She looks like an innocent, Middle Eastern flavored version of Jennifer Lopez: almond eyes, sweeping curls, lit-up smile, curvy and slight. He, a darker, cherub-faced and sleepy-eyed Alec Baldwin.

Faiza Hasan plays another iteration of the manipulative sister-in-law that producers and audiences seem to lap up, as Aapa Shameem. The never-married, eldest daughter Shameem is the queen of her ...

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