ZID

Zid is another serial that I love. It was telecasted on Hum TV on 26 December 2014. It is written by  Bee Gul and is produced by Momina Duraid and directed by Adnan Wali with the prime slot on Tuesday on the channel Hum TV. It casts Maya Ali, Ahsan Khan, Rabab Hashim, Imran Reerzada and Nausheen Shah as pivotal roles.

The drama is about modern marriage. It shows us different perspectives on marriage. Thought-provoking dialogues held up a mirror to our society and asked difficult questions that had no easy answers.

The story is about Saman who is stubborn. She does everything according to her own. Before she gets married to Omar, she breaks her engagement with two guys because of her stubborn nature. Her family was fed up. Although they were fed up with her, they convinced her to get married and finally agrees to marry with Omar. Before she gets married to him, she tells the truth about her broken relationship. But Omar tells about his first marriage after their marriage which makes her angry. Although she wasn't interested to get married, she got married because she wanted to go to America.

When they reach America, she meets Rukhi and her father. Rukhi loves David who happens to be foreign. When her father knows about the relationship, he goes against it. He convinces her to leave him but she is stubborn to marry him and finally her father gets convinced. Before her marriage, she gets disappear.

On the other hand, Saman and Omar are opposite poles. Most of the time do argue on the topic of Omar's first marriage. She is upset with Omar and leaves his home and stays with her friend Z's. Z's is extremely horrible to hand but Sonam tries to change Z's. Later, she knows she was the first wife of Omar through Rukhi. Although she knows the truth, she stays with her.

Later, she gets fed up with Z's and stays with Omar. One day, Z's comes to Omar's house for the money and sees Saman and knows she is the second wife of Omar. And she starts to make differences with Saman and Omar.

Imran Peerzade, father of Rukhi put in an able performance. Most of the dialogues are repeated. He was still unable to accept his daughter having defied his wishes. In his anger, he manages to cross the line and is repentant but it cost him dearly.

Rukhi and David's relationship too was a highlight. Both Rabab Hashmi and Shaz Khan looked good together, had an easy charm about them and their attempts at reaching out to Rukhi's were all handled rather maturely. They truly felt like a modern couple, adeptly handling the dilemma that many of our young people force today.

Nausheen Shah puts in a stellar performance as a washed-out, depressed and relapsing addict. Her moments of fragility were her strongest, though she veered towards hamming it up at times while her internal conflict was reasonable etched out, the many torturous conversations about 'no identity without a man,' seemed out of place.

Nothing was appealing about Saman. Hot-headed, rude, annoying is all very well but given her emotional depth of an eight-year-old coupled with zero self-awareness she was just a reel without a cause. Saman till the end, didn't make the intended impact.