Hurmat Episode 12: heartbroken Tabish told to quit or face Tony Tiger
Hurmat has moved on to Zeeshan, but Tabish drives the city all night. His boss gives him a warning and a new enemy. A recap of Hurmat Episode 12.
Spoilers for Hurmat Episode 12 below.
Hurmat Episode 12, which HUM TV uploaded on Tuesday night, 10 November, is about what a broken engagement does to the two people who broke it. Hurmat (Dananeer Mobeen) has already moved on in her head, while Assistant Commissioner Tabish (Shahveer Jafry) is falling apart in public. It is also the drama’s most-watched stretch: the upload stood at about 6.9 million views on Thursday morning.
What happened
The episode opens with Hurmat’s line that sets the tone: Tabish “is the past”, Zeeshan “is the present and future”. Tabish’s mother comes to Hurmat’s house on her day off to find out why the engagement ended, and leaves insulted. Hurmat’s own mother is even harder on her, saying no one will marry a girl who broke off an engagement with “a renowned personality”. Hurmat’s reply, that this is the 21st century and people fix their mistakes, gets a bitter answer: “For me, this century is a torment.”
Tabish, meanwhile, has become the talk of the checkpoints. Police at the E-9 checkpoint have seen his car pass four times at midnight; the guard at his house says he leaves every night at twelve and comes back at dawn, playing love poetry. His mother confronts him and calls Hurmat “that deprived girl”, then, a scene later, pushes him out for a drive because she cannot bear to watch him sit at home.
Hurmat’s plan to win Zeeshan hits a snag of its own. His father, Sir Hafeez, her boss, sends her home from the office until her MBA finals are over, and Hurmat realises he is “a fan of Tabish”. Her friends tell her to wait for Zeeshan to make the first move. The exam itself becomes comedy, with her friend Keni copying, getting caught and being moved to a corner.
The last scene changes the drama’s direction. Tabish’s senior officer calls him in: personal life is his own business until it gets in the way of the job, and it has. The city has lootings and kidnappings, and a man called Tony Tiger is threatening people on social media and seizing property. “If you have to drive cars at night like a failed lover and listen to love poetry, then resign and become a poet,” he says. Tabish promises he will never give him a reason to complain again, and walks out asking: who is Tony Tiger?
What worked
Kashif Anwar’s script gives both mothers the best lines, and the scenes between Tabish and his mother are the episode’s warmest. Shahveer Jafry plays Tabish’s slump without self-pity. Dananeer Mobeen’s Hurmat is deliberately hard to like here, carefree while everyone around her pays the price, and the writing seems to want viewers to argue about her. The university scenes are lighter filler, but they keep the pace up.
What’s next
Tony Tiger gives Tabish a case to throw himself into, and the drama a thriller thread alongside the romance. With Zeeshan’s father warming to Tabish rather than Hurmat, her plan looks set to get harder before it gets easier.
