Raqsam (Aymal Raza)- Episode 2 Review by Shoby

Raqsam (Aymal Raza)- Episode 2 Review by Shoby

Brody: You alright?

Carrie: Are you?

(Starts raining)

Brody: Dont leave me like this... All alone... In the rain...

Carrie: You will be fine...

#Homeland #Season1

Remember the first emotional meeting of Brody and Carrie in Homeland? While reading how Ajram came close to Minaal reminded me of that and obviously I am taking too much leverage in saying this.

Minaal meets Ajram and this guy knows every known trick in the books to lure the audience. No matter how talkative you are, there is one damn person in the world who possess the power to make you silent. A silence that speaks much louder than noise. Pakistan mein sab isey kehtey they ke is ki zaban qainchi ki tarha chalti hai... Ajram ki to kai so qainchiyon ki tarha chal rahi thi. 

Some people believe it to be their utmost duty to make you realise that you are still one step behind them in the game. Minaal gets a project of interior decor and the night of the celebrations turned into yet another evening of sorrow when she saw Doris walking on the ramp, making Sikander proud.  It was her night and she was there to get the credit of every great thing but the things are changed. Sikander was also present there and obviously he was also happy to see Minaal's success but taste of the victory has turned sour as Doris has stolen the scene with a big wicked smile on her face. Meanwhile it can be clearly seen that somewhere within herself, ice is melting for Minaal binte Surayya.

So Minaal is melting not only for her father but also for Ajram. He is marking quite a visible stamp on her. Pyara hona bohat acha lagta hai, khas tor per tab jab kisi ko laga jaey... Love has the tendency to modify you. It literally can. Same is happening to our grief struck enraged girl. She has finally found a buddy.

Now lets us pause here for a while and discuss Ajram. This happy go lucky, all goes well nice charming uni fellow likes street dancing and therefore he is learning dance from the instructor Saint. I feel his character is something like that of Aman from Kal Ho Na Ho. The more he provides the fun element to the story, the more it looks like that he is going to reveal a deadly disastrous news soon. 

On the street festival, Ajram gifts her a traditional Greek Garland. On that very night, Sikander confesses all the bad, he has done with Surayya and her children. They are coming nearer. She is becoming happier. And then all of the sudden everything got changed. 

Us ki aankhen weeran ho gai... Sara sheher weeran ho gaya. Seems like Ajram is deliberately avoiding her for unknown reasons citing various lame excuse of being abroad for a short film and then came the biggest twist in the story. Ajram asks her for a dinner and there she found him, not as her boy friend, but as the (proclaimed) fiance of none other than Doris.

Hats off to Aymal for switching gears and going back-forth by making some real interesting twists in the plot. First she managed so well to divert the focus of the readers from a revenge filled Minaal-Sikander saga to a little warm Minaal- Ajram love story and then just with a mere click, she turned the tables once again and beautifully shifted the focus to the same old siblings hate/-revenge drama. Apparently Doris has acquired the very best (in fact the only) of what Minaal had.

From the story-line, I am getting a feel that this one seems to be getting unzipped in a nice smooth manner. Aymal is this time effortlessly telling us a tale in simplest of the manners. She is not trying to do anything extra and just focusing on producing a fairly fluent narrative. I am  predicting a happily living ever after sort of finale with a touch of family drama at the end. Let's wait and watch what is coming next in Raqsam.