preparing a kind of a manuscript for his next novel...Firdos
Jamal is his old pal...how they get connected to the other couple is what you'll
have to see and find out:) There are just too many little things in the drama that a
review can't cover. Do
remember that it's not mass-entertainment we're talking about here, so get it
when your mind is at ease ( the drama will take care of that peace-of-mind
;) It's definitely one of a kind! WARNING: epitome of "slow!!"...if
you thought KAAL was slow you have another thing coming! -Ali