Before Nikkah

6/14/2025

Both are getting a little hassle from their families to tie the knot so “Is” (Aakash Shukal) is getting the train to meet “Hana” (Sally Ann) at London’s Euston station for a day of inter-personal orientation. They don’t exactly get off to a flying start: both are nervous and quite possibly polar opposites as their day of tropes and traps unfolds before us. It seems written as if to exacerbate just about everything that could unite and divide people, using sloppy dialogue from the characters to allow one to score a point, or two, or three. She comes across as a bit arrogant and superior, he comes across as a bit of a chauvinist buffoon. Are either really like this, though? Well sadly some loose power cables mean his trains back are cancelled so we have to spend a great deal longer with thes