Dillagi, another highly promoted new play on TV these days, is one episode down and it’s Mehwish Hayat’s character, more than anything else that is getting the woo-hoo and wows. Her character, named Anmol, is a strong and resilient young woman who’s been playing the man in the house, ever since her father’s death, and in the absence of any other father figure in her life. She lives with her mother and younger sisters and works in a library.
In the opening scene, she encounters two amateur thieves who snatch her purse away but instead of crying and whining (as your average heroine would do) she runs after them and finally manages to catch up, retrieve her purse while beating the crap out of them beech bazaar. A little far-fetched? Sure, but it’s just as much inspirational in a society where too many women prefer to suffer quietly for the fear of making a scene and being condemned for it. Dillagi’s first episode delivers a punch and Anmol delivers a couple of chapairs to the men who snatch her bag, to the boy who tries to get fresh with her in the library and she gives an earful to the lawyers who say they can’t fight her case if she can’t pay their fees. She’s a feisty character and makes the plot very intriguing.