The depiction of 'spoiled rich kids' seems a little overdone. There were a couple times when the dialogue was too over the top: the admission result day when Zaroon and his friends mock the girl who outshone Zaroon the drive back to his home the scene in which Zaroon’s sister is pestering him to drop her off to a friend’s, and so on. If done wrong, it could make the viewer furrow his brow or make him shake his head with disapproval or both. It is a challenge, however, to deliver a dialogue that is meant as light-hearted jest. It is easier to deliver a dialogue that makes the viewer feel the character’s pain. Sanam Saeed has played well the role of Kashaf, a girl from a middle class family who is being crushed between the emotional distress of having an uncooperative father and joining an elite university, where she meets her insecurities. Perhaps it is easier to infuse emotions when we find ourselves confined to a certain lifestyle, and from which we only wish to escape. This, if anything, is portrayed aptly and follows standards of other shows in which there is a sincerity with which the middle class is dealt with. My concern, however, is not the lower middle class. On the contrary, we have the lower middle class family that is striving to reach the top. But that has little to do with the drama. Yet, the daughter will be seen brazenly wearing a shirt that reads, “Little Miss Jihad". When someone frowns down upon this, one of the parents shrugs it off in a way that suggests that their children are mature adults. The children go about their daily lives, not bound any limitation whatsoever. She is snobbish and does not like being questioned. In dealing with familial affairs, however, she is often careless and mindless.
In Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Zaroon's mother is successful in her affairs and makes a show of it by unduly criticising her husband. It is primarily because, both the serials show an affluent matriarchal family in which the woman, especially the mother, wields unusual authority and teeters on the brink of transgression. No, not because the same actor is acting in this drama, though I have to admit it certainly added to the likeness of the two drama serials.
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Given the hype surrounding the show, I wasn’t surprised when from the outset, a similar plot was introduced- a plotline that serves the basis for many Pakistani TV series. After receiving countless amounts of messages from my friends to watch the new drama serial, Zindagi Gulzar Hai, I finally spared some time to catch up with the few episodes that have aired so far.