Barzakh Episode 2 Ending Explained: Fawad Khan’s helplessness, Sanam Saeed’s secret and everything in between

It is interesting how a filmmaker let his intrusive thoughts win and shaped a series where spirits wander in the house of the living every night and sometimes even during the day. It is a world set between that of the living and the dead. Fairies are a reality here, and real-life feels fictional as this town continues to be scared about the idea of a man deciding to marry the ghost of his long-dead lover. Barzakh translates to limbo, and we have all seen what it stands for in episode 1. The episode managed to hold us all in a chokehold, and there was no way any of us were remotely capable of taking the idea out of our heads. Barzakh has consumed us, and so has the thought that has gone into making the Asim Abbasi show that stars Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed in the lead.

After premiering the first episode, the makers of the show have now released the second episode, and it is as coded as the first. We meet the king and his obsession with the idea of marrying the ghost of his lover, who sits in Barzakh where she awaits their reunion. The world is afraid because this union between the living and the dead will destroy the real world. The King stays on the graves of the ancestors who were also his criminals in a big way. The second episode grows on you because it captures the elder son Saifullah, played by Fawad M Khan.

Barzakh Episode 2 Ending Explained

Saifullah’s Guilt

It is the story of a boy who was confused by his sexuality and was also witnessing his father eroding away from his life and from the life of his mother. His idea of asking for things from the universe is sacrificing something because it runs on barter. He has sacrificed a whole lot for many things, and it turns out he did not really get those things. But that has only conditioned poor Saifullah to keep himself within the boundaries. As the climax unfolds, we are told how the man who sacrificed his pigeon is now watching his mother live in loneliness. Episode one had him confess that illness did not kill his mother, but loneliness did. But it was he who killed her when he couldn't see her struggling.

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Barzakh takes a wild turn in the finale when it establishes the fact that his act of cleaning his hands all the time doesn't come from a disorder but from his doings that make him live in guilt throughout. He is the killer, or maybe he gave her the freedom that the world of the living did not. But that doesn't change the fact that he is a criminal, and even in his eyes, he knows the crime he has committed.

Shehryar’s Helplessness

Fawad Khan’s Shehryar is an interesting character that is being explored layer by layer. We only know that his wife is no more and he is the only parent Harris has. Harris, who wants to be a comedian making death jokes because that has loomed around him for quite some time, is cracking another in the climax of Barzakh Episode 2. We meet him in the bedroom where he is talking to his father and says he also wants to share it with Grandfather. A possessive Shehryar tells him that this is their thing. One comeback leads to another as they are now fighting about who has more grief over Shehryar’s wife and Harris’ mother passing away. In anger, as they hit each other, Shehryar gets up and runs outside the bedroom only to realize he cannot. What a scene!

Scheherezade's Secret

Scheherezade, played by Sanam Saeed, is the most mystic character in Barzakh. No one knows what she is doing in the grand scheme of things. Who is she? Who is she related to? If not, why is she the only one who knows everything? Episode two end scenes give an idea that she could be a rebel among the royals and help the villagers in defeating the King. We see the villagers destroying pictures of what seem like graves just when Scheherezade tells someone that she will come to the village the next day. There is something hidden.

Barzakh is streaming on Zee5. Stay tuned to OTTplay for more information on this and everything else from the world of streaming and films.

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