Razia Episode-2 Review: A play within a play

Razia, Express TV’s newly started mini-series is down with its 2nd episode! The play is set as a play within a play. Ravishing Mahira Khan’s character is the nameless narrator of the story or maybe she is telling her own story. Mahira Khan has just aced her character with her amazing energy and enchanting charms. In the previous episode, we get to know about a girl Razia who is quite unwanted in her parent’s life. In this episode, we get to see more of the poor girl’s sufferings.

The narrator begins with Razia’s story who is now grown up and doing wonders with her cycling she won through Cola bottles. It is shown that she still befriends that boy Mannu and it seems that their bond has become stronger with time. Razia is talented as she beats all her neighboring boys with her cycling skills. She dares to dream of winning a gold medal in cycling.

Well all her dreams get shattered when her father says “Razia Bari ho gayee hay” so she should stay home now. Razia fails to understand what it means. She has tried to examine her clothes and size but she has not grown how come she has become Bari? She questions her mother why can’t she go outside to play her mother tells her that there are evil people out there from whom she needs to hide.

Razia endures this silently and she somehow tells Mannu to realize the fact that “Wo ab bari ho gayee hay” but the poor boy also fails to understand the fact that “wo kaisay chota reh gaya” The difference Razia’s mother is doing is now getting on Razia’s nerves why always her brother gets a chicken’s leg? The narrator faces criticism from the audience when she makes a bold comparison between a chicken’s leg and men’s obsession with it. The connotation she makes is quite bold.

Razia tries to help herself out by calling the cops and telling them about the evil people her mother has told her about and she is in possible danger. She takes the cops to her house little she knows that she is calling her father’s wrath. Razia’s only fault is that she questions. She starts questioning her father when he tries to silence her by saying ‘tum abhi choti ho?’ She says “aap ne hi tu kaha tha k Razia bari hogaee hay”? which she is rewarded by a tight slap on her face by her father. Razia has given up on dreaming and it seems that she has destroyed her beloved cycle. The death of her cycle is the metaphor for the death of her dreams. Much more to come in poor Razia’s life.