All the star plus
viewers are familiar with the term “ek ghantay ka maha episode” which
is use to be on aired on Saturdays’ in order to reveal a new character, or to
break suspense or to crack a story. Recently, this ek ghantay ka maha
episode technique was used in a Pakistani drama, “Yeh
Zindagi hai”
This do ghantay
ka maha episode revealed the death of Jamila (Javeria Saud the heroin
of drama), in a bus blast. The bomb blast approach was also used before in the
killing of Bhula (Fahad Mustafa) and Nargis (Beenish Chohan), the most initial
characters, the only difference between the deaths were, Jamila died in a bus
blast, however, Bhulay and Nargis died in a maternity hospital so the twist
wasn’t new in the story. Along with Bhula and Nargis, the character of laraka
khala Bano (Parveen Akbar) and shrill voice Hajra (Hina Dilpazir) was
also soon eliminated from the serial or you can say they just vanished from the
story, Bano Khala ran away and Hajra also ran away with her husband.
‘Applause’. There is another point to appreciate; now Bhula has lost his senses
and doctors have suggested if his mother come in front of him he will be
normal.
The story of YZH is also
much not different from any typical star plus drama. It is all about the
marriage, divorce, extra maternal affair and recently illegitimate child
concept has also been introduced. The white streaked hair and kids turn young
within a week, everything has taken from Star plus. Jamila, who first married
to Shirazi (Saud) and became step-mother of Jannat, she soon got divorce from
Shirazi and re-married to Jamal (her cousin) she gave birth to Jamal’s twin
kids, Jabbo and Bhulay and again got divorce. However, Jamal re-married to rich
girl Pinky, Jamal did’t accept Jabbo and Bhulay but his real son from Pinky,
Kamal (Adeel Chaudary) who is acting as a bigra hua burger munda but
God! From nowhere he looks like a burger. I wonder why they made Pinky and Kam,
burger when they don’t even look rich from any angle. Moving forward, the kids
grow up and give a beginning to love stories. Bhulay fall in love with Jannat
(Jenny, foreign return) but twist in love story is necessary so for a twist,
families fix Kam and Jannat marriage. But later on Jenny fall into Bhulay’s
sack. However, Jabbo fall in love with a rich man who gave her a in reward
without marriage.
With the killing of
Jamila, I thought the drama is about to end or the story will take a new dhasu turn
but all my expectations were left in tears of regret, when I come to know that
Javeria is coming back in the serial as a young, dark, lively, chubby and bubbly
girl, ‘Chameli’. Yes, hold on your breaths Jamila hasn’t gone anywhere from the
serial. She is back in her words “Chameli aye hai seher ma Chameli”.
This time Jamila is playing role of young 24 year old village girl, who came to
Karachi and adapt beggary as her occupation.
In addition, Jamal and
Jamila’s love story is also highlighting on social media and facebook is full
of their comics, featuring two monkeys one Jamal and other Jamila. Some of the
comics are:
·
“Doodh
mangay ka kheer dunga, Jameela mangayga cheer dunga”
·
“Jamal sharab pena
chorday, ab wo kabhie nahi ayege laut ker”
·
“Meri jan jameela ke
kasam jo bhe humaray bech aye…,
I will make him
remember milk number 6”
From the perspective of
a sane person, the drama has no reality or entertainment left. The way, they
through shoes at each other or fight in abusive language, sorry people from
middle class don’t do such immoral activities. Furthermore, in the serial, they
are residing in Paposh Nagar, so people live in paposh
nagar are not that ill-mannered as they show in the drama which is
actually reflecting a negative image of a particular area.
But the story is still on, let's what they have planned next.
