Referencing again to the nau daulatia pann of our society, in all honesty I think it goes back to the time of the partition. I am sorry to be not towing the official "happily ever after for the Muslims" line since i'm not the sort of person to take a rose tinted view of the partition. I'd say that it was the creation of a new country with very few educated or capable people (considering how Muslims lagged behind in every sphere of life in British India) that afforded such upstarts the opportunity to take to positions and money they never deserved in the first place or never would have dreamed of in a United India. As Kishwar Naheed puts it in her autobiography most of these people had left the legacies of their ancestors far behind (literally in another country) and were therefore a lot more reckless(besharam) in their actions as only someone unhindered by respect for the family name and honour can be. Pity such mindset has not been changed even 6 decades down the line and God knows may take generations more to. No wonder then that our society continues to be dominated by this nouveau rich brigade.
btw to get another viewpoint on what the Muslims of India went through during partition, i would urge everyone to watch Garam Hawa based on a short story by Ismat Chughtai. It is available on youtube and is fundamental to a holistic understanding of the partition and why it continues to be relevant even today.
Thank you for the appreciation.. and yes you are absolutely right about Pakistan.. I believe it was important to have a separate homeland but what happened after that is quite shameful ..as Iqbal has written and we have read so many times
masjid to bana di shab bhar main imaan ki hararat waaloo nay
man apna purana paapi hai barsoon main namazi ban na saka
Well 64 years for a nation to settle down is not a lot.. it needs time, sacrifice and toil of generations to make a country strong.. i.e. if we survive these dark times...and i believe we will inshaAllah
They should wrap up the drama now...It's a been a great watch and I really hope they do it justice by not dragging it along. Bano has to snap out of the utopia. After watching the next weeks episode preview, I don't know how relevant it is to show Bano being taken advantage of again....really wasn't expecting that. The poor girl is going to lose whatever sanity she has left.
^^ Next week's epi is the last one Sehar. The cruelty is shown in Razia Butt's novel so it is not something Samira/Haissam have added on their own.
I was hoping they would take it out and end on a positive note. Let's see...
i feel it too!! cant watch it!.... bano has started to annoy me!.... even in india i dont think all muslims were saints, as she wants pakistanis to be!!.... i feel more sorry for hassan then bano.... he has been suffering equally....infact more!! (didnt like this part in the novel aswell)...........
I just made an account here to come discuss this show, my mom has been telling me to watch this amazing drama for a while and I finally saw it online, since I don't get Humtv here in canada : ( , I got aught up really fast since it was SO good! I can't wait for the ending on Saturday! But can someone please tell me if they have given it a happy ending or not, the ending of the book is painfully sad and it would be devastating to see it end like that! I have been crying on and off for majority of the episodes and I just think it would be a good idea to give it a postive end.
Yea she has already lost it a bit (understandably so) but this new evil guy will definitely make things as bad as they can be, I mean no one can be normal after ALL that. Seriously, as if all that Bano is going through isn't bad enough we are also probably going to be shown Hassan and Rabia's wedding.....uggghh!
Is Bano the only person in this whole wide world to SUFFER so much? jeeez. They are going a little too overboard now, IMHO.
I think Razia Butt probably put a lot of the stories into one character, but we do know that a lot of women suffered through what Bano suffered through during different parts of her life post-partition. A lot of them probably committed suicide so we do not even know their proper stories.
^I know, me too!! I'm glad the ending wasn't like the book though, that would've been insanely depressing! But even Bano being institutionalized and Hassan/Rabia ending up together was bad enough! It obviously made sense to show Bano as mentally instable forever but it wouldve been nice if Hassan married her and devoted his life to her. I hated Rabia less this episode though since she did try and get Bano married to Hassan.
I cried at the scene when the evil office guy tried to rape her and she just got possessed by anger and thought through all she had been through...sooo sad, but the murder part was very satisfying to watch, I liked that she got to stand up for herself and felt powerful for once.
Very very good drama! They should release it on DVD!
I wasn't sure how I felt after I watched the last episode...however reflecting on it, I do think they could've made the ending different.
Hassan had a huge impact on Bano's pre-partition thinking, how he led her to believe that Pakistan was going to be a utopia, land of the pure, where no one could do any wrong. Whether it was naivety on her part, or him cultivating her mind so well while she was working with him for the partition, he owed it to her to rehabilitate her when she arrived in Pakistan. He did try, despite his mother protests, and pressure from engagement to Rabia but I think the ending could've been different. I think it was important for her to leave Hassan's house and discover as a tutor, and as a NGO worker to realize that Pakistan wasn't what she had dreamt it to be. However, I did not think the last encounter of rape was necessary, or that she needed to murder him, to take revenge for all the suffering she had encountered during the partition process. Agreed that it was satisfying for her and the viewers, but it was the final straw as Bano was lost forever. I would've had Bano confront Hassan for all the dreams he lead her to believe, and he should've asked her more firmly to marry him, because he was the only one left at the end who could've brought her back to life, as he was the only meaningful person from her past who knew truly the Bano that she was years ago. It was also necessary to show that despite the ordeals that she had with Basanta, that she still had self worth, and that she was qabil for Hassan. As for Rabia, she would've returned to Karachi and moved on with life. She would've only lost Hassan, but Bano lost everything at the end including her mind.
I wasn't sure how I felt after I watched the last episode...however reflecting on it, I do think they could've made the ending different.
Hassan had a huge impact on Bano's pre-partition thinking, how he led her to believe that Pakistan was going to be a utopia, land of the pure, where no one could do any wrong. Whether it was naivety on her part, or him cultivating her mind so well while she was working with him for the partition, he owed it to her to rehabilitate her when she arrived in Pakistan. He did try, despite his mother protests, and pressure from engagement to Rabia but I think the ending could've been different. I think it was important for her to leave Hassan's house and discover as a tutor, and as a NGO worker to realize that Pakistan wasn't what she had dreamt it to be. However, I did not think the last encounter of rape was necessary, or that she needed to murder him, to take revenge for all the suffering she had encountered during the partition process. Agreed that it was satisfying for her and the viewers, but it was the final straw as Bano was lost forever. I would've had Bano confront Hassan for all the dreams he lead her to believe, and he should've asked her more firmly to marry him, because he was the only one left at the end who could've brought her back to life, as he was the only meaningful person from her past who knew truly the Bano that she was years ago. It was also necessary to show that despite the ordeals that she had with Basanta, that she still had self worth, and that she was qabil for Hassan. As for Rabia, she would've returned to Karachi and moved on with life. She would've only lost Hassan, but Bano lost everything at the end including her mind.
I completely agree. I found the ending too disheartening to watch and whilst the makers of this drama were emphasising the patriotism message, Bano's tragic state was too much of a powerful image to forget. Someone who has sacrificed so much yet gained so little in return - simply killing some evil man who resembles Basanta isn't going to make up for the pain and suffering.
On the whole, this drama was inspiring to watch...it's very rare to come across something that is so meaningful and beautifully executed. It must have been a real challenge to make it since there's so many partition-related dramas already out there but 'Dastaan' surpassed all these. Thanks to cast and crew for this one of a kind experience - most notably Sanam Baloch who made Bano such a memorable character.
The only fault in the drama was the ending. They should have not shown Bano as a mental patient living rest of her life in a room rather shown her moved on and living happily in peace without Hassan.
I agree with Sehar and Man with a Plan. I wish they would have shown Bano a bit more stronger than what they showed her as. I am so glad that they did not kill her or have her be killed because that would have been a non-motivational end to watch.
Maybe Razia Butt wanted it this way (who knows) but I would have loved to see (as I had said earlier) Hassan working toward rehabilitating Bano and Bano progressively realizing that Pakistan is not a utopia but she can do things to help people.
Having said that I still think the ending sent out a powerful message and I loved loved loved the way Haissam used the light and dark in the scene and how they showed Bano doing tasbeeh on the necklace. Brilliantly shot and delivered! It made me cry quite a few tears :*)
Tahira Syed the singer was on Geo's morning show and she was saying how awesome Sanam was how she stayed up until 4 am to watch the last episode of Dastaan. :-)
