He walks besides me…for Majid, on his 4th death anniversary

MAJID – Prince of Melbourne & Hero of Lahore (RIP)

June 25, 2013: Today marks Majid’s 4th anniversary. We as his family members feel proud to be associated with his sweet memories. He was a guest sent to us from Allah SWT and we thank our Lord for sending such a wonderful person to us, who enlightened our lives till his last breath.

He gave us hope, courage and ideas that have helped us in handling the problems in our life. Today I live in Australia. I am here just because of Majid, who I always regard as Captain James Cook from our extended family. He was the first person in our maternal and parental families who landed in Australia as a student in March 2002. Those days I was just planning to apply for the Canadian or Australian immigration, but was finding it bit difficult to choose between the two options. Majid encouraged me to opt for Australia in spite of the fact that all my close class fellows were applying for Canada.

I listened to him and opted for Australia, which had a very difficult immigration procedure for overseas engineering professionals. Majid was the youngest member of our loving family. He was 8 year younger to me and Rashid and we loved him so much. He suffered a lot due to his irrecoverable disease Bipolar Disorder, which affects highly intellectual people. After fighting against this fatal disease for more than 4 years, finally he gave up and left us on 25th of June, 2009 forever.

Honestly speaking we have never accepted it that he is no more with us. He is still with us in the form of his memories. In fact I feel that he walks beside me every morning when I walk to the train station for catching train to reach my office. My day starts with his memories and when I am in my bed for sleeping, he is the last person who says me goodbye at that time. I never forget to pray for him before sleeping. Similarly he is the first one in my prays after offering any of the everyday Islamic prayers.

Allah SWT is the kindest and most merciful and we are 100% sure that Majid is in the heavens. However we miss him a lot and on any of our achievements, his absence is felt badly which makes us sad. Our houses in Lahore and Sydney are named after him as ‘Al-Majid’. We (Rashid and I) have pledged that anyone who ignored Majid on his death is out of our life and we will always fulfill our commitment with his noble soul.

Majid used to listen this song of Brian Adams in Melbourne, whenever he lost his hopes during the initial tough days of his settling. He played this song once for me when I was little sad in Melbourne on not getting a job. Today I feel that perhaps he is giving us this message from the other world where he is now, and where he is healthy and happy with no depressing thoughts…. Just read!!!

HERE I AM

Here I am – this is me
I come into this world so wild and free
Here I am – so young and strong
Right here in the place where I belong

It’s a new world – it’s a new start
It’s alive with the beating of a young heart
It’s a new day – in a new land
And it’s waiting for me – here I am

Oh it’s a new world – it’s a new start
It’s alive with the beating of a young heart
Yeah it’s a new day – in a new land
And it’s waiting for me – here I am

Thori Si Wafa Chahiye: Analysis of Geo TV Drama Serial

I recently watched Urdu TV drama Thori Si Wafa Chahiye on Youtube. This drama was telecast in 2011 on Hum TV. However I could not watch it live and now in Sydney I got a chance to watch the 18 episodes of this nicely directed drama. Syed Wasi Shah is a talented script writer, who wrote this drama. One of the most popular OST ‘Jeena Koi Mushkil Tou Naheen’ is the soul of this drama, sung by none other than world known qawwal Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Drama evolves around a family of four; Sajid Hassan (playing character of Sheraz) is head of the family and Iffat Raheem (playing character of Rania) is his wife. They have two cute young kids named as Maham and Arsal. There is lack of understanding between the parents and due to the arrogant attitude of Sheraz the marriage results in a divorce.

Sheraz is shown as a corrupt government officer, who has love affair with a beautiful young girl Mehreen (played by Mehwish Hayat) belonging to a poor family. He leaves his family for Mehreen and later gets married to her. He also forcefully takes his kids into his custody. The story moves on. Rania somehow gets her daughter and Sheraz agrees with her on keeping son with him. Rania gets married to a nice man Jasim (played by Adnan Siddiquee) who has a son from his expired wife.

Story is beautifully written and shows that a cheater gets cheated end of the day. Same happens with Sheraz when he is dismissed from his job on corruption charges. He, on advice of his assistant, transfers his assets in his new father-in-law’s name just for saving his skin. He is sent to jail after the investigations. Sheraz when comes out of the prison after a deal according to which he could not join his office again, he goes to his wife who is running love affair with his assistant (role played by Shamoon Abbasi). She asks him to get lost and tells that she would not give him a single penny.

Sheraz starts a new life with his son Arsal, who is diagnosed with brain tumour. From here story takes a dynamic turn. Sheraz doesn’t have enough money for his son’s treatment as with each passing day his son is getting closer to the death. How he manages the funds and how Rania reacts on her son’s sickness is the beauty of this great story. Actor Akhtar Husnain, who performed role of Rania’s brother Arif, also gave exceptional performance.

I would highly recommend this classic drama to all Urdu drama viewers. Only objectionable thing is the unnecessary bold dressing of Mehwish Hayat. Yasir Nawaz has done great job as a director and has proven that he is a talented guy.