Khafa Episode 30: Mohtashim goes missing on Tazeen's birthday
Mohtashim vanishes on the highway the night he was to inherit the family shares, and Rayan tells his mother he is not coming back. Full recap.
Spoilers for Khafa Episode 30 below.
Khafa Episode 30 aired on Har Pal Geo on Thursday, 12 November, and it turned the drama into a thriller. Mohtashim disappears on the highway on the very night he was due to receive his inheritance, and the episode ends with Rayan telling his mother, Shehla, not to worry: “He’s not coming back.”
Khafa Episode 30 recap
The day starts sweetly. Mohtashim surprises Tazeen with a birthday celebration, her first since her father died, and she tells him he has given her a reason to live. Then he drops the news that he has urgent work in Lahore and must leave.
At home, Raza reveals why that evening matters. He has called his legal adviser to hand over everything Mohtashim’s mother and grandfather left him. Shehla’s first question gives her away: what will be left for Rayan? Raza says Rayan gets half of what Raza owns, but the majority of the shares go to Mohtashim.
Mohtashim leaves straight after the meeting. On the phone to Tazeen he says he knows a shorter route and will take an exit off the highway. After that, his phone is switched off.
By 1 AM the house is in panic. Shehla says he always vanished for whole nights before, and is told that Mohtashim is responsible, unlike her son Rayan. Raza learns only that Mohtashim’s car passed a checkpoint outside the city. Tazeen goes out to search the roads herself.
The last scene is the chilling one. Shehla, holding the share papers, wishes the night would never end so the owner of the shares never returns. Rayan says he won’t. She asks if he has done something; he tells her to trust him and that her son is “all grown up now”. Earlier, an unnamed man is shown paying half up front for “the job”, with the rest promised when it is done.
The other half: Faraz, Areesha and Khurram
Khurram is leaving for a job in Dubai and leaving his mother, Afsha, behind. His sister calls him selfish; Afsha, in tears, says Tazeen’s curse has come back to haunt her for the way she treated her.
Faraz finally tells his mother he never got Tazeen out of his heart. Areesha already knows, and their fight ends with her calling him a failure and Faraz raising his hand.
Our take
Khafa has been slow for long stretches, but this episode moves. The cross-cutting between Tazeen’s search and Shehla counting shares is effective, and Tazeen’s fear is played without overdoing it. The Faraz and Areesha track is harder to watch, and the drama should be careful that a husband raising his hand is shown as wrong, not as drama.
What next
The big question is whether the man paid for “the job” is linked to Rayan, and whether Mohtashim is alive. Khafa airs on Har Pal Geo.
