Muamma, Saba Qamar’s latest drama is a psychological thriller with all the elements that a Pakistani drama needs.

In Episode 9 and 10, Jahan Ara’s (Saba Qamar) new tenants are right where she wants them. Junaid (Ali Ansari) has expressed his love for Jahan Ara despite his wife, Maira (Anoushay Abbasi) being pregnant and oblivious to his night-time conversations with Jahan Ara.

We also see flashbacks of Jahan Ara’s life. A controlling, viscious, cheating husband who is in jail for murder, a father who literally threw her out and a helpless mother. A greedy brother and a father who, even if he realises that he did his daughter wrong, would never admit it. She’s had a tough life and she took ownership of it in the most twisted of ways.

And that is the beauty of Muamma. Jahan Ara is the villain of the drama, the breaker of marriages because she initiates the ‘firnedship’ between the men and then watches their lives unfold. But we feel bad for her as well and find her well, relatable. 

Relatable, how? She had a bad childhood with an overbearing father, fell in love but was unable to marry the love of her life (Usman Mukhtar) for reasons that we still don’t know and was treated horribly by her husband, who met with women and made her serve them. 

It is surprising that Jahan Ara turned out to be a woman who wants to see if men break from their marriages, sets up situations to make them chase her and then supports the wives when their marriages are in trouble. She seems to have a twisted saviour syndrome, wanting to save women from bad marriages which she is instrumental in breaking.

At the end of episode 10 we see the glass crack after Junaid accidentally throws a ball at it and Jahan Ara’s secret is at risk of being exposed. What will happen if it is, although at this point of the show it likely isnt. But it's important to show that while Jahan Ara now lives in her own world where nothing she does has consequences, like sending Zeeshan to prison and her staff member for spying on her. How she managed to do so in such little time with the police is not explained but it does show the power she now weilds and the contrast between her past and present is striking. We want to know more and more about how she became the twisted convoluted person she is and can't wait for the next episode to find out.