As we bid our goodbyes to Shahmir and Ana, here’s our final verdict on the last episode. Catch up on DuniyaPur here.
A great initiative to bring a fresh genre to Pakistani Entertainment, but which couldn’t really reach its true potential due to weak execution, trying too hard and not a well-knit script. Nonetheless, it is important to acknowledge that DuniyaPur has accomplished something different and unique in many areas.
The final episode often determines audience verdict. It can either save or ruin a good project. With DuniyaPur the last episode seemed to do the latter.
DuniyaPur will provide opportunities for many new projects.
The drama will also show the way for writers to examine storytelling and make it stand apart. The creators were brave to feature a story which was not a typical saas-bahu conspiracy or extra marital affair. The producers helped elevate standards and promote the mindset of investing in set design, location, and costumes.
The drama showed that if a story has the essential elements—romance, revenge, action, suspense, a strong script—and focuses on human relationships, audiences will watch it.
The final episodes are important as they conclude the narrative for the viewers and address unanswered mysteries and questions. But the last episode of DuniyaPur failed to do that unfortunately. It not only left us with question marks, but also made us ask: why we watched the drama for so many weeks? What was the purpose of this story?
Just to witness entire groups of Adams and Nawabs being eliminated?
The only redeeming feature of the episode was the end when Mir Hassan gets news that both Shahmir and Ana’s ambulances are no longer in police custody.
The Battle
Nauroz Adam was in the building so where was Ana going to look for him? We see her facing him once, then she is off, wandering somewhere else, then running off to call him out only suddenly in the open green field.
Every character was fighting in isolation, there didn’t seem to be a single consolidated effort as a team, as a family, for any tribe to be fighting a battle against their enemies, which seemed to be the main objective of the battle scene. However, it came out as completely disconnected and failed to leave impact.
We kept waiting that someone, either Nawab or Adam would mention why they are each other’s enemies, we kept waiting that somehow Ana will learn that Nauroz Adam didn’t kill her mother, that she will realise how her father had played her. Even when Shahmir and Ana were pointing guns at each other, we thought Shahmir would tell her the truth about his grandmother. But there were no reveals and then suddenly, everyone was lying dead.
Nawab is dead, Zamir is dead… and we are left bewildered. The audience deserved to watch a more dramatic scene where Nawab needed to suffer and be tortured, but alas, it was not to be.
So, was it Nimra, or Mir Hassan or Zameer, who was responsible for Ana and Shahmir escaping police custody?
The Characters & Our Hopes for Them
Ana’s character could never experience the growth we were waiting for, to have the wisdom to see through people. Shahmir never learnt his lessons or developed a sharpness to beat his own father at his game. On paper, these two vastly different characters make a great couple for an intriguing story, but in execution, they felt half-baked. Till this date we do not know why Ana betrayed Shahmir, we kept waiting for the drama to reveal her perspective, her real reasons.
It is extremely frustrating to build curiosity, make audiences inquisitive and then move on to the next stage without answering these confusions.
The Causes We Felt For, But Then Didn’t!
Most importantly we struggled with the cause DuniyaPur wanted us to feel passionate about or win our loyalties for. Sometimes we found ourselves attached to the cause of revenge, then it became love, then power and then simply, justice, but none of the themes was strong enough to become an umbrella for the rest of the causes and drive the project ahead on that basis. Watching DuniyaPur was an experience of being invested in various causes, but only periodically. The script could have chosen one theme – revenge, love, power, money, or drugs and then wholeheartedly focused on that theme. It kept shifting from one to the other and losing us in the journey.
Was DuniyaPur attempting to highlight the cause of “No Go” areas in Pakistan? If it were, it was a great idea, but the makers could not really get the message across.
In recap, with some positives and some negatives we say adios to DuniyaPur and the story of Adam, Nawab, Ana and Shahmir…
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DuniyaPur is written by Radain Shah and directed by Shahid Shafaat, presented by Multiverse Entertainment. The cast includes Sami Khan, Ramsha Khan, Khushhal Khan, Nauman Ijaz, Manzar Sehbai, Ali Raza, Zaib Rehman, Shamyl Khan, Nayyer Ejaz, Yousuf Basheer Qureshi (YBQ) , Saima Qureshi, Erum Akhter, Ali Raza , Hassan Niazi, Farah Sadia, Mashal Khan, Hammad Siddiqui, Amra Zahid Kazi, Hussain Ali Shah Jamote, Mashal Karim, Najam us Saqib, Sarfaraz, Saad Ali, Jhalak, Huma Batool, Asad Ali, Palvasha, Awn Raza, Asad Shah, Aftab Ahmed and more.
