HUM TV has experimented a trip down the memory lane and, from the first five episodes, it seems they have grabbed the audience’s nerve, the very nerve that was left untouched and unattended for a long time. What makes Raqeeb Se exactly what the doctor ordered, let’s analyze.
It is a simple story, with perfect execution!
When was the last time you saw a TV drama that had no antagonist, no protagonist, just plain and simple characters from our surroundings? In Raqeeb Se, writer Bee Gul has created such characters who care about others, who know that by doing good to others, they are helping themselves and that not everything has to be done for a favor. If Maqsood sahib (Naumaan Ijaz) is a ‘medicine man’ in the city, then he will treat the patient even if that person is his lost love Sakina (Hadiqa Kiani) from his village, with the help of his wife Hajra (Sania Saeed), despite the objection of his daughter Insha (Faryal Mehmood) and in the presence of Sakina’s daughter Ameeraan (Iqra Aziz). Why? Because that’s what good people do, even if it means revealing skeletons in their closet in front of their kids who know a little too much about Maqsood-Sakina’s love story.
Love is in the air, and everyone knows that!
Raqeeb Se revolves around two families comprising mostly of women who know about a love affair that existed twenty years ago, between Naumaan Ijaz’s Maqsood sahib and Hadiqa Kiani’s Sakina, the village belle. The best part about the affair is that it wasn’t hidden and is sort of available for everyone to read, something Iqra Aziz’s Ameeraan loved. Sakina existed in Maqsood’s world before he married Hajra, and since Hajra and her daughter know all about it, they have different views about the return of Sakina. Hajra cares about her because she believes that Sakina helped make Maqsood the kind of man he turned out to be, while Insha feels that there is no need to entertain the ‘guests’ especially someone who has broken the heart of her father (if that is what really happened!). More developments in the fifth episode created tension between the women, but it will all be revealed in upcoming episodes as to what really ended the tragic love story!
With the introduction of veterans Salman Shahid and Saba Faisal (Maqsood Ahmed’s elder brother and sister-in-law), things are moving at an interesting pace and with every episode, new details are emerging. Who would have imagined that Hajra’s family would have gone through so much or that Insha’s boyfriend feels that he is inferior to her? That Maqsood Ahmed had a younger brother and that he spent two years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit? Add to that the indecisiveness of Rafiq Ali (Saqib Sumeer) who is Sakina’s husband, Ameeraan’s father, and despite being a violent man, has no clue how to behave in front of Maqsood Sahib, his ‘raqeeb’! And then there is Ameeraan who at one moment wants to stay with her abusive father and the other decides to accompany the father she never had, on a journey back to the city!
Bee Gul gives every character in the Raqeeb Se cast a backstory, but Kashif Nisar makes it believable!
We might not want to believe but we have met most of the characters in Raqeeb Se drama in our real lives. We know of a Sakina who gets beaten by her husband yet doesn’t leave him, whose daughter is a firecracker and knows how to get things done, a Maqsood sahib who married the ‘other woman’ because he couldn’t get the first one, a Hajra who knows that her husband loved someone else yet is devoted to him, their daughter who wants to live peacefully without any drama in her life and a youngster who was incarcerated for someone else’s crime. What writer Bee Gul created here are characters with a backstory and director Kashif Nisar added the believability with his magic touch, giving the viewers something to talk about. His treatment is more filmi than dramatic, and that’s what makes it interesting for the cinema-deprived audiences, like this scribe!
Who else could have played Hajra better than Sania Saeed, who cares about everyone else but her daughter’s feelings; using Hadiqa Kiani as Sakina was a masterstroke that only Kashif Nisar could have thought of, for she has been around for over two decades and could have acted whenever she wanted. However, like a true professional, she waited for the perfect role to launch her acting career and looks more Sakina than Hadiqa here. Naumaan Ijaz can play any role and has proved that in his illustrious career, and he does exactly that – making you want to root for Maqsood sahib even though the audience just got the tip of the mystery as to why he left Sakina and the village. The rest of the Raqeeb Se cast also has their characters well-defined, although these three take the lion’s share of the story.
The makers know what the audience wants …
And the best part is that the makers managed to hit the nerves of the audience without going overboard. They didn’t have to portray Sania Saeed’s Hajra as the antagonist who would try to kick out Sakina for interfering with her family life; they didn’t go for a violent Maqsood sahib who wouldn’t treat his ex just because she broke his heart. They went the most appropriate way and that was to keep it simple, effective, and romantic. That’s why the viewers are waiting for Raqeeb Se just like they used to wait for an Ashfaq Ahmed play, a Munnu Bhai drama, or a Haseena Moin serial back in the 1980s and the 1990s. For they knew what they would watch would be something classy, something closer to home, and something they would cherish for a long time.
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