As the final episode of the drama serial Parizaad was aired in theaters, fans are letting it all soak in. Meanwhile, the cast didn’t make it easier with their press conference after the episode was screened.
From Ushna Shah opening up about the love, she received for playing Naheed. Despite being a member of the biz for ages. She even talked about how fans came up to her, and now recognize her as ‘the girl from Parizaad’, not actress Ushna Shah.
On the other hand, Saboor Aly talked about always wanting to work with Stop Watch famed Ahmed Ali Akbar. Then she finally got to do so as ‘Bubbly’.
“Mujhay koi drama bhi milta, mein kehti mujhay Ahmed kay saath cast kar dein, (Whenever I’d be offered a drama, I would ask them to cast Ahmed with me.)”
She also opened up about her wish of wanting to work with Shehzad Kashmiri. Going on to thank the director and writer Hashim Nadeem for the project.
Ahmed Ali Akbar voiced how he too was apprehensive about playing Parizaad due to the character’s appearance, probably because of the blackface. The issue caused quite a stir on social media as creators and artist alike was slammed for casting a light-skinned actor with blackface make-up for the role of a dark-skinned man. When they should have just cast a dark-skinned actor.
Then Zahid an assistant director and Salman his manager convinced him to at least read the script first.
“So I read the script and I cried for the first time after reading something. Then I connected with the character to the extent that the way his (Parizaad’s) looks not only became secondary, but tertiary. I connected so much with the human inside, and related so much, I knew I had to do this.”
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