Inkaar Episode 20 Review ( The Delineation Of Social Characters)

Khamoshi tab tak zindah rahi jab tak ziban or khof ne ek dusrey ko baandhey rakha… 

And Hajrah and Shayan eradicated that silence. Their voice is now reaching in every corner of the country, indicating that now fear will no longer be able to hinder them.

Inkaar Episode 20 has brought a new twist in the story and now, one can see the silver lining of justice they can get. They have utilized the power of Social Media well through it their voice, their cry of victimhood has reached at every heart’s doorstep. This thing was missing earlier, I think. Had Hajrah raised her voice on social media during the trial, the story would have been different and the Chaudhry family would not have been able to assassinate Hajrah’s character easily. However, in our society, this step is considered extreme for a girl, yet Hajrah has that courage to go to any extent to get justice. She is not only an individual character but a representation of all those victimized girls who are not fragile. In fact, girls are strong enough to do anything. They just really not have to consider themselves fragile.

Role of Mothers

The role of Rehan’s two mothers are the epitome of two opposite thinking of mothers found in our society. On one hand, there is the character of Naseefa who does not want her son to become a sinner and evil person. She believes in harmony and goodwill. She wants her son to take the right path, the path of tolerance and sanity. She clearly sees that what her son is doing will annihilate him, but she is helpless, she could only make her son understand about the phenomena but she failed in that thing as well. Now she is helpless to do anything because the obsession of love has overtaken Rehan’s senses completely.  She now can requisite her counterpart, the second mother of Rehan to save her son from this dirty game of obsession ere he loses his soul and becomes an animal.

Her second mother, however, does not have the concern about all these things. She only wants her rule as a queen fortified. It is incisive that she only wants to control Rehan and for that purpose, she can fulfill Rehan’s every wrong and right demand. Her role as a queen is described incisively when she says that she wanted Rehan to take his father’s position as a politician.  This thing gives the idea that she wants to remain a queen either as a wife or as a mother of a king because politicians and ministers in our country are considered kings. But the phenomena is somewhat changed now. The video against Rehan on social media is doing its effect to provoke the scorn of common people towards these kings-type politicians and this thing is making Rehan more depressed and insane which could end up in his downfall. It is like Julius Caesar’s Adus Marziye. The time of verdict has come but  has not passed yet! In the end Rehan’s step mother will not  be having anything I reckon, nor husband that is now king or son who is succeeder of his father. So she is about to become a most disastrous and most unfortunate character of the drama, who, in the end, will lose everything.

Father's attitude

One can see clear different of two father’s attitude in saving their children’s from destruction. Where the father of Hajrah (a common man, wants his daughter to win the case so that her soul remains alive. Hajrah is a representation of oppressed girls in our society, and by supporting her, her father wants to give us the message that for god’s sake save your daughter’s soul from death and support them otherwise wolves like Rehan Chaudhry are there to destroy them. And certainly, it is the case that most girls do suicide or take other extreme steps because their father or family does not support them.  This thing has to be changed in our society. On the other hand, Chaudhry only wants her son to live physically; in fact, he does not care about her son’s soul. He only cares about the name and reputation he has because he is a king in our society. Chaudhry is also responsible along with his wife (Rehan’s step-mom) to ruin Rehan, from making him fall in the ditch of hell. Instead of realizing this horrible thing, he wants to make matter worse.  We can surmise the reason behind Rehan’s evilness that is his father’s approbation along with her mother’s tactics. On the other hand, Hajrah’s claim in the interview where she tells about her father’s encouragement throughout every situation is worth appreciating and that makes Hajrah more strong and upright. So the difference between two mentalities of fathers in our society is apparent.

Inkaar- the representation of Society

In short Episode 20 of Inkaar succeeds to elucidate the representation of good and bad characters in our society. The story was started from an Inkaar (refusal) to be exploited, to be dependent, to let one’s soul die, has now ascended to say that  Inkaar to oppression, to the victimization of innocent and poor people by powerful people, everyone should say because (due to social media)Ab Zibaan bhi aazad hai, or soch bhi….  Remember, remain silent against oppression is also a kind of oppression.