A hopeful start with a tragic ending: ‘Sang-e-Mah’ last episode was a rollercoaster of emotions

The past few chaotic weeks of family rivalry between Haji Marjaan (Naumaan Ijaz) and his elder son Hilmand (Atif Aslam) finally came to a close last evening. Hilmand and Hikmat (Zaviyar Ejaz) made up after the former repented for his mistakes and asks Gul Meena (Hania Aamir) for forgiveness and punishment. 

Fans were overjoyed with not one but two romance boats sailing smoothly in the beautiful valley of Laspiran and Ghag is now officially frowned upon as a practice. However, the episode had most users disagreeing with the depiction of suicide as the last resort. 

The Saifee Hasan directorial, Sang-e-Mah, took the audience through a rollercoaster of emotions with its final episode. From a happy, hopeful start with reunions and subtle love expressions between Sheherzaad (Kubra Khan) - Hilmand and Hikmat and Gul Meena and the Jirga (a council of men with assumed authority) criminalise Ghag, the finale took a rather tragic turn with Haji Marjaan and Zarsganga (Samiya Mumtaz) giving up on life. 

However tragic, the scene was engaging with them dying in love and remorse, but together as always. Hence, people have problems with its romanticisation as well. 

After Sang-e-Mah, Atif has a separate fanbase for himself as an actor. A user said that he was so good that with this character, he made Hilmand be his own. “Nobody could give the justice to the character Hilmand Khan like the way Atif Aslam did. He lived the character, he lived the script; he lived Hilmand Khan. Going to miss watching him every Sunday,” a user penned. 

While praising the show, a tweep wrote, “What a wonderful show! But the suicide scripted at the end, that too committed by practicing Muslims is not acceptable in any way! On the contrary, it must be condemned as there is ZERO TOLERANCE for suicide in Islam.” 

Another user wrote that the finale was “great overall” but “suicide should not be promoted on television.” 

A user felt that the show was even better than the 2016 drama Sang-e-Mar Mar that had almost the same cast. “I thought they can't excel after a masterpiece like Sang E Mar Mar a few years back. Yet here we are. This surpassed it. This was phenomenal, just phenomenal. No melodrama, no overacting. Plus the ending and Atif Aslam’s role was just superior.”