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Poor little Lonely Boy Dan Humphrey had to fight several seasons to shake off his Brooklyn complex and be accepted by them.īack to Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Ghazala’s shock needs to be put down to an egotistic and elitist woman’s mindset. After all, series like Sex and the City and Gossip Girl thrived on the ‘superiority’ of Manhattan’s elite. And the play’s responsibility should be in being effective not in sugar-coating issues or cushioning blows to the ego.

It is crude, rude and elitist but the fact is that it gets the point across when highlighting a social difference in a story. The Defense-Nazimabad comparison is as typical as the Defense-Ichchra (Lahore) comparison, the EMT-UMT (English-Urdu Medium Types) comparison or the Burger-Bun Kabab difference. Oops…that could not have gone down well with a lot of people but did get the point across. €œShe lives in Nazimabad?” Zaroon’s sister Sara asks her mother in disbelief when they are discussing the ultimate social inequality between Zaroon and Kashaf. That said, one was a bit taken aback when the Defense-Nazimabad stereotype came to life on television. She says this with the perfect blow dry – not a hair out of place – a well-maintained manicure and an adequately expensive strand of pearls and emeralds to match her silk sari. It’s Zaroon’s mother who brings out the status difference between both households and deems marriage between her son and Kashaf “impossible”. In this episode that message points at social disparity and the importance of post, position and class when building relationships (Murtaza is inching his way into Rafia’s life because his daughters are all well-settled and successful) and in proposing new relationships. One can allow concessions in pace because the performances are great and the messages that lie between the lines are important and relevant to women in Pakistan today. The story in Zindagi Gulzar Hai is progressing at snail’s pace – I think everyone following it wants ‘the wedding’ to happen – however there are moments in every episode that make the speed acceptable.