Seyah Hashia (Saima Akram Choudary) Concludes- Novel Analysis by Shoby

Seyah Hashia (Saima Akram Choudary) Concludes- Novel Analysis by Shoby

It started off with an excellent sequence where someone is is running towards nowhere and suddenly voice of an invisible entity is heard, which is trying to stop her from crossing the Syeah Hashia (The Black Line of Limits). A boundary which was supposed to be a start of a devastating hell but she crossed it.

The very first sequence of the novel was a symbolic one. Executed beautifully, it had all the required ingredients to attract the reader. So I stick to it for all these 17 episodes and now it has come to the concluding part. Lets analyse, how Saima Akram Choudary has played with all the characters of the novel and how she tackled with somewhat complex proceedings.

To me, best part of Syeah Hashia is that it is perhaps one of those very rare Urdu digest novels of our current time that had characters in good numbers but all of the characters are very much required to build up the actual plot. I found not even a single non-needy character in the whole story and probably this is the most peculiar reason why I followed it completely.

Seyah Hashia can be regarded as a true socio-reforming material with few very important messages embedded within the plot. Especially the way Saima Akram highlighted the falsehood of Atheism and its devastating results on the individual as well as society. the novel revolved around how jealousy factor can badly impact the lives of not only the one who possess the bad hallmark but to others as well.

Seyah Hashia was all about social messages, be it the regard & honour of elders or cons of a bad decision maker. Saima nicely elaborated all these issues through actions, characteristics & dialogues of various characters. The novel tells how harsh, rude & false decisions of a father can brutally demolish a family. It also gave an insight of what sort of bad sequences a girl has to face if she runs out for someone. At times, what we feel as love is not love at all. Its destruction disguised in love.

In the middle of the story we got to see some sweet romance as well. I personally loved the way how the meetings of Bindya & Taimoor were exhibited by Saima. Purity of old-age romance was at its best in those scenes. How can one forget the young, energetic & cool couple of Oreeda & Arsam. Especially in the earlier episodes when the young love was all set to ablaze things. It was a real treat to read. Then off course the short love stories (although not much elaborated) of Adeena & Abdullah and Bakhtawar & Hashim). So it had the element of love in quite good volume.

It is pertinent to mention one thing here that it is not mandatory that every time you need some sort of metaphysical approaches or out of the box treatment to make a thing look good. Sometimes, a nice simple topic needs a very simple yet appealing treatment and here I would like to applaud Saima Akram that she did not tried anything out of the box. In fact, she stood accurate to her main concept and without letting reader wander here & there, she said her things in very clear & honest manner.

A touch of thrill & mystery was also observed in the novel. When Adeena found the gravestone with the name & the of birth & death dates of her living mother was marked and when Adeela saw the glimpses of Abdullah a couple of times after his proclaimed death. These sequences were sufficient enough to make the reader glued to it.

Overall this novel was a nice attempt if we talk about spreading strong socio-religious messages to the society and I really hope that we all get to learn certain supremely important concerns regarding our society.

I wish more of these simple message oriented writings come our way so that the much needed society gains some fruitful lessons & interpret them in their deeds. Looking forward to read some more good writings from this very talented writer Ms. Saima Akram Choudary.