Woh Khawab Woh Khayal (Sidra Abbas)- Review by Shoby

Woh Khawab Woh Khayal (Sidra Abbas)- Review by Shahbaz Ali Naqvi (Shoby)

Women Empowerment is the voice of this century. We have seen some great women in the history who have stood up firm against the tyranny faced by either themselves or other women in this male dominated society. Same is depicted in different art forms and almost every domain of art has done its part in this regard. Sidra Abbas took the same subject matter and gave us her take in this mystery titled as Woh Khawab Woh Khayal in TMS Darr Matt.

Let me tell you that regardless of being relatively new in the business, Sidra is a very authentic writer and her command on portraying social taboos is amazing. I have been a fan of her story Dhool, for which she won a position in TMS Season One. So, it was quite obvious for me that whatever she will write, she will surely highlight some serious social issues and WKWK is the picture of my words.

WKWK is a beautiful blend of two stories with the primary focus on the little developing love story between a young college going boy with a lady in her mid 30s (a love story with different religious backgrounds too) and another story which makes the ultimate background climax of the story of a courageous woman, who tried to fight for her right but ended up being abused in the society both morally and physically. You know what, the fear emerges from where the tyranny ends and here the writer produced the same.

Although the premises of the story seems to be a tested & tried formula but Sidra has done well to mark her own stamp onto the story. She is a keen observer and what I like about her writing is her dialect which goes smoothly well with the aura of the story. She used the environment of ancient Aligarh in this story and used two different languages. One being pure Aligarh style Hindi dialect of Urdu and second, native language of the locals with a bit hard & stretched accent. The backbone of this story is the amazing use of old song's lyrics and Ghazals amalgamated well with some dance.

The writer has a habit of using some real eye catching lines after every now & then. See how beautifully she portrays the feelings. Kabhi kabhi main sochti hoon ke is puri dharti mein aik ramz hai, aik taal hai...Raat mein aisa kiya hai... Raat mein khushi hai, jashan hai, milan hai...Woh sangeet ki malka thi... Jab gaati to jatey musafir ruk ker sunney lagtey... Jab naachti to waqt ki dharkan bhi saakin ho jati... Woh kala ka fakhar thi...

In order to gel in with the theme of the competition, writer used some amazing chill creating scenes where a woman is shown dancing in nights. The mystery enhances with the supremely graceful lady sings or listens to some of the great old compositions with all the sorrow and sadness, depicted through her face. Dialogues are rich and give a feeling of you being there right into the proceedings. Sidra was never in a hurry and she brought the penultimate climax with sheer ease and flexibility.

Let me also discuss some short comings in the story that the writer needs to work on. First of all, this story was placed in such an environment, where we have already seen multiple stories already. I would have been more happy if the writer would have taken some unique premises. I expect these writers to do some extra effort and come up with diverse unexplored ideas. Secondly. apart from a couple of scenes, no serious fear factors were present in the plot and it looked more like a social drama than a horror mystery. But still,m this story is a winner in its own domain and it remains with the reader for her larger than life scenes and classical dance and musical background.

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