#and then murtasim

[hanaasbananas]

TERE BIN WHAT THE FUCK WAS THOSE LAST FEW MINUTES I AM SO ANGRY

[mxsakali]

When she's making him chai and she asks him sugar or honey and he says nothing just take a sip. (his flirting skills peaked here)

[prbni]

Its really common when you read any romance novel or fanfic, to find a line that says,"His heart skipped a beat." But I have seen actors portraying the emotion only twice in the dramaland.

1)True Beauty: Seojun and Jukyung

The bus stop scene in epi 9 where Seojun sees Jukyung dozing off at the bus stop, he laughs and sits beside her. Soon after, Jukyung's head falls on his shoulder. And with Hwang Inyeop's impeccable acting- the slight movement of his eyebrows and eyeball getting larger, that this was the moment Seojun's heart skipped a beat.

2) Tere Bin: Murtasim and Meerab

Unfortunately, I didn't get the exact GIF for this scene

In episode 20 of this drama, while having a conversation about their situation, Murtasim suddenly felt a twitch in his injured arm and gasped slightly. Upon noticing, Meerab put her hand over his hand and asked if that hurt- initiating a physical contact voluntarily for the very first time. Surprised and astonished Murtasim looked at her in awe. Wahaj Ali's expression for the particular scene was stellar. With him lifting his eyes,gazing at her softly while taking a gulp down his throat it was so clear that his heart skipped a beat.

[southasiansource]

toh chhod kyun nahi dete? chhodna hal nahi hai. toh kya hai hal? saath reh kar apna yaar karna. doosre ko apni mohabbat mein giraftaar kar lena, taake woh khud ko aapke hawale kar de.

[Image ID: ten gifs of Wahaj Ali and Yumna Zaidi as Murtasim and Meerab from Tere Bin episode 20. The original Urdu dialogues are in white and yellow, and the subtitles are in blue and green respectively.:

GIF 1: Murtasim covering his injury with his good hand. Meerab reaches out to touch him, laying her hand over his.

GIF 2: Murtasim moving his good hand so he's almost grasping Meerab's.

GIF 3: Meerab looking up from the injury at Murtasim in surprise.

GIF 4: Meerab placing her hand tighter in Murtasim's as she asks him a question. He runs a thumb over her knuckles, dropping his gaze from hers to stare down at their hands together, then nodding slightly. The text reads, "Ek baat poochoon?" and the subtitle reads, "Can I ask you something?"

GIF 5: Meerab looking up at Murtasim as she asks, "Mujhe bachaya kyun tha?" The subtitle reads, "Why did you save me?"

GIF 6: A shot of just their hands. Murtasim is holding Meerab's hand in his injured one, the other running over her bangle, past her wrist before tucking under their joined hands to hold her one hand with both his tightly.

GIF 7: Murtasim watching Meerab with a pained crease between his brows as he says, "Tumhein na bachaata toh khud bhi zinda na reh pata." The subtitle reads, "If I hadn't saved you, I wouldn't have been able to live, either.

GIF 8: Murtasim's hand sliding up and into Meerab's hair, pushing it back from her face as he cradles it. Both of Meerab's hands are balanced around his sling.

GIF 9: A close-up of Meerab, Murtasim's thumb stroking down the side of her face as he cradles her head with one hand.

GIF 10: Murtasim watching Meerab with sincerity, pleading her to understand what he's saying.

/end ID]

[mirambles]

What is Nooran smoking?

In E43 of Tere Bin, Meerab just blamed Murtasim for abandoning her despite loving her! I know there is no logic left in this show, but Nooran is plunging Meerab to new lows. From the start, Meerab has had zero remorse for her actions. Murtasim was right when he called her out in last week’s episode that she never accepts her faults and blames others. She is quick to judge him as a philanderer and doubt he is having an affair based on him not being home for one night, one night; but is upset when he judged her after seeing her at Rohail’s place. Hypocrisy much. She wants to be respected and revered but won’t offer the same to others. Her anger towards Murtasim is misplaced, she doesn’t feel any guilt of breaking his trust seconds later after he beared his soul to her.

She is not willing to accept her fault for not doing enough due diligence on the guy despite Murtasim’s warnings. She can believe the two day love of Anas, but is blind to the efforts her husband has put into their marriage and all the times he stood by her. She helped his sister elope, faked romance him while hiding that his sister’s lover was in their own house, the guy believed her till he saw an actual video of her helping Mariam elope, she never was honest with him about her actions, and yet he should have listened to her point of view.

The guy went against his own feudalistic mindset and Hitler of a mother to meet the sister’s boyfriend’s family to support Meerab. She refused to believe him when he said the mother was not of good character and the house was a brothrel. Meerab blinded by her false pride and I will fight for every woman’s right to choose her life partner, forgot to do basic risk assessment of the chosen life partner; such was her pride to rebel against forced marriages in the house. Forced marriages are wrong, but so is eloping - which sensible, educated woman supports this nonsense! We all know by now how Nooran’s twisted mind works - Murtasim is going to apologise to Meerab again , he has turned into one doormat who has lost the ability to use his brains. Nooran and Meerab are just peak examples of woke feminism. I haven’t seen a worse written female lead, oh wait there is the passive aggressive Maheer in Mujhe Pyaar Hua Tha.

Why am I still watching Tere Bin 🤷🏻‍♀️, it gives such sadistic pleasure to trash a show! I haven’t hate watched a show in long time! But at the same time I can’t forget that this show introduced me to Wahaj Ali and Murtasim , so am watching it only for him!

[aashiqeddiediaz]

jitni beizzati tum meri duniya walon ke saamne karwa rahi ho - jis din...jis din mere kandhe uska bojh na utha sake, uss din sab se pehle moo ke bal tum girogi, meerab

[Image ID: four gifs of Wahaj Ali as Murtasim and Yumna Zaidi as Meerab from Tere Bin episode 12. The text is both the original Urdu, and the English subtitle under it:

GIF 1: Meerab narrowing her eyes at Murtasim as she says, "Tumne jo mere saath kiya hai na, uske liye main tumhein chhodoongi nahi." The English subtitle reads, "For what you've done to me, I won't leave you."

GIF 2: Murtasim pleadingly pulling Meerab closer as he says, "Please mujhe mat chhodna." The English subtitle reads, "Please don't leave me."

GIF 3: Meerab reeling back, taken aback by his words. Her brow is still furrowed.

GIF 4: Murtasim watching her with pleading eyes.

/end ID]

bonus:

[BONUS ID: Murtasim holding Meerab’s hand and wrist while she looks up at him, keeping them close together as he pleads, “mera kya hoga.” The translation reads, “What will happen to me then?” /end ID]

[multi-fandom-imagines]

MURTASIM: I'm the main character of the show.

MURTASIM'S WHITE SHAWL: Uhhh, so i spoke to production....

[isittoolatenow]

“woh meri biwi hai. aur qayamat tak meri biwi hi rahegi”

[mastmalangs-blog]

[noor09]

He's the moment, and he knows it😮‍💨🤌

[truegodofthearena]

haya hugging murtasim from behind in the new promo and of course he thinks it’s meerab and of course meerab walks in !

tell me where I should go puke now

Pls for the love of god someone send haya away 🤦🏻‍♀️

[mansoureeeee]

[famiyazzz]

Meerasim💜

[kaahaani]

Summary: It takes Murtasim's life being in danger again to push Meerab into finally letting herself admit what she feels for the man she claimed to hate is not just 'mohabbat' but an all-consuming 'ishq' that leaves her unravelled.

[southasiansource]

main tumhaara dil nahi jeet paa raha, kisi aur ko kya haasil karoonga?

[Image ID: two gifs of Wahaj Ali as Murtasim Khan from episode 38 of Tere Bin. He is talking to Meerab in their bedroom:

GIF 1: Murtasim looking softly at Meerab, shaking his head as he reassures her by saying, "Koi nahi hai". The subtitle reads, "There's no one."

GIF 2: A continuation of the previous gif, Murtasim's brow is wrinkled gently as he emphasizes to his wife, "Bas tum ho." The subtitle reads, "There's just you."

/end ID]

[mirambles]

Wahaj Ali to the Rescue…

I have been in a Kdrama slump having barely watched 3 dramas so far. Dropped 2 and one is ongoing. I have been watching a lot of crime and dark series in British and American TV. Farzi is the only Hindi series I have watched in this new year and I loved it 😍

I have been craving good series from the subcontinent and asked a few folks on twitter to recommend Pakistani dramas. I haven’t watched them in last 7-8 years. So after 3 dramas, I started watching Tere Bin and got totally bowled over by Wahaj Ali’s Murtasim!

So I hunted for more dramas of his and am currently watching Mujhe Pyaar Hua Tha which is also currently airing and his 2021 drama Ishq Jalebi. I’m so impressed by his acting, screen presence, charisma and charm with a capital C! The current craze behind him is reminiscent of the craze behind Fawad Khan a decade ago when people discovered Humsafar and Zindagi Gulzar Hain. There is none like Fawad and he is an eternal favourite, but I’m totally falling for each and ever character that Wahaj is essaying with such finesse and panache.

Be it the proud and arrogant but hopelessly in love Murtasim

Be it the soft hearted, reticent Saad who harbours one-sided love for Maheer (literally watching MHPT only for him, cause the show is an utter disaster of a melodrama that reminds me why I don’t watch many series from the sub continent)

Or my favourite character of his right now - Basim from Ishq Jalebi. Basim is so flawed - he is immature, impulsive, stubborn, a tad selfish, sometimes a man child and even carries an inferiority complex but once he realises he is in love with Bela , he fights for it like no one’s business. His comic timing and dialogue delivery is impeccable - his dynamic with his parents is best part of the drama after his lovely, soft chemistry with the female lead Mahida. Her soft spoken, caring , mature Bela is the perfect foil to Basim. The drama is also so wholesome with fun characters that there isn’t a single moment of boredom! It reminded me of my favourite Marathi show Eka Lagnachi Goshta (The story of a marriage).

Wahaj Ali is playing 3 absolutely different characters in the 3 dramas of his that am watching simultaneously and I cannot believe it’s the same actor. The mannerisms, the voice modulation, the gait , the look is completely different. That’s the hallmark of a great actor ! Colin Firth, Fawad Khan, Kim Seon Ho were my biggest actor crushes that gave the most epic characters in history of TV viewing and now Wahaj has entered this elite list. Actors when they are on my screen, I can’t take my eyes off the screen.

Wahaj Ali has saved my 2023 TV viewing cause I have seen his filmography and his drama arc is so similar to Fawad’s that I can’t wait to watch his dramas. Fawad’s Ashar & Zaroon, Wahaj’s Murtasim and Basim are all heavily flawed characters and yet both these actors have made us ladies swoon and fall in love with them thanks to their amazing acting abilities and effortless performance. It’s an added bonus that his voice , his mischievous smile and the look in his eyes when he is in love is totally swoon worthy!

So until I find the right Kdrama again, this space will be reserved to obsess over the awesomeness of Wahaj Ali 😉