It was a hurray moment and the writer, director, and the actors have gelled as a team to bring forth the awkwardness of two individuals who are on the verge of finding common ground to converse. Zaroon-Kashaf’s first telecon where Kashaf was not biting his head off and was infact talking less then Zaroon 🙂 I was eagerly waiting and wishing for this very moment since their engagement and the makers of the show did not disappoint. Unromantic response from Kashaf : “Haan Mila! Gol Hai!!” Romantic Zaroon: “Chand nazar aaya? Hai na Khubsurat!” This is a girl who has lived with rejection from a man, her father, and is now slowly and warily stepping into a hitherto unknown territory of being a recipient of male attention, which has slightly softened the rough edges but there is a long way to go before she fully entrusts her heart in the hands of a man. Kashaf Murtaza, painfully practical and a woman who would not recognize romance if it rained roses on her for a week she glowed in the aftermath of her engagement to Zaroon, rose tinged cheeks, sparkle in her eyes, and a comforting ‘tehrav’ that was never there before.

Zaroon Junaid, a romantic at heart! Who would have guessed a self-proclaimed Casanova would fumble nervously and measure his words to a woman? With the right woman, a man always feels the compulsion to say the right words. Forgive me if am as nervous as Zaroon about this review some scenes were beyond description – moments you can reminisce best with ‘you had to be there’. Laced with a generous amount of humor, this episode is easily one of the top favorites of the show. While the dialogues have always spoken in ‘Zindagi Gulzar Hai’, in this episode, the silences were captured so beautifully, they bespoke more than words. A classic example of a perfect episode – simple, straight forward, and honest to heart entertaining more than half way through the show, Zindagi Gulzar Hai gives us a winner of an episode that is flawless in every sense of the word.

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