Guru – The Positive Actions Of Good People Are Washed Out Through The Negative Actions Of Others & The Entire Community Has To Suffer For It!
Guru is so emotionally invested in Maryam’s wellbeing; it’s endearing to watch! For the first time perhaps, we see a Khwaja Sira as a regular human being, just like the rest of us; with emotions, fears, dreams, and behavior that we can relate to (in total conflict to what we’ve been told to believe) and have been conditioned to see all our lives.
Super Performance
Ali Rehman Khan does a magnificent job as Guru switches from humble & caring to disdain and anger when he goes to drop Maryam’s clothes off to her new mother Nazo. Again, Guru pining and fretting about the baby, listening out for her cries was so relatable, just what a new mother would feel for her baby.
Our Collective Guilt
Nazo’s reaction, ridiculing Guru, kept things real though painful for us. It is hard for people to be good to the Khwaja Sira community, even though these individuals do them no harm, such are the beliefs we’ve grown up with. This is a collective guilt we bear as a society. We have wronged a community and pushed them to the peripheries of society.
Will Guru be A Better Mother Than Nazo?
What was so poignant about the episode was, how we wanted Guru to take the baby back because we felt she wouldn’t be well looked after by her new mom, and we felt he could do better, because he cared. Are we accepting that a Khwaja Sira is capable of looking after a baby just as much as anyone else? If the drama is making us go there, it’s doing a great job at changing mindsets.
Guru making space for Maryam in the sparse living conditions, sleeping on the ground while she sleeps in the charpoy was so endearing (and normal) too.
Wardrobe appreciation
Direction and wardrobe need a shout out here as we spot Guru’s anklet when he woke up in the morning. Minor details add to the storytelling, so thank you for that! We were relieved that the professor saved Guru from police arrest, though Zaman’s hatred for Guru has reached new heights now, and he might do something more harmful in future.
Kashish and Bijli’s Insidious Plan Worked (Unfortunately)
The work of one good person is washed away when people from the same community damage the cause and their actions are judged as belonging to the entire community – something Guru and Suraiya will be judged for – selling a baby whose life he actually saved. It also shows how a community, struggling to be accepted in society has to fight within itself too, to achieve gains – but isn’t that what every community does, then why do we judge Khwaja Siras alone and generalize their actions?
