Ms. Marvel update: After Farhan Akhtar, here's all you need to know about Fawad Khan's role in the series

A glimpse of Fawad Khan was seen in the fourth episode of Ms. Marvel.

Farhan Akhtar's appearance in Ms. Marvel made Desi fans pretty excited for the right reasons. However, there was yet another South Asian heartthrob who is all set to be seen in the Disney+ series, featuring Iman Vellani in the titular role. Yes, we are talking about Fawad Khan, who plays Hasan in Ms. Marvel. But only his character name was out until the fourth episode, and finally viewers got an idea of his identity.

It's been known until now that Kamala Khan's (Vellani) great-grandmother Aisha (Mehwish Hayat) is a clandestine aka Djinn. Plus, she is the source for her great-granddaughter to have the bangle and gain superpowers. Apart from Kamala, her grandmother, Sana (Samina Ahmad), also has a cosmic connection with the bangle.

In the latest episode, we see Kamala and her mother, Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff), touching down in Karachi to be with Sana. The three women rush into the car and drive to Sana's house, a large estate in the city filled with memorabilia from the family's past, trinkets, and Sana's artwork. 

She explains to Kamala that because so much of her family's heritage was destroyed during Partition, she wanted to preserve as much of it as she could, and painting seemed like the ideal way to do so. Sana exhibits a painting of her mother, Aisha, that she created from memory because she can hardly recall what the woman looked like all those years ago.

Not just that, Sana also shows her only childhood photo with her father, and Kamala immediately asks, "Wait. Is that Hasan Nana? " Yes, that photo is of none other than Fawad Khan.

The Pakistani star plays Kamala's great-grandfather and Aisha's husband in Ms. Marvel. Now that we have seen a glimpse, the makers have kind of assured us that in the fifth episode, we will finally see Fawad in a full-fledged role.

Towards the end of the episode, Kamala is sent flying backward when Najma strikes the bangle with a single rapid blow. She arrives at a train station. When she looks around, the location is both familiar and wholly unique to anything she has ever seen. As she waves through the crowd, she notices that many people are saying farewell as they rush to board a nearby waiting train. As she ascends the train on her own to acquire a better perspective of the region, she knows precisely when, where, and where she is: it is 1947, and this is Partition.

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