Parizad is the highly appreciated novel of Hashim Nadeem which is played as an on-air play on Hum TV nowadays. The drama got high ratings and recognition from various races of life because it raised some issues of self-concerns that are common among the population. The drama revolves around the main character “Parizad”, who is the victim of so many strange situations since the day of his birth.
Parizad’s tale is highlighting the emotional traits of human beings sympathetically and innovatively, so the viewers may realize that human beings are sensitive. Some of the main trends discussed by the novel are displayed in the drama by Parizad, lively and deeply. The tale of self-actualization elaborated some major phenomena that are highlighted for your interest.
Story Line
The story opened up with the birth of Parizad as the fourth sibling in a lower-middle-class family, where the father seemed less interested in his birth. Mother had some humbleness for him so she named him Parizad even he was not a cute and beautiful baby as depicted by the storyline. His journey of life conveyed that poverty is the major concern in leading him to troubles and taunts from the community.
As Parizad is a sensitive character so he gets hurt quickly, he realizes that poverty is the main trait in adding to his deprived situations. Parizad was not attractive to others by looks but he was an aesthete and became a poet. Many girls came into his life but he couldn’t make it because of his poverty, situation, shy nature and gloominess in life.
He realizes the fact that money can mask his ugliness so he manages to earn a lot and then come back to his town. The people starting being attracted to him and give him more reverence as he is a rich person now. This doesn’t make up his mind as Parizad gets more disappointed for the change in behaviour of people for his status.
Parizad quits and feels that finances are also useless assets for him. Finally, Parizad leaves the world by leaving the message for us.”
It is people who judge us and decide that how we have to spend our life, and beauty plus wealth are essential factors in running the life affairs.”
Sensitiveness And Gloominess
Parizad is the main theme of the drama, the sensitive nature made his way to the interest in poetry and writing. In this way, he was able to create a fantasy world that he was unable to afford in real life. His poetry was also gloomy because he had deprived feelings and the things were not in his favour. He is an aesthete but unable to attract women because of his ugliness and poverty. This added further to his sadness!
The character is played in the drama in its original form, the drama is successful in showing the lifestyle, storyline, outlook of Parizad and original acting line by the actor, Ahmed Ali Akbar. The role is justified by the reality of makeover plus peaking acting skills. The display is awesome and attracting high audience!
Expectations Leading To Disappointments
Parizad spent a deprived life, he was struggling for a career too. Lack of resources at home and no support from family was the main cause of his disappointments. He started expecting from the world but again had depravedness because he has received nothing in return. He gave love and humbleness to the world, but the world returned him nothing but rejection.
Parizad, as an aesthete intended towards female characters one by one, but couldn’t make it as he was failing to mask his face. When he can mask his face in the closing of the drama then he realizes that people are honouring not Parizad but his finances. So, most of the expectations are leading to disappointments due to his sensitive traits.
Drama’s Message
All in all, Parizad lost his life at the end, which is the peaking gloominess in the whole play. The story reaches the end with the high opinion of self-actualization that a person is not able to spend his life, the way he intends to. It is because of the extremely judgmental behaviour of society. The drama is conveying a deep message that sensitiveness can kill a person from deep inside.
There are so many human beings who are extremely sensitive, they get disappointed when they receive nothing in return from others. We need to sort out good in the people instead of judging them from their outlook. Parizad quits, but he left a core and critical message to the community.
“The interference of community and the discouraging traits are responsible for hurting humans. Don’t judge the people by their outlook and what you are seeing apparently!