Psychologically, this suggests a man who cannot handle an equal. He needs to be the savior. When a partner (like the journalist Saba) is wholly self-sufficient and doesn’t need saving, Hasham becomes distant and eventually sabotages the relationship.

That is why millions of viewers keep tuning in. Not just to see who Hasham Daraz will kiss next, but to see if he will finally learn that the hardest surgery of all is the one he performs on his own closed heart.

| Season | Love Interest | Status | Key Theme | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Season 2 | Intern Zara Ahmed | Ended (Long Distance) | Forbidden Ambition | | Season 4 | Dr. Fatima Khan | Ended (Betrayal) | Unrequited & Revenge | | Season 5 | Ayesha Mir | Ongoing (Committed) | Mature Healing | | Season 6 | Saba (The Journalist) | Ended (Self-Sabotage) | Fame vs. Privacy | A controversial take among critics is that Doctor Hasham Daraz doesn’t love people ; he loves the idea of fixing them. As a surgeon, his job is to find a problem and solve it. In his romantic storylines, he consistently chooses partners who are "broken" in some way—the traumatized intern, the struggling single mother, the betrayed wife.

He is not a romantic hero in the classical sense. He doesn’t climb towers or fight dragons. He fights sepsis, malpractice suits, and his own emotional constipation. When he holds a lover’s hand, it is often after delivering bad news to a patient’s family. The romance is interstitial—it happens in the cracks of a very busy life.