Aap Ki Izzat: Tabish’s flashbacks about his marriage and life with Beena beautifully show what Beena really valued—love, respect, and family. Beena’s story is the story of millions of women from a generation who sacrificed with open hearts, only to never truly be appreciated the way they should have been.
While the drama echoes that sacrificial nature, it also makes you realize why the young women of today might not be like Beena: because they witnessed what happened to women in their families who sacrificed so much.
We love the fact that even though Maa Ji didn’t stop him, which was a sad, sad thing—at least she chose not to be part of Tabish’s plan to murder Beena.
Initially, it seemed that maybe she had something to do with how Tabish treats Beena now, but it seems like it is all Tabish’s own doing.
We thought that after so much has happened in their lives, it would not be interesting to see Tabish & Beena’s backstory, but hats off to the writer and director for beautifully integrating it into the storytelling. We not only enjoyed it, but it also gave us deep insights into their relationship dynamics and explained a lot about Beena’s present actions.
The scenes showing how she chooses to give him a glass of juice and fan him when he returns after an entire day of not finding any work, and how she sacrifices her own comfort for him and never even once calls him out for not being able to earn money—were extremely beautiful and revealed Beena’s true nature.
The mother-in-law feeling the pinch when Tabish gives his first major earnings to Beena was also a very realistic portrayal of a mother’s emotions.
Can we really blame Beena for choosing to run away with Behram? After all she did for Tabish and his family, why are we expecting her to quietly accept her fate now?
Tabish crying while looking at Beena’s picture and talking to himself was another very interesting angle. It manages to move you, maybe because it shows him to not be completely detached & emotionless towards her. But then the tragedy of this character and script is that the very next moment, he wants to murder her.
So there are two sides to Tabish. Ahsan Khan has delivered such a fine performance, and Umera Ahmed has penned it so beautifully, that you can’t hate Tabish completely.
The drama makes you think on these issues in a very subtle but highly impactful manner.
Tabish blames Beena for all his actions, but when Beena does the same, his izzat and sukoon are at stake—yet when he was doing the exact same things himself, it was completely justified.
Aap Ki Izzat is calling out all men on how they can find fault with an action they themselves are guilty of.
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