yaar Happy to report that Umera still got it in her to write absolutely marvelous shows that are so satisfying and Still have so much food for thought yet are balanced and don't sound sermonic even though it fully rotates around the concept of spirituality & belief. Thanks to me Being sick the past few days I finished this show in Literally 2 days and i haven't been over it.. Alif is truly one of the most amazing and Non problematic shows in recent times that are a must watch and i am highly recommending.. drop everything and go onto this journey and am like 99.99% sure You will like it too simply for how Beautiful the journey of this Man is from an atheist to a believer.
This is the one if the rare times where i actually liked sajal caz again for the first time here she was not a snob and making annoying faces and sada hua put off fake vibe.. Momina had far too many reasons to be unhappy but here her groundedness and how she navigates thru it and her faith just made it work. also it haleped that the 2 tracks of Momin and Momina are running in parallel for like 80% of the show and only post 15 you actually get them together in a frame too besides the first base setting meeting in 1 or 2( show is 24 total). and that is the good part caz everything is so Tight no need or Lame Twists thrown for the sake of it.. coherent, tightly edited and Each episode being fully moving the story and covering so so much . the only time i felt we were a lilttle in the Drag mode was in momina ka track after her brother's death uske baad ka 2,3 episodes main her side of track got super slow but then we had kya kya TWISTS and TURNS in Qalb e momin and Husn e jahan( his mom)) ki kahaani. all Extremely well presented and because they were non linear each time they could show us a different take on it which kept you Hooked and looking forward to it
Hamza Is Qalb-e Momin and NOBODY else could have done it the way he ahs done it and also Carried the wajan of such a bhari naam.. Matlab Naam se hi itna pressure. it literally means Heart of a Believer.. Dude is Literally a chalti phirti paradox with that name lmao but then how beautiful is his journey is so worth it.. it is also worth noting that he wasn't always an atheist how he became one is very well done too and from the very first frame with the Most innocent gesture of This Boy as a 8 year old you do fall for him.. baaki the way he humbles down and find his path is just so so riveting and well Written and done i totally see why Hamza spoke so passionately about it.. ( trying really hard here to not post spoilers) I have to say here this is BY FAR his most Powerful role Only 2nd to shehram caz shehram IS something else and holds the top.spot in his filmography and will be very hard to top that but this is pretty much the same stature in weight in The JOURNEY and the whole arc he got.. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING.YOU JUST HAVE to watch it... Dada jaan and Momin are just So interesting to watch. Also A shoutout to the styling team caz yes Hamza Looks Believable as Half turkish guy. hahah in vcertain scenes to ek dum ertugal ka chota bhai hi lag raha tha itni similarity aa rahi thi.
now i know we both have discussed our apprehensions before trust me They never cause a hinderance once you start viewing caz as u know i was holding back too esp caz i didn;t wanted a overpreach kinda thing.. the 2 timelines Never get confusing even though the screenplay is non linear in that story but that is the driving force in present world and how everything is connected... ( now i do have some minor issues there ) but not huge to not watch.. i am toh just happy about another one of those gems with no villains and Bakwaas tamashe around and one that satisfies the hunger of the soul.. basically it is all about love and the different kinds of love. Love of God/parental love/romantic love /sibling love
Umera was on a different plane while writing this Matlab the way she has tied the narrative and all the threads with all tracks constantly is something to experience. hard to put it in words. that wikipedia explanation is a pathetic job by someone and makes it far more confusing to keep up when in the show it is simple non complicated story very easy to keep up up with storytelling
GET ONTO IT GIRL LIKE NOWWWWWWWWWW for Hamza and for CLASSIC UMERA AHMED ( 4.5/5)
now there are a few flaws but that i will talk about later caz nothing major storywise just some here n there like sometimes the edit was abrupt. or that if you are casting someone as a darwesh dancer then maybe just maybe get them to train a lil bit so it looks more organic and not just random twirling yeah like that
Also it was kinda fun to see the real life similarities like momina here gets to go to Hollywood and bollywood before pakistani industry haha and sajal khud Hollywood bollywood kar chuki hain..or hamza's little detour to atheism in mid and then turning so strongly back to a believer ðŸ¤
Edited by naadanmasakalli - 5 months ago
Shreya's voice is nice but I guess iska tempo is slower than the original Saami and big reason for that song being hit was the tune/beat I guess and the dancing in the video from Allu Arjun.
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