In Episode 2 of Ms. Marvel on Disney+, Crushed, things got a whole lot more mysterious and at the centre of it all is Kamala’s love interest, Kamran. He appears early on in the episode as the two bump into each other when Kamala is doing her whole Spider-Man equivalent, post-powers walk through school, which was pretty funny.
Apart from it looking as though Kamran is way, way, way too old for Kamala, the two characters hit it off pretty well. However, the episode reveal of his mum, who says she’s been waiting a long time to meet her, puts a question mark over his love interest role.
AdvertisementTo start with, it means the audience, and Kamala for that matter, didn’t know for sure whether or not his affection for her was genuine or a result of his mother’s efforts to meet her. If that wasn’t enough, the links back to Kamala’s great grandmother for Kamran’s mother mean that there’s a lot of history to take into account.
Who plays Kamran?
The actor that plays the role of Kamran in Ms. Marvel is Rish Shah, who is a relative newcomer with no major roles under his belt prior to the Disney+ show. He gets a whole lot of screen time and plot attention in Episode 2 following the meet cute, which leads to him driving Kamala, Bruno and Nakia home from Zoe Zimmer’s party after the police arrive.
AdvertisementAfter that he takes Kamala for a driving lesson and they have a date at a New Jersey diner where they talk Bollywood movies. At this stage it all seems fairly innocuous and you just kind of assume its random love interest stuff for character development.
However, the unexpected ending to Episode 2 makes the character integral to the mysteries that have developed early on for Ms. Marvel. Namely, what are her powers and how do they link to her past with a clear reference to both her great grandmother and Kamran’s mother.
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What we know about Kamran
AdvertisementThe reality is that the show had been pretty light on information on Kamran early on, but by the time Episode 6 arrived we knew pretty much everything. The only thing that he has talked about really at the start was that he’d done a lot of traveling around before he arrived in New Jersey.
The other things we knew were that he has a wealthy uncle that owns a very fancy Porche Taycan and his mum has an overeager interest in his new love interest, Kamala. We found out more about both the uncle and his mother in the rest of Ms. Marvel’s remaining 4 episodes, so here’s how it all pieces together.
When Kamran and his mum turned up at just the right time and place to pick Kamala up it showed that they must have powers. There were also the visions of Kamran’s mum – when Kamala blacked out at the dinner table and when she was trying to save the boy at the mosque – which hinted at a link to her powers.
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His mum says that she’s been waiting a long time to meet Kamala and it clearly wasn’t because of Kamran being her new love interest either. The early days romance had only been going on for a day or so by this stage, so it had to be linked to something else.
That pointed to a link that goes back to her family before they moved from Pakistan and that turned out to be the case in later episodes. It’s all linked to Kamala’s powers, bracelet and great grandmother Aisha.
Both families have power, because they originate from the Noor people, who traveled to earth from another dimension. However, Kamala’s powers are different and it turns out that she has mutated genes compared to the rest of her family.
We initially thought that maybe the powers skip generations, but in the final episode Bruno confirms that it’s a mutation thanks to his huge CalTec brain and advanced diagnostics skills. However, it also appears that when Kamran’s mother died trying to pass through to her dimension, she unlocked new powers for her son.
For Kamala, it’s the bracelet that was the key to awakening her powers, but Kamran doesn’t need that. His powers seem a lot more uncontrolled than Kamala’s, but then he hadn’t had time to practice with them before the climax of Episode 6.
As ever, we’ll update things here as soon as we know the truth. You can also check out our movie news section to keep tabs on the latest upcoming films, or visit the Marvel website at www.marvel.com to see more on the Disney+ series.
