1. Rabia: A very beautiful girl, aged, 18, very smart and sharp, but born in a poor family. Her father is unable to bring a good life match for her. She is very ambitious and dreamy and wants to lead a prosperous and happy married life of her own choice. She has a rebellious instinct and has guts and strength to raise her voice if it goes against her will and desire. She is quite daring and knows well how to realize her goal. And her rebellion in her first marriage luckily proves successful as she finally marries second time to an engineer who is working in the Gulf.
2. Abdul Khabeer, aged 26, Rabia’s first husband, a cleric by profession. He is very humble, submissive, week in his resolve and grit power. He marries Rabia with all his ambitions of his …show more content…
Samar: Rabia’s elder brother, aged, 30 years, a vagabond and non-serious in life. He has already a wife, Shabana at his home, but doesn’t care about her at all. He goes to different cities to earn a living. He is a Madrasa drop-out. He lures a Hindu girl, Lata in Delhi while working in a tailoring shop. Finally, on the insistence of Lata, he elopes with her in his village. There, he marries her by converting her to Islam. But Lata’s father get to him with the help of Delhi Police and is sent to jail for his crime of luring an underage girl.
7. Lata: a beautiful girl of a rich farmer from Haryana. Her parents live in Delhi, but her other family members live in a village in Haryana. Her father decides to marry her with a boy of their choice and caste. He is a property dealer and of bad conduct and behavior. Lata doesn’t like him and wants to run away to escape from bonding with him in marriage. Finally, Lata, is brought back from Samar’s village and put under hard surveillance. Her parents force her to marry the same boy whom she despises a lot. She resists, but her resistance ends in her killing by his brother. He shoots her in a fit of rage one