I'll tell you why Rehan never worked! I was watching Humsafar, the superhit show of 2012 & I realized the initial rumour about BI finding it's main storyline from it is true! The circumstances were different in case of AsharKheerat and ZainAliya but d base indeed seemed same! If someone watches the show pointing out the similarities wont be difficult ,although the characterisation and portrayal of BI was totally different. It now seems to me that Zubair and Aliya angle was indeed the mother twist Farhan had spoken of at the beginning but since audience rejected the track he found out a different way to separate Zaya n show halala. He went wrong in several areas, first was the fact that he thought that Zubair could be taken as a separating Zaya reason which was lame bcz in Humsafar the leads did not develop as deep a relationship as Zaya ever and hence broke off with an MU! However he was made to realize this by fans so he came up with this disastrous track killing off maamu&making Zain believe that Aliya, the person who could be the last one to harm maamu, whom he himself called Maamu ki Bhanji was responsible for it. And tried making Rehan a new entrant with whom the audience dint even have a connect to pose as a saviour. Well,that too failed real bad, because Rehan who promised Aliya to save her marriage,slept through the 3months of Iddah period finding and telling Zain the truth after the third talaq, so he was of no use there too. Aliya never tried to do much during the whole Iddah herself, a detective in all other cases was made to just plead her husband on the last few days of her iddah to save the marriage instead of making her find the culprit like how she would have done in the initial days or even as she is doing now! so everyone behaved unlike themselves to make way for a single unappealing new entry!
Second blunder, Rehan switched sides and came across as creepy. I mean while Zain called him bhai, Rehan never lived up to be the bhai. He followed Aliya to hyderabad and never felt the need to inform Zain, the brother but he kept saying Zain is aziz to him! Like how I failed to get that! While Aliya kept reminding him Zain was,is and will remain her only love for life, Rehan was shown gaping at Aliya not even chiding his kids for calling Aliya,a girl they called 'didi' at their first meeting, Ammi. He always gaped at Aliya btw even when she was Zain's wife and there was no sign of divorce!
The kids, one of whom is immensely popular, failed to appeal. Why? The answer is simple, they seemed so forcefully inserted into the story. I cud never connect with their bond with the father, nor with their bond with Aliya. Yes, Aliya loved them but Aliya herself is so young in the story. A college pass out(remember the reason she gave Maamu for going to Bhopal after ILU party to collect her graduation certificates from Bhopal University) and an extremely young man, Zain's wife (who himself was syudying in London before his marriage) become the pseudo mom of kids as big as Rehan's obviously the bond wont come across! While Fahad's kids even tho' seen for v.short while had this special bond with both chachu and chachi!
Rehan's self proclaimed mahaan act has always been annoying! Honestly, Rehan has never been of much use in the story yes, he did bring out Nafeesa's truth but he was too late. Nonetheless even if we say, he helped I dint get why he followed Aliya to Hyderabad without informing Zain! Creepy much? Again even his self proclaimed mahaan act made him jump in n tell Aliya dat he will do Halala n be her saviour was annoying and came across as chance pe dance. And then when Aliya made it clear that only Zain is my sauhar even after halala he now goes talking abt giving her biwi ka darjaa? Like dude u keep ur darjaa to urself, she doesnt need it!
People saying he was to take Maamu's place? I wonder if Maamu would let Zaya separate n then volunteer for halala Rofl! I mean he cant even be a friend to Zaya let alone be Maamu!
Farhan thought he could do without a Zain and sideline him and any new entry could replace him? Well, I cant believe the makers to have such a delusion! BI had a different target audience not the typical regular saas bahu type where the leads r sidelined and the heroine marries a random new entry. It has a unique flavour and charm that is brought about by Zaya and there's going nowhere without Zain since Zain completes Zaya! I'm amazed how the CVs thought that a character as loved as Zain's and a couple as popular as popular as Zaya could be done away with and audience would still watch!! Like that's not humanly possible! Infact, Zaya gave colors a stand internationally which never happened b4 they hv been loved worldwide and it's them who have become the face of colors! So Rehan only ruined things, halala hitting the lowest ebb trp wise n even international viewership wise!
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