SPM~ My Musings 25.6.19 ~ The shattered photo frame !
Zainab is a mother whose daughter is about to be wed shortly. How lovingly she gazes at the mother daughter framed photograph. Call it nerves or call it ominous, but it slips from her hands and crashes on the floor!Very soon the mother daughter bond will end up broken! Perhaps beyond all repair! Damaged glass, relates to broken promises ,smashed expectations! Well the episode shows Kainat sees, that her mother has fallen short of what she expected of Zainab.Her mother in fact strikes her more in favour of the girl who always ruined her dreams. Why else is she so desperate to seek her?
For Zainab as Kainat’s mother its painful to accept that all the clues point to Kainat initiating and expediting Saltanat’s sudden disappearance. The broken framed photo, also is a stark reminder for Zainab, where she witnesses history repeats itself in the shape of Kainat’s violent behaviour towards her. Where she acts as her fathers daughter! gives Zainab bodily harm and then laughs and gloats at an overpowered submissive,beaten Zainab, in the same fashion like her father did!
After witnessing Kainat with her mother today ,and learning a bit about her fathers. Black and white photo negativeflashing images, reminds me how on previous occasions whenever Kainat needed emotional uplifting especially in her misdeeds, she tended to communicate with her dead father’s photograph! The abusive husband, to her was a devout fathershe looked up to. I recall, how she used to say, had he been alive, he would make things alright for her! all her obsessions he would fix..
One shattered frame of present time,brings back a frame of the past events, Zainab thinks she had forgotten. But Kainat now for Zainab, digs up the past.
So Zainab was a victim of domestic violence, before I suspect, Kainat’s very eyes. Today we also see how Kainat also, to have her own way overpowers hermother in fact locks her up for being a threat for her, on her big day!
We also learn, that for Kainat relationships of all manner are secondary and her own needs are primary! Makes me wonder, did her father perhaps have some unholy needs, for which he required monies? Did Zainab object to his questionable ways? and in response she received physical abuse from him? In fact Kainat. words, deeds are cold and need driven. She actually talks the talk.That being an adult, the law of the land gives her the full right to takeindependent decisions! In which case, Zainab’s questioning, guidance is notneeded anymore!
Kainat rides high, on her bold mindset to realize her personal needs, and sets aside familial relationships. Here I see a daughter who without any emotional relationship , bar an insane love for Zaroon ,for whom, she spurns aside even her bond with the mother who bore her without blinking an eyelid! What can be worse than a child, disloyal to its own mother!
Enough about familial bonds. As today ! Kainat will ensure that all doors are opened before her, that lead to her happiness. However we see in order to let joy into, her life, Kainat also closes doors on all the anti-happiness elements of her life. Yesterday she locked up Saltanat securely and literally and throws away the key! Today she locks up Zainab her mother!
I find haste in today’s wedding ambience.Haste in getting rid of the chest that cargo’s Saltanat. Kainat and Sabina’s,haste in making it to the marriage! Zainab’s speed in seeking the missing Saltanat. A rush for Zainab to fulfil her oath to Zaroon by bringing Saltanat to him, before the nikah!!
There is haste in expressing highly strung sentiments. Rubina is livid with Zainab, and refuses to divulge information about Sultanat’s whereabouts. At this point another bit of the past is thrown in! some debt that Zainab gave to Rubina . Nadeem obliges Zainab , and does what is within his power to trace out the whereabouts of Saltanat. Zainab’s hysteria over Saltanat's disappearance seems more in comparison to Rubina. Could Saltanat too, be Zainab’s daughter?
Anything can go wrong with this controversial wedding, like the groom might not show up. Mainjaan is assured by Zaroon and Mamoon ,affirmative! The wedding will go through.
Zaroon as the groom, though is pensive,regretful.. but he consoles his broken heart by believing that he is only marrying Kainat because it’s what Saltanat wanted.
The chest is still retained as Saltanat’s replica! Both Zaroon and Kainat rest on it briefly! Omens continue.Zaroon’s bridal outfit gets hooked on a nail on the chest. For Kainat it becomes an object upon which she aims taunts ,mocks and scoffs at Saltanat! Gibes she finally gets to snatch Zaroon from her, as keeps forever! As for Saltanat, she is a done away relative that Kainat does not need! She has experienced all relationships and realised they are all meaningless .. what matters in the end is ones primordial need! The demand of her heart, is to necessitate her need. Zaroon….
Sabina‘s real face is exposed, she too choses to side with Kainat ,turns a deaf ear to her sisters cries for freedom , leaves Zainab locked in the room; pushes the chest in the water, ensures that Zainab remains locked in Shah Manzil. Padlocks the main gate of the residence. So no chances are given to Zainab to thwart the wedding. Sabina seems to fear Kainat, along with Zainab ... 26.6.19 hamlet53
The main bit for me was the speculation of Zainab being a victim of domestic violence. I wonder if Mainjaan was aware of the beatings? Does Zainab want to save Saltanat from dying? or save Kainat from criminality? Also what’s in it for Sabina , revenge against Mainjaan?
Thanks Lonelythots,Irshita, Mishfan forfollowing my musings love hammie
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