Humsafars, Zindagi gulzar hai, Dastaan

Pakistani drama. My new craze. It has been ignited by Fawad Khan but honestly he is such a handsome man.

He made me fall in love with Asher and Khirad. Bano and Hassan. Zaroon and Khashaf equally.

Each story being unique in its own setting.

After three drama’s I can say Pakistani drama is amazing. Quiet underrated to be honest. It is a lot like a normal hindi serial but thankfully it does not go on for years and years.

So let’s start with Humsafars. If you have heard of Fawad Khan than I am sure you have heard of Humsafars as the two things go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly.

Humsafars is basically every mills and boon you have ever read in a Muslim setting. But what makes it fresh is the fact that Mahira and Fawad have amazing chemistry.

Pakistani dramas have generally overbearing men. He is a bit of a chauvinist. He wants to know where his women is, who she is with, and what she is doing most of the time. And even the strongest heroines at the start generally mold themselves to their husbands Ideals.

So basically in Humsafars we have Asher who is a rich guy, and is best friends with his maternal cousin Sara who is infatuated with him.

Sara is rich like Asher and his mom really wants them to get married.

Khirad is not rich, and lives with her ailing mother. Khirad is Asher’s paternal cousin. Khirads mom begs Ashers dad to get Khirad married before, she dies. Ashers father decides to marry Khirad and Asher. Asher initially does not want to marry someone he doesn’t know and so does Khirad she doesn’t want to be a burden onto anyone else. Both are forced to marry. They initially are very awkward with each other. Sara is heartbroken and tries to commit suicide after she hears that Asher has married. Khirad does whatever Asher tells her which angers him into thinking she has no emotion and does not want to even try and ease themselves into their relationship. He later overhears her telling his father she feels guilty that Asher was forced to marry her. This changes his behavior towards her instantly. Like during the night she leaves their bed and cries near the pool and he finds her and tells her never to leave the room in the night ever again even if she thinks she is going to disturb him. I kind of suspect the two started mating (LOL) around here, because after that. Asher begins to ogle Khirad, come home early from work and look for her all the time.

Khirad begins to notice how different she is from Asher and tries to mold herself to his likes and dislikes.

Asher is adorable during this phase of their relationship. He is like a puppy. Or maybe a baby who constantly needs Khirad around him. He encourages Khirad to study again as he finds she is rather intelligent and she begins going to college. There she meets Khizar who is Sara’s cousin.

The two begin to get close, igniting Asher’s jealousy as Khirad is not able to spend enough time with him. And Khizar hangs around Khirad like a mosquito.

Honestly the jealously is the best part.

Khirad is treated horribly by Asher and he never tells her why nor does he apologizes for it.

His mother’s claws come out when his father dies.

I loved the fact that during the entire show Asher never once wanted to leave Khirad he loved her so much. Even if she was having an affair he still wanted her. When he makes an excuse to take her home. Loved it he did not have the guts to tell her the real reason. He was ashamed of himself so he lies. Without her he has a nervous breakdown.

His lives an unhappy life without her but the minute she is back, he looks like he is able to breathe again.

That one scene where he wishes he could take her away, because she looked so beautiful was adorable.

Even though Asher never apologized, and the ending kind of sucked. I wish they make another show for Mahira and Fawad I loved them together.

The next Fawad drama I watched was Zindagi gulzar hai.

Which means life is a garden.

This shows heart breaking. As once Khashaf says when one problem goes away four show up in place this was exactly what I saw when I watched this.

Aunty Rafia is one of the most unselfish, kindest and realist woman I have ever seen. She reminded me a lot of my own mother. Her husband was an asshole.

Sidhara and Sharmila were gorgeous. And never have I seen in any show so much tea being served and people saying kaise ho.

Ok so Zaroon Junaid comes out first in everything, he is rich and has a somewhat perfect looking life. But at home his mother overpowers his father and his sister has grown up just like her, seeing his father being treated not as an equal and his mother being so liberal Zaroon has become a bit of a chauvinist and does not like it when his sister is out late or his friends wear open clothing.

Khashaf on the other hand is extremely poor and views life rather negatively, her mother works hard, and her father has left them and remarried because their mother could not have a son. They live a hard life due to their father’s absence. Khashaf is really smart and wins a scholarship in a university where mostly rich kids go and there meets Zaroon. Whom she overhears calling her a witch.

She beats Zaroon and comes out first in the test to get into the collage.

The two bicker constantly.

But time passes and one of Khasaf’s friends say that Khashaf would never fall for Zaroon as Zaroon is a bit of a flirt and flirts with all the girls in collage. This angers Zaroon and he begins trying to flirt with Khashaf who never gives him the time of day. Zaroon gets angry whenever he sees his bestfriend Usama with Khashaf. Khashaf overhears Zaroon saying that he is playing with her. And she goes up to him and tears up his work. And calls him basically a heartless asshole. As she heard him saying that she is a typical middle class girl she will fall for him because he is a rich and all girls are the same.

Khashaf stops coming to collage for a few days but then comes back and ignores Zaroon.

Years pass.

They meet again now Khashaf is rich, well off not rich and has a good job and Zaroon and her have to work together. Zaroon realizes the closest girl to his ideal for a wife is Khashaf. As she comes home early, doesn’t have male friends, and dresses appropriately. Usama proposes to Khashaf and she rejects. After that Zaroon proposes initially Kashaf refuses. Thinking Zaroon is still as he was in school.

But she agrees when he protects her hands when a cup of tea is about to fall and burns his own hands.

The two marry initially awkward but slowly like each other.

Zaroon proves he is not like her father but when he finds out Usama had once proposed to Kashaf and she did not tell him he begins to treat her badly. When he finds out she is pregnant, their entire fight is forgotten. But Zaroon reads her letter and checks her phone as she keeps secrets from him.

Kashaf thinks he is having an affair and leaves him. Zaroon never once calls her to ask about the children and instead sends divorce papers. Kashaf who has begun to love him and miss him want to go back home to him.

I wish Zaroon apologized to Kashaf, I found him a little too much sometimes but Kashaf dealt with him well. The person who wrote the show made khasaf sarcastic. She made me laugh numerous times.

Zaroon was rather childish.

The third show I watched with Fawad was Daastan.

Daastan is basically the zee tv show Lajwanti only not as happy and there is not HEA.

Hasan and Banoo had amazing chemistry. But this story was heart breaking L

I have become a FAWADIAN after watching all these drama’s and am currently on a mission to watch every movie he has acted in and drama.