I found the end very satisfying, but know some people who were disappointed that Sanam and Junaid didn’t end up together. I think completely otherwise and would’ve been VERY disappointed if it had happened otherwise.
The forced breakup was the catalyst for Zara to take charge of her life and grow both professionally and personally. The only burden on her was that adeel didn’t know why she left him and that she never got a chance to talk to maleeha and get everything out of her system .Once she does both of these, she can truly move on.
So much time has passed and she’s experienced so much in the past 7 years: specialization, residency, job, monetary security, a new life, new friends. She’s probably interacted with hundreds of people during that time and made countless new memories. Her getting over Junaid is very very natural. Maleeha and Junaid on the other hand are EXACTLY where they were 7 years ago and are both living in the past since the present isn’t how they’d planned it to be. Junaid thinks he still loves Zara, only because he has a miserable life and thinks about what could’ve been as opposed to what is( which is marriage to a psychotic woman). If he were happy he would’ve forgotten her. I think it’s very realistic don’t you?
Btw the forced breakup was the best thing that could’ve happened to Zara. Yes it was painful and cruel, but if Maleeha had happily married her bro and zara, wouldn’t zara have felt “ehsaan mund” her entire life and suffered from an inferiority complex. Now she is a confident and successful individual who recognizes her own brilliance.