Dhoop Kinare- A refreshing approach to class structure.

Perhaps the biggest contention I had while watching Humsafar had to do with consumerism as linked to class. Class in Humsafar is defined through the use of various materialistic tools such as expensive apparel and sipping of coffee in fancy cafes. The households of the two classes are also used to depict how wealth is important in defining class boundaries. However, Dhoop Kinare is quite the refreshing change to this painfully redundant commentary on class.

Even though it makes sense to say that class in this manner is almost absent in the drama, another tool is used to show what constitutes the upper class. The idea of class is mainly played out through the role of education. The two girls in the drama actively pursue careers from the onset of the drama as opposed to the annoying concept of 'marrying into a wealthy household'. With Zoya working as a doctor and Anji working as an interior designer through proper education, the girls appear as equals even though it is apparent that Anji belongs to a wealthier family. Since, both these girls are in a similar position with respect to their education, their movement within the classes seems to be fluid.

In addition to education, professionalism also surfaces as a tool of replacement to the materialistic boundaries of class. This is most aptly represented in the scene where Zoya is asked to wash her face by Dr. Ahmer, when she is called in due to her life threatening mistake of forgetting a patients injection. Not only does she wash her face, but she herself takes her earrings off in agitation, signifying how the drama serves to vanquish a materialism of sorts. Had this been Khirad adorned in pretty looking attire, Asher would have, probably momentarily forgotten the big mistake she had committed.

Hence, the Drama in some sense aims to rid society of the materialistic approach to class divisions, instead raising more important issues such as education and professionalism as a form of class in themselves.