Dil-e-Muztar

Dil e Muztar (Urdu: دلِ مضطر‎, English: The Anxious Heart) is a 2013 Pakistani drama serial based on the love triangle story between Sila, Adeel, and Zoya.The serial was well received by the audience and was lauded for the lead performances.^[1] Serial is broadcasting on Hum TV, first aired on 23 February 2013. It is directed by Shahzad Kashmiri and written by Aliya Bukhari, casting Imran Abbas Naqvi, Sanam Jung and Sarwat Gilani in leading roles.^[2]

The show was aired in Middle East on channel MBC Bollywood and in India on Zindagi from 6 February 2015, under the title Dil-e-Nadaan.

Plot

Sila who lives with her father and step-mother loves her cousin Adeel a lot. Adeel's mother works in sila's house and Adeel works in a company but also works for sila's parents. Sila is very close to her aunt (Adeel's mother) which is disliked by her parents. Sila's mother plans to get her to marry her nephew which is rejected by Sila for she loves Adeel. Eventually, she runs away from her house when her parents try to force her into a marriage. Adeel, who does not have any type of feelings for Sila, is blamed for this. He takes Sila back home, trying to prove his innocence. Sila's father plans to get Sila married to Adeel the very next day, fearing the dishonor her acts could cause him. Adeel is forced to marry Sila and accepts due to his mother's content nagging. Adeel is shattered due to his mothers demise the day after his marriage.

Adeel and Sila move out after this and start a new life. Adeel treats Sila very rudely, and behaves extremely cold towards her while on the other hand, Sila settles sweetly in her new house. With time, Adeel softens towards Sila due to her endless patience and understanding love. Sila's father shifts to canada which in turn, weakens Sila causing her to collapse due to severe depression. Adeel regrets his previous behaviour towards her and starts caring for her a lot before confessing his hidden love to a sleeping Sila in the hospital; saying : "I've always loved you Sila, you're my whole world. I love you more than you can ever imagine, much more than your love for me", while Sila had secretly heard his every word of confession. Their life changes from here, Adeel starts caring and loving Sila. A friendly neighbor, Zoya, soon enters their life. Life is truly beautiful for Adeel and Sila, Adeel is in ninth cloud with the news of Sila's pregnancy; they are soon blessed with a baby boy named Affan.

Adeel loses his job due to down-sizing and struggles for another job. The situation worsens when Adeel turns bitter due to the constant job-hunt. Affan falls sick and Ahmer offers to help Sila out. Sila takes up the job in Ahmer's company to help Adeel - this hurts Adeel's ego and Zoya uses it to create misunderstandings between Adeel and Sila. Sila tries hard to sort the issues between her and her husband but Adeel, who considers Zoya a good friend, does not believe Sila. Affan's death shatters Sila who blames Adeel for her kid's death and leaves Adeel's house.

Meanwhile, Zoya is making the most of this opportunity to corner Adeel and get him to marry her. Although Adeel wants to be left on his own, Zoya carries on visiting him. Adeel overhears Zoya's wish to marry him, as she discusses that overtly with her mother. Adeel responds to this by later proposing to Zoya. Meanwhile, Sila is back at her parents' house, living with her mother and is ready to accept and inherit her late father's wealth. Sila gives birth to a baby (of Adeel), and she names him Afaan. Sila decides not to tell her only child about his real father.

Five years later, Sila is now successfully in charge of her late father's business and is expanding her business with the help of family friends, Nabeela, Sami and Ahmer, as well as the support of her mother. On the other hand, Adeel and Zoya are living through a rocky relationship with no children due to Zoya's fertility issues. When Adeel's company acquires new management, he and Zoya, as well as other staff couples, are invited to an evening dinner to meet the new management team. The new managers are Sila and Ahmer. Upon seeing and discovering this, Adeel and Zoya are left in total shock.

Nabila and Sami were initially Adeel's friends but upon hearing what he had done to Sila, they turned their backs on him. Adeel goes to their house to defend himself. He says that, "Sila left the house herself. I didn't tell her to leave. Affan's death was just an excuse to leave, she wanted to leave before. She wanted to go with that Ahmer. But one thing is true, I still love her. She never left my mind, even for a second." Meanwhile, Sila is listening to all of this by hearing through the window. She leaves in tears before Nabila insults Adeel and tells him to leave her house and never show his face, again.

Zoya and her mother make a plan to ask Adeel to bring Sila back, so that he and Zoya can get money and become rich. But, Adeel refuses firmly. Adeel and Sila constantly meet by co-incidence, in malls, in elevators. Adeel goes to her office, in her company and even though, Sila tells him to leave, he doesn't. He says what he said to Sami the other day, but he also says something else, "I never loved Zoya, I still love you. Why did you leave me and go with that Ahmer?". Sila screams at him to get out and reluctantly, Adeel goes.

Adeel gets very upset and all he can think about is Sila. He says her name in his sleep, the whole night. Zoya gets very angry because of that and goes to Sila's office and insults her. Zoya says that Sila never loved Adeel and now Sila is all alone and missing Adeel which is why she's trying to steal him. But, Sila replies that she is not alone, she has something Zoya can't even hope for (Afaan). After this incident, Sila fires Adeel. Adeel goes to the office to talk to Sila. There he sees Sila with Afaan. He gets really mad and thinks that Afaan is Ahmer's child. He goes to Sila's house and insults her by saying that he didn't know that she could go as far as having a relationship with Ahmer and having his child. Sila confesses the truth by saying, "Afaan is not Ahmer's child! Afaan is my child! and by bad luck, he's yours too! Everybody knows that! But you, you couldn't even recognize your own child!". Adeel is left shocked upon hearing this and Sila asks him to leave. Sila's mom asks Ahmer to get the divorce papers so Sila can move on, forget about Adeel and start a new life (with Ahmer) and Sila agrees to sign the papers.

Then, Adeel walks in front of Sila's car at street while she's driving, almost causing her to run him over and makes her stop. Sila asks him why does he keeps on coming in her way and why can't he just leave. Adeels says that he will not only leave her way, but he will even leave the city, if she gives him Afaan. Sila asks him why is he making a scene in the middle of a road. Adeel says that it's not a scene and that she is his wife. But Sila denies, saying that there is no relationship between them, that relationship ended the day she left his house. Adeel exclaims that it was her own decision to leave the house but Sila replies that there was nothing left for her in that house, not her child and not her husband. Adeel tells her that he still loves her but Sila says that she hates him. Ahmer comes between them and tells them to talk about their problems at a private place, not in the middle of the road. Adeel says that he knows that Sila has decided to start a new life and he says that he's going to take Afaan away from her. Adeel tells Zoya about his child and says that Sila can't take his child away from him.

He goes to a lawyer but the lawyer tells him that it's really difficult because Afaan is a small child and that Adeel hasn't kept any contact with his wife for the past 5 years. He didn't give her any money and that he even got married for the second time. The only way to get Afaan back is to proof that Sila is a bad woman. Adeel leaves, He goes to Sammy and tells her that he has lost the battle without fighting because he can't accuse someone he really loves of cheating and that the sad thing is that none of them could understand. "In her eyes, I'm the worst person and in my eyes she is guilty.", he says. But he wants to see Afaan just once and asks Sammy to talk with Sila. He promises that he will leave the city afterwards, forever. Sammy refuses and tells Adeel that he should do that himself. Adeel comes to see Sila at her house and tells her that he wants to talk. Sila tells him that he has already said a lot that day in the middle of the road, and asks how much more does he wants to hurt her. Adeel says that he never meant to hurt her and that God knows, that was never his intention. But he was the reason for all her pain. And now, he can't even face himself, but he wants to apologize to her for all the pain in her life. But Sila says that his apologies won't make any difference because they can't bring the time when she lost everything back or change it and that Adeel can't even imagine what she's been through. Adeel says that he knows he's not worth it to be forgiven but that every moment without her was a punishment for him, he really loves her and only her. Sila replies by saying that that's why he got married to Zoya that fast and gave her the place where she belonged, nowhere. Adeel confesses that marrying Zoya was his worst mistake and that He couldn't understand her and when he did, it was too late. Sila asks him to stop it, if he's saying this to meet Afaan because she had thought a lot, and decided that he can meet him because she can't keep Afaan away from his dad's love. Adeel says that he doesn't only want Afaan in his life but he wants Sila to come back too and that they start all over again, together. Sila reminds him that that he's married to Zoya and admits that she doesn't want to take him away from Zoya because she's not like her, and she doesn't want to be like her, either. She can't commit the sin of destroying someone's house. Adeel says that his house never became a home after she left but she only asks him to stay loyal to Zoya. That's his punishment; She says that she never asked him anything in their life and this is her first and last wish.

Adeel's love for Sila has only grown after this, along with his hate for Zoya. He tells Zoya how horrible of a person she is and how good Sila is and that he never loved her but Sila has bound him in this relationship with her forever. And that they will live together as strangers. Zoya thinks about everything she've done that night, getting flashbacks about how she made Afaan sick and how she took Adeel away from Sila. She cries and realizes her mistake. The next day, she asks Adeel to divorce her. Meanwhile, Ahmer has also prepared the divorce papers for Sila and Adeel's separation. Sila tries a lot but she can't sign the papers. Sila apologizes and says that she knows that she has hurt Ahmer a lot. But he says that she didn't, he just wishes he could bring her happiness back.

Meanwhile Zoya visits Sila and apologizes to her. Zoya confesses that it was her who created a rift between Sila and Adeel. But despite her efforts she wasn’t able to make Adeel forget about Sila, neither was she (Zoya) been able to win over Adeel because Adeel still loves Sila. Zoya’s love has always been one-sided which was never acknowledged by Adeel. So she (Zoya) has now divorced Adeel and set him free. Zoya falls on Sila’s feet and begs for forgiveness. She says she has terribly wronged both Sila and Adeel and she can’t turn back the time. It is not apparent whether Sila forgives Zoya or not.

Ahmer, Sila and Afaan are sitting in a car As Ahmer takes them to an unknown destination. Which is revealed to be a park. Sila wonders why are they here and Ahmer her that this is her destiny and commands her to turn around. Adeel is standing there.. Ahmer tells Sila to go to him. Sila steps slowly in his direction while they look at each other without saying anything. As Sila walks towards Adeel, the Title song (Dil-e-Muztar by Alycia Dias) is played in the background, with montage flashback of their past memories together. Ahmer tells Afaan to go to his parents and then leaves them alone. Adeel hugs Afaan and the three of them leave on Adeel's bike.

Cast

• Imran Abbas Naqvi as Adeel, the male protagonist.
• Sanam Jung as Sila,the female protagonist
• Sarwat Gilani as Zoya, the main antagonist
• Saba Hameed as Sila's mother
• Shakeel as Ahmer's father
• Aijaz Aslam as Ahmer
• Ismat Zaidi as Adeel's mother
• Mohsin Gilani as Sila's father
• Rabia Noreen as Zoya's mother
• Shamim Hilaly as Sila's aunt
• Madiha Rizvi as Nabeela

Awards

Soundtrack

The theme song Dil e Muztar was composed by Waqar Ali and sung by Alycia Dias. It was written by Imdad Hussain Imdad. The lines of the song are frequently used during the course of the show.^[3]

References

External links

• Dil-e-Muztar on Facebook
• Official Website
• Hum TV's official Youtube
• Hum TV's official Dailymotion
• Hum TV's official Video channel