Nafeesa is a major supporting character in the Indian Police Force, who helps the protagonists a great deal in the final chapters of the season 1 story. Vaidehi Parshurami plays the character in the show, now streaming on Prime Video.
Nafeesa is Haider’s wife who is blissfully unaware of his real identity.
She is curious and does ask him about his parents, and his past, but when he’s visibly upset recalling it, she doesn’t press further.
Haider and his charms
Haider tells her that his parents died in an accident long ago. That’s pretty much all he tells her about his past life, and it’s a white lie.
All she knows about him is that he leads a kind of bohemian life and is a perfume maker by profession.
To her, his frequent work-related trips are just that, trips.
She is mesmerized by him and rightfully so because in this second life that he leads, he’s really just an upstanding, honest, and smart young man.
The truth can’t be further from the man she knows and loves, which is also that way because Haider is very good at hiding it from her.
Introduction with the truth
When Haider, who is India’s most wanted terrorist, flees India after his Goa mission fails.
The police discover his abode in Bihar and show up to a bewildered Nafeesa.
That’s when she learns that her perfume maker husband is actually a terrorist, as was her father, Saeed, who was working in tandem with Haider for a long time.
She suffers through a shock as it all hits her at once. DCP Kabir Malik tells her that she’s married to Zarar who just pretends to be Haider.
She also hears from her mother that she’s in custody in Delhi, being questioned by the police who have killed her father in a shootout.
Before she faints, Nafeesa repeatedly tries to correct Kabir, telling him he must’ve mistook her husband for being someone else.
A house of lies crumbles
At the hospital, she receives Haider’s call and he asks her to reunite with him in Dhaka, manipulating her into believing he’s innocent.
She is to sneak out of the hospital and then cross the border.
However, before that ever comes to pass, the sleeper agents sent by Zarar are taken care of by the police.
Furthermore, Nafeesa happens upon a news program on a TV.
In it, she sees Haider/Zarar’s father, disowning his son while being swarmed by reporters after Zarar’s identity is made public.
Nafeesa recalls how Haider had once told her that his parents died long ago, as the truth was being broadcast on TV right in front of her eyes.
She realizes she married a terrorist whose promises of a future are just lies. She can’t betray her nation for someone like him.
The last confrontation
So she turns to the police and goes on to help them tremendously in tracking down Zarar and ultimately arrest him and bring him back to India.
She calls him before he’s taken away to Delhi, to be jailed.
She confronts him about all his lies and ends his delusions of being a good husband, father to their unborn kid, or human being.
As she severs her connections with him, she shares her fears for her kid who’s going to grow up being the son of a terrorist.
However, in all this, her culpability is none, and Kabir Malik and other Delhi Special Cell officers recognize this.
They acknowledge her integrity and innocence, as well as her bravery, and make sure that their names will be ruled out for being completely unaware of all of Saeed and Zarar’s crimes.
