Exclusive Chat with Azaan Sami Khan | Buzz | Episode 21 | 8 Nov 2025 | ARY Digital
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HOST: Hassan Choudary
GUEST: Azaan Sami Khan
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Insightful moments, interesting stories, and a glimpse into what awaits in the new season! 🌴
HOST: Hassan Choudary
GUEST: Azaan Sami Khan
Watch more
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Buzz — The Show That Talks!
A brand-new celebrity talk show with a twist — Buzz is where real conversations happen! Join Hassan Choudary as he sits down with your favorite stars for engaging, unfiltered, and fun-filled discussions.
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00:08My name is Hassan Chaudhary and this is Buz
00:12Buz's one of the other episode with you.
00:16A.R.Y.K. drama is finished, some drama is going to start.
00:21Buz will bring you all the updates, all your favorite actors and all your favorite actors.
00:29Buz's one of the other episode.
00:31Today we have a very important topic.
00:34Because today we have a very important topic.
00:36The drama is finished.
00:37I believe that you will have a lot of questions.
00:41I have a question.
00:43Today we will answer questions.
00:46But before we have a conversation with you.
00:49This week the A.R.Y.K. drama is how can we talk about it?
00:53We will talk about it.
00:55Finally we will talk about it.
00:57We will talk about it.
00:57The A.R.Y.K. drama is over again.
01:00The A.R.Y.K. drama is trying to make it more jealous.
01:26I will talk about it.
01:29I will talk about it.
01:29That's why you are saying yes.
01:31What is your eyes when I want to see it in your eyes?
01:39What do you think about it in the end of the drama?
01:42The A.R.Y.K. drama is trying to make it more than it.
01:45The A.R.Y.K. drama is trying to make it more than it.
01:59This can also be possible.
02:01The A.R.Y.K. drama is going to make it more than it.
02:04The A.R.Y.K. drama is going to make it more than it.
02:08The A.R.Y.K. drama is going to make it more than it.
02:08If you think this is possible, it will be possible.
02:10I will tell you today's episode of the comment section.
02:14I will tell you that every week.
02:17Every week.
02:17Every week.
02:18Every week.
02:18Every week.
02:19People make a house.
02:32You have to complain in court?
02:54He is so weak and I don't know how bad he is in this person.
02:59God is good, God is good, God is good.
03:03Your love and your love and your love.
03:08It's a story of houses, it's a story of marriage.
03:10It's very relatable, people love it.
03:13And of course, backed by some very very strong performances.
03:17Top of the list, Numan Ijaas.
03:20Every time my heart wants to make it to them, I want to make it to them.
03:23They have made a great effort to make it to them.
03:26But with them, all the other actors, Hiramani, Afan, Harim, they are all doing such a fantastic job.
03:34And again, I want to give a shout-out to Aysan Talish as well.
03:37Sarah Sadehenshah, whose story is very important and very interesting way this story is unraveled.
03:44I want to say that these stories are our dreams.
03:47These stories are our dreams.
03:49We don't see them so much on television.
03:51And when we see them, the treatment and execution, I feel like it.
03:55It's a lot of OTT territory, over-exaggerated, over-the-top.
04:05And I think that is one reason why all of you are also really enjoying it.
04:09What would you like to ask me?
04:11What would you like to ask me?
04:12What would you like to ask me about which cast members of this group?
04:15This is a comment section, I don't want to say.
04:20I don't have a comment section.
04:21I don't have a comment section, I don't have a comment section.
04:39It's a very important part of the cast.
04:41I'm not going to end it.
04:43And now I'm going to do a meeting with you today's guest.
04:46But I'm going to replace it this week.
04:50Today you will see the second episode of the drama.
04:53My life is you.
04:55It's a very anticipated drama.
04:58Hello.
04:59My introduction is not going to happen.
05:00My name is a workman.
05:01You don't know me.
05:03I don't even know.
05:05You're not a fool.
05:07Who are you?
05:07I've told you.
05:08My name is a workman.
05:09Your car was a mis-understanding.
05:11You're big.
05:12I'm going to ask you a little bit.
05:13Give it to me.
05:14I won't forgive you.
05:15I'll give you a case to you.
05:17I'm looking at him.
05:19I'm going to laugh at him.
05:21Please forgive me.
05:25I'm not going to look at you.
05:27But I won't let anyone from me.
05:33My life is my life is my life.
05:40Bilal Abbas Khan and Haniyah Amir are the first time on the screen.
05:44And beyond that, there are a lot of people in this drama.
05:48Bilal Abbas Khan, which we have seen in the teasers, has an intrigue built on their character.
05:54Bilal and Haniyah's chemistry.
05:56Many fans are excited.
05:58They will see the first time on the screen.
06:00I have a lot of excitement.
06:02I can't wait to watch it.
06:04Hopefully, in the next week, I will share my point of view with you.
06:08Meanwhile, those who have seen those stories, you can tell us in the comments section.
06:12What is your first impression?
06:14And most importantly, my life is your cast.
06:18You want to meet with whom?
06:20Bilal and Haniyah, of course, I know.
06:22But beyond that, what actors and characters you want to meet with you,
06:28can tell us in the comments section.
06:30But you will be able to make your experience with your favorite artists.
06:36My friends, it's time to meet you today.
06:39I don't know what to say.
06:40I don't know that I am a breakthrough performance.
06:43This is a breakthrough star.
06:45This drama is a big drama.
06:46There are many questions that I asked for.
06:49I was waiting for this interview.
06:51And finally, my house is finally coming.
06:52Just be here.
06:53I am a Azan Samih Khan.
06:56Wow! You should be a drum roll. You should be a girl.
06:59I am happy for this.
07:01Peace be upon you.
07:03How are you?
07:04So good to have you on my show, Azan.
07:06Thank you so much.
07:07So good to have you on my show. Please have a seat.
07:09How did you allow this to happen?
07:11What do you mean? I am the one who called you.
07:13Guys, someone from my childhood,
07:16when I was working, when I opened my eyes,
07:19I was thinking that Hasan will be going to interview me.
07:21And he refused. And when I came to the point,
07:25that the PR people said that I should do an interview,
07:28I said that I will be going to be doing Hasan one day.
07:30And I was disappointed again and again.
07:32Don't do this. You thought that I had to admit that I am Hasan.
07:34I am coming to that. And then I would be like,
07:36why? What's the difference in me?
07:38They think that I am not a good actor.
07:40I am not a good musician.
07:42Then I knew that the game is something else.
07:45What game is?
07:46It is a big issue.
07:48Who is it?
07:49That I am not a girl.
07:49I am not a girl.
07:50So then I was like, okay.
07:52Okay, let's go.
07:53No problem.
07:54Next time.
07:55You know.
07:55You are so passionate.
07:57Please.
07:58You give the entire interview.
07:59Please.
07:59You have never given this opportunity to give you the opportunity
08:02to give you the opportunity to interview you.
08:04In the past, I am the one who called you.
08:06That is true.
08:07Azaan, please come to my show.
08:08I am very grateful.
08:09Because Azaan has convinced me that you have not dates.
08:12That is not true.
08:13No problem.
08:15Azaan, please give us a date.
08:19I am in the past.
08:20It was my birthday.
08:21It was my birthday.
08:22It was my birthday.
08:23Happy birthday to Zeba Ji first of all.
08:25Thank you so much.
08:25Such an icon, such a legend.
08:27There are so many prayers for him.
08:29And thank you for coming to my show.
08:31Sir, congratulations firstly.
08:34Congratulations to you.
08:35Big success.
08:36Thank you so much.
08:37In the drama, many people have liked it.
08:40Some people have also made a better decision.
08:42But the bottom line is that Azaan Sami Khan has emerged as the breakthrough performer of
08:49I am not a man to.
08:49Thank you so much.
08:50This feeling is synced in.
08:51I am very grateful.
08:52I think honestly, I have like these, I don't know, pinch me moments.
08:56When I watch these posters, I am just like, Allah's God.
09:01I can't take any credit for it.
09:04Because I think every actor or artist dreams of a few phone calls.
09:09At least in our industry.
09:10We all dream of certain phone calls.
09:12The top of the list will be Big Sah.
09:15One or two other people.
09:16And then the honour to be opposite Ahumai Bhai.
09:20To work with Asayma Ji.
09:22Babar Ali sahab be your father.
09:23Now twice in a row.
09:24So that's a big honour for me.
09:27Sajal.
09:29Kya Khetne Sabhaappa.
09:31Asif sahab.
09:32Everybody, you know.
09:33Then all the younger guys as well.
09:35You know.
09:35The fun was, I was able to make new friends on the set.
09:39Whether it's Nameer or Durab or all of them.
09:42So.
09:43Sinking in it would be, you know.
09:45I am just very grateful.
09:47I have so much love with this work.
09:50I mean, when I am in the studio.
09:51I was like.
09:52I was like.
09:53This road I have cut from my childhood.
09:56Or, after my mother.
09:58You know.
09:59This is.
09:59It feels so at home to me.
10:01These corridors and things.
10:03So to be here.
10:04As part of a project.
10:06Is very, very special.
10:07Asif.
10:08Asif.
10:09Asif.
10:10Asif.
10:11Asif.
10:12Asif.
10:13Asif.
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10:34Asif.
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10:35Asif.
10:36Asif.
10:36Asif.
10:38Asif.
10:46Asif.
10:51be a bit freer, because maybe people think that Azaan comes from a certain household, but Azaan also knows that
10:58he comes from a certain household.
11:01So, it's not that I am oblivious that I have no idea that I have a legacy behind you.
11:06Repetism word is for you. Absolutely, absolutely. So I am saying that I don't know about it.
11:11I have no idea and because I have no idea, I take it seriously. So the pressure, when you are
11:16in an environment that feels very safe,
11:18you are able to put it aside and say that those people will see me better. I am just focusing
11:24on my work.
11:25As Farhad, as a negative character, the way that you have excelled,
11:29there is a streak in a certain way that one person is a better way as opposed to another kind
11:37of character.
11:38Because maybe the emotion is different, the emotion is more expressed.
11:42You should think that if it was negative, then that's why it came from another way.
11:46How did it come from another way?
11:47Okay, I never thought of him as negative.
11:51Okay.
11:51And that was, I think, my first brief from Big Sub was that he is not a villain.
11:55You have not thought that he is a villain.
11:57So, it was very difficult.
11:58Because in the first meeting, when I called him, he was a villain character.
12:00I remember all the villains from my life.
12:02You know, all of them from Sholei and everything.
12:06That he is a villain, he makes his face, he makes his hand gestures, etc.
12:10And he said, don't do anything, don't do anything.
12:12Don't do anything, don't do anything.
12:14Don't do anything.
12:14Then I thought, okay.
12:15And then he was right in the sense that,
12:17You don't think anyone's villain.
12:20Especially Farhad.
12:21He's in his mind that he is right.
12:23That's right.
12:24If you grow up with the wrong morals,
12:26then you're not a villain.
12:28If you think everything is fair in love and war.
12:31And literally if everything is fair,
12:33then you are not a villain in your mind.
12:35So, for me, he wasn't a villain.
12:37I never thought of him as a villain.
12:38I still continue to realize that he,
12:40Azaan probably thinks he's a villain.
12:43Farhad doesn't think he's a villain.
12:44Farhad, obviously.
12:45So, when I was in my head,
12:46I'm not trying to become pseudo,
12:48but when I was in my method, you know,
12:52he was a lover.
12:53Beg Saab had a discussion about this scene.
12:57He's the most chilled out guy.
12:59Like, unbelievably chilled out.
13:01In the sense that,
13:03You know,
13:03I'm prepared for this scene, sir.
13:05What do I do in this scene?
13:07Go and stand there.
13:09Then I'll say it.
13:10Yes, I'll say it.
13:12I'll say it.
13:12I'll say it.
13:13Let's see it from this type.
13:15Yes, cut, done.
13:18What do you mean?
13:19Yes, it's done.
13:20The most important scene.
13:22Like, my first scene of the drama
13:23was when I go to Manto's house to shoot him.
13:26Okay.
13:27That is the first scene I shot.
13:29Of the whole play.
13:32I can't explain.
13:33I'll take the shot from the car.
13:35And then Manto comes to the shot.
13:36In this case,
13:37people didn't realize that
13:38he had to kill the evidence
13:39but he left the witnesses there.
13:41Yes, left there.
13:42That was the first day.
13:44Before I left the car,
13:46I thought I'd be embarrassed.
13:47Okay.
13:48Was there so much anxiety?
13:49Of course.
13:50It was the first day.
13:51I think it was December 14th or 15th.
13:54It was December.
13:56And it's very cold in Bahriya town.
13:58We were shooting.
14:00And in front of you,
14:02Sanam Ji,
14:03Beg Saab,
14:04Suleiman Razak,
14:05the whole team.
14:07And I have to do all of this stuff.
14:10My first day.
14:10Come out and shoot Umayu Saab.
14:11Yes.
14:12I thought I would faint.
14:14And I remember,
14:14I even teased Beg Saab about this.
14:15Because on that day,
14:16before the shot,
14:17I thought,
14:17I'll get water.
14:18I don't need anything.
14:20It's good.
14:21I hope I can make it there.
14:23I was very nervous.
14:24And I think that's a good thing.
14:26Some people have said that
14:28Farhad and Mehmal is a good chemistry.
14:31You have seen the comments.
14:33What is your feedback and reaction?
14:37I think,
14:40maybe
14:41Sajal and I have worked together before.
14:42Yeah.
14:43So, there is that memory from that project.
14:45Secondly,
14:46I think
14:48because Mehmal's character is also a very fiery character.
14:50And Farhad's character is also fiery.
14:52So, when he comes to the side,
14:54he's a natural.
14:55We have a lot less.
14:56If you look at this drama,
14:58I think we have 4 scenes.
15:01That's it.
15:01But they were all very heightened scenes.
15:04Also,
15:04whoever has said that
15:05Farhad has liked it,
15:08I always say that
15:08he was like that.
15:10That's why he has liked it.
15:11That's why
15:12the credit has to go to the material
15:14as well as the direction.
15:16That
15:16if he wasn't written as this character
15:18who comes and
15:19you know
15:20handi
15:20then
15:22it may not have been.
15:23I don't mind
15:25that the journey
15:25is
15:26and that the story
15:27has come up with
15:29by taking your work.
15:31You
15:31were satisfied
15:32and satisfied
15:33that
15:33this arc
15:34has become
15:35like this.
15:35You thought
15:36that
15:36there was room for improvement.
15:38In any way.
15:40I think
15:41that the moral justice
15:42was very good.
15:45That
15:45that
15:45Abba killed him.
15:47I expect
15:48that
15:49he killed him.
15:50He killed him.
15:54He killed him.
15:58He killed him.
16:00He killed him.
16:01He killed him.
16:15He killed him.
16:16He killed him.
16:18He killed him.
16:18Were you surprised
16:19when you first read
16:20the ending in the script?
16:21When I started shooting
16:22I didn't write the ending.
16:23Okay.
16:24I didn't know
16:25that.
16:26I was shocked
16:27to play the character
16:27who died in the end.
16:30He killed him.
16:32He killed him.
16:33He killed him.
16:33He killed him.
16:33and I was shocked
16:34at any script meeting.
16:36I said,
16:37I'm not.
16:37I'm not.
16:38Why will I die?
16:38When I thought
16:39this was the end.
16:41I told him
16:43that he died.
16:44He killed him.
16:46He killed him.
16:47He killed him.
16:47When Farhad died
16:48in the last episode
16:49how did you
16:50get feedback from fans?
16:52He said,
16:53I'll tell you
16:54interestingly
16:55I was with my kids.
16:56He started to make
16:57reels.
16:59He was very upset.
17:00I didn't think.
17:01He saw shots
17:03that he fell
17:04so they started crying.
17:06No, Baba
17:06you can't do things
17:07in which you die.
17:08I'm like,
17:09I'm not.
17:10They were very upset.
17:11The first reaction
17:12was my own.
17:13And I told him
17:14that as anybody
17:14I'm seeing reels
17:15and sharing their thoughts
17:16and all of that.
17:17And they were upset.
17:18So that was the first reaction.
17:20It's a big, interesting
17:21moment for you
17:22that you were just
17:23reading it.
17:24I don't think that
17:25you were just talking about.
17:27And the story
17:27and the other things
17:29had been moving.
17:30So how are you feeling?
17:31Were you happy
17:32about your
17:33all the praise
17:34that you were getting
17:34and also kind of like
17:36okay, all the story
17:38that I was also talking about
17:39was going to be reading it.
17:40Look
17:40Look, I am going to sound very diplomatic here but I am not being diplomatic, it's a team game, so
17:48I can't be just happy for myself.
17:50All of the people involved in the project, they are very close to my heart and fortunately, when I have
17:56worked with them, they are close to my heart.
17:58So, if something comes to them, I feel like I can be happy. Of course, I am grateful that my
18:03work is good or my character likes it.
18:05But if the ship is getting damaged, I will not jump and say, it's okay, I am grateful. But I
18:14am a team player.
18:14Khawattino's Raat, Azaan is now with us. After a very short break, you will meet again.
18:20Welcome back Khawattino's Raat, Azaan is now with us.
18:23Let me tell you, we have also talked about it and other people talk about it.
18:29Azaan Sami Khan is very privileged and he is.
18:33So, what are the challenges in the life of Azaan Sami Khan's life as far as work is concerned?
18:38What is it? I want to know, I want to know, I want to know, I want to know a
18:40little bit about Azaan Sami Khan.
18:43As an actor, does Azaan Sami Khan struggle at all to find work, to find opportunities, to find scripts?
18:50Because the popular perception is that all the scripts are presented on a sony's face.
19:00Azaan will tell you that these are 10 scripts, which one will choose?
19:02I will do this.
19:03Then Azaan says, I will do this.
19:06What is this? What is this? What is this scene?
19:08I have never gotten a script as a first choice.
19:11Okay, I have given scripts that I have maybe conceptualized and that too they wanted someone else to play.
19:16Really?
19:16I will never victimize myself because the advantages, Alhamdulillah, someone in my position, born in certain households has,
19:25that I can never victimize him.
19:29I will be the most grateful for the world if I can do this.
19:32But my struggles are different.
19:35Or will it be?
19:36I am very struggling with my physicality.
19:40It's okay that it's less or less, but anybody who has gone through it realizes what it is.
19:45The flip side of it is that if I felt the pressure, the makers felt 10 times more pressure.
19:55Because they feel like their money.
19:57I have also heard that Azaan makes money and makes money.
20:00I have also heard that.
20:01I don't want to make this one.
20:03You are a very big director.
20:05Okay, the point is that I was never a first choice for most of my projects.
20:13I was maybe the fourth choice or fifth choice and because it's a business,
20:17if someone's dates weren't aligned, someone had a new project,
20:20so they had to have to go through the shoot at this time.
20:22So, they have to take Azaan.
20:25Now, I don't mind saying that because I think it's worth it.
20:28It's worth it. But I think maybe now I've started getting the first one, two, three months.
20:35Were you the first choice for Farhad?
20:37No.
20:38Farhad, you weren't the first choice?
20:39No.
20:39No.
20:40Saying that for a fact?
20:41For a fact.
20:42I promise.
20:43You can call up our friend and ask him.
20:46I wasn't, I know the people who were the first choice.
20:49But that's what I'm saying.
20:50It's…
20:50What number choice were you for Farhad?
20:52I think probably fourth or fifth.
20:53Fourth or fifth?
20:54Fourth or fifth.
20:55Because I, for a fact, know two people.
20:59They have to admit it.
21:01Yeah.
21:01Possibly.
21:04Do you think it bothers me?
21:05No.
21:06No.
21:07Offensive.
21:08No.
21:08No.
21:10Who says that, he has 12 scripts that Azaan Sami Khan offer.
21:14That's why he chooses his best.
21:17That, boy, Sajjal and Yumna cast together because Azaan Sami Khan came to get a drama.
21:23Azaan to break.
21:25At that time I think I was the fourth choice.
21:28Third or fourth choice.
21:29In that drama you were the fourth choice?
21:30Fourth choice.
21:32It wasn't destined for you?
21:34It wasn't conceptualized for you?
21:35It was someone else's concept, who was an actor to play in it.
21:39So that's what I'm saying. It's eventually a business.
21:42And you said your own concept, what you pitched in there,
21:45in that way, they said it would be someone else.
21:46Someone else would do it.
21:48Not once, quite a few times.
21:51You don't like music as a composer, as a musician.
21:56I think that you've really nailed it.
21:59You've got a very, very good reputation as a musician.
22:01Thank you, sir.
22:02In that way, it's also.
22:03In that way, I don't like it.
22:04Sir, my first film that came out was Parvaz.
22:10In Parvaz, initially, I was signed for one song.
22:13There were six songs in the film, I was signed for one song.
22:16I was sure that I had to keep tabs on the status of the rest of the songs.
22:20If the others are making, they will not make it.
22:22So I always make it two songs.
22:24Then I send one one, it was approved.
22:25I said, by the way, if it's not ready, I'll listen to it.
22:28And it was one and five songs.
22:30It wasn't that I said, sign him on for five songs.
22:34For the film.
22:35No.
22:36Why is this perception then?
22:38I don't know.
22:39What do I do?
22:39No, I want to know, why is this perception?
22:42It is, I don't know.
22:43Which is why I don't fight it.
22:45I don't fight it.
22:46Even now, maybe you're not believing me.
22:48But it's…
22:49No, I believe you.
22:50The thing is, I believe you.
22:52No, but I don't understand why there's such a perception.
22:55That there's a lot of heavy duty.
22:58Like you said, you put money on your own.
23:01I've heard it myself.
23:03See, I cannot complain.
23:04It's fine.
23:04I mean, it's a good reputation to have if that's what people are thinking.
23:08But it's not…
23:09Why did you produce a film?
23:10My grandma produced it.
23:11I was back to college and they said, go and do something.
23:15I think I saw the other day, Dhanesh Nawaz, Dhanesh Nawaz had an interview that every actor should be ADD.
23:20ADD should be ADD.
23:21I have done it, I have done it.
23:22So, because of that, I think he's absolutely right.
23:25It is…
23:27It's a very important thing.
23:29It helps me every day.
23:31You've been ADD.
23:32Your mother has produced a film.
23:35So, let's go.
23:36Again, there's an experience in all these things.
23:38And many of our actors are producing drama.
23:42You didn't think that I would produce it.
23:44I'd love to at some point.
23:46What's the reason?
23:47It's easy.
23:48If you'll only produce it, you'll only cast it.
23:52Then, probably, someone will say something.
23:55The director will say,
23:57I mean, I don't know.
23:58No, the thing is that I'd love to at some point.
24:02I think I have a long way.
24:04I also have to learn a lot as an actor.
24:06I also have to do a job.
24:07So, I think that there are some things in the music.
24:11When you're giving different expressions on the screen,
24:15what do you think about this kind of work?
24:18What do you want to do in the audience?
24:19I'm a very, I'm going to say something which is a very uncool thing.
24:23I don't know if people have different ambitions.
24:26I'm a very commercial guy.
24:28I like characters which resonate with a larger audience and get excited.
24:32So, I'm not just playing this.
24:35I feel like we haven't found our Mr. Bean yet.
24:43Okay.
24:44So, if you think about it, we haven't.
24:45Yeah, in that sense, you know,
24:49I want to see children.
24:51I'm a big fan of Dwayne Johnson.
24:53Now, he's like, kids love him.
24:55So, for me, it's all those kind of things.
24:56It's like,
24:57how to reach that larger audience?
24:59How to deeply connect with them?
25:00Because right now, I feel that some guys are doing it
25:02in a great way.
25:04But I just think that it's an open place.
25:06I mean, I mean, I'm not,
25:09I'm not as an actor as an actor.
25:10I mean, artistically, like, you know.
25:13But like you're saying yourself,
25:16you're never the first choice.
25:17You're probably the fourth or fifth choice.
25:19So, the first choice that are the actors,
25:22they often say that in our industry,
25:25there's such stories, such stories,
25:28that we're excited for a lot.
25:30So, if you come to the fourth or fifth,
25:34the ladder of that step,
25:36you'll feel more restricted and restrained.
25:39That was still a certain point.
25:41As I said, you said,
25:42what was the transition?
25:43The transition was mainly that
25:45I knew what was going to be thinking.
25:48Because my relationships
25:50built by the director,
25:51as a composer,
25:52was built quite a long time ago.
25:54So, it's not like I didn't know
25:55what's happening in the pipeline,
25:56what are the concepts.
25:58Suddenly, now,
25:59alhamdulillah,
26:01they felt
26:02some of the things they felt
26:03that we had to do with our own.
26:05The day we think he is
26:07viable, ready to do it or
26:08viable to do it or whatever.
26:10Ready for a profitable venture.
26:12Exactly.
26:13So, that discussions
26:14are starting to happen.
26:16So, that may be laterally.
26:18As an actor, do you feel restricted with the kind of characters that are generally written in our industry?
26:25There are three or four shades of hero in our drama.
26:28There are many off-beat projects in a year or two years.
26:33But other than that, the kind of characters in our drama, heroes, men, first lead, second lead, villain, they are
26:40perhaps similar.
26:42I don't look at it in a bad way.
26:43In the sense that I do think that this is a drama industry particularly.
26:46It is a machine.
26:49You have to go to someone's house every night at 8am.
26:52And they have to go to the family and watch the drama from their work.
26:56It could be me, it could be you, it could be anybody.
26:58It is very replaceable.
26:59Like, you know, frankly speaking, it is a very replaceable medium for the actors.
27:03If you are not, if you are being difficult, somebody will take your place the next day.
27:07That's it.
27:07And inshallah, they will do a good job and the projects are not made because the machine has to continue
27:12or the show must go on.
27:13Obviously, those things are also like to do.
27:16I do think that bankability for any actor allows risk to be a little safer.
27:22So, I can name a few projects.
27:24If the actor doesn't work in them, then the project doesn't work, which was off-beat.
27:29Their bankability allowed risk-taking and then that project worked.
27:33So, you know, I was also saying that for me, being successful is important and that is why you can
27:40do more work.
27:41And then that is why it is more viable.
27:43Like, I don't think another actor could bankroll Manto, I am not Manto, other than I am.
27:48Who does approve this subject?
27:52That's why he did it.
27:54No, no, no.
27:55And I remember when he was shooting and we all knew that there is a risk attached to it.
27:59But his, mashallah, position allowed him to take that risk at that level.
28:04And we see many examples of this, if we look outside of Pakistan.
28:07So, I think restriction is because actors can take that risk.
28:16I think it's a bit of a younger, newer actor who is not bankable,
28:20they will put it in a safer mould.
28:22So, you know, this is the formula.
28:24So, you will see it.
28:25How are you watching your future and how are you watching your future?
28:29I don't know what I'm going to eat at night.
28:31But...
28:32You are working on a lot of scripts, you are working on a lot of scripts.
28:38So, you are working on a lot of things, you are working on a lot of things.
28:41I am not doing it like that, but there are some people who are going to be...
28:46Some people are going to be removed, some people are going to be different.
28:52I will tell you that when you are coming, you will review a lot of things.
28:56I will tell you that.
28:58You will not be bored.
29:00There will be lots of hosts, inshallah positive.
29:03I will tell you that.
29:04I am listening to a film film.
29:08Which episode is your show?
29:09Huh?
29:10Which episode is your show?
29:11Which episode is your show?
29:12Which episode is your number?
29:13How many?
29:14I think 21st.
29:16So, what? What's up?
29:20I will tell you about the news.
29:22You will get the first deal.
29:24This is the deal.
29:24You will break it.
29:25You will come, right?
29:27You will come.
29:28Who will tell you?
29:29You and your co-star will come.
29:32Let me tell you about the co-star.
29:33I will tell you about the co-star.
29:34This will be interesting.
29:35Let me reveal it.
29:36Let me tell you about the challenge.
29:38I will tell you about the challenge.
29:38That's it.
29:40But no.
29:41I am curious.
29:43How are you looking at the future of industry?
29:45How are you looking at the future of drama?
29:46How are you looking at the future of films?
29:48Again, I am asking this because again, you are somebody who understands the business.
29:54I think it is very big.
29:55Future, I am generally a very optimistic person.
29:59I think the future is very bright.
30:01I think Pakistan is on the verge of a breakthrough globally.
30:07Okay.
30:07Yeah.
30:08Because when we go out to the award shows, we interact with the foreign diaspora.
30:12You have also said recently, my first interaction in an award show abroad was a very rude awakening.
30:18I was like, why are you looking at it?
30:22That moment comes to me.
30:24I mean, we know the way we shoot it.
30:27We know the way we shoot it.
30:28We know the way we shoot it.
30:31You go and you are like, bro, this is a very serious work.
30:34So, I think…
30:35It seems like it is a few people who watch it, but a lot of people watch it.
30:38A lot of people watch it.
30:39You know, I think the deception is that we see a number on a screen.
30:42Ten million.
30:43How many will it be?
30:44Ten million people have.
30:46When you put a personality on a lot of people,
30:49a lot of people have ten million views.
30:51Or that headcount is a lot of headcount.
30:53A lot of headcount is a lot of headcount.
30:53Ten million is a lot of headcount.
31:04A billion views.
31:05From a technical standpoint, technicians are becoming very good.
31:09Actors, mashallah, and artists are also very good.
31:12Directors, great directors.
31:14I do think that the moment…
31:16For an interest, you know, it's already starting to come.
31:18Of course.
31:18It's coming a lot.
31:19So, I think it's very positive.
31:21As far as cinema is,
31:23I think cinema has shown a lot of promising potential.
31:29It has.
31:30It has.
31:30I mean, we can't deny that.
31:31We can say that it's few and far between.
31:32But it's not that if we calculate the ratio to cinema,
31:36to box office,
31:38so on 60-70 screens, the numbers we're pulling
31:40are unheard of in other territories.
31:43And now you're also coming to the cinema.
31:46You haven't told me about your experience with Sajjal
31:48and Humayun's work.
31:51Sajjal, you've done the work with Sajjal.
31:54So, it's always great with her.
31:56She's extremely focused.
31:59She gives her a hundred percent.
32:01And also allows you to, you know.
32:04I mean, I remember our cake scene.
32:08A lot of movement she told me.
32:10Why don't you do it?
32:11So, she's always been a great supporter.
32:13Off screen, are you good friends with Sajjal?
32:15Reasonable.
32:16I mean, it's very respectful.
32:18And I think she in some ways understands what pressure is on me.
32:23You know, and so she makes it easy for me.
32:26So, this is the second time and I felt the same.
32:28You know, first time I had never done anything.
32:30So, this time I was prepared a bit.
32:33Comparatively.
32:34And she always makes you feel very...
32:39Obviously, MashaAllah, not just her name, but the caliber of her art is so strong.
32:47So, she's very generous that way.
32:51So, she's very generous that way.
32:52And my brother has been a massive learning masterclass.
33:01In not just the craft, but a lot as a human being.
33:05You know, you said that you don't want to become a producer.
33:07I would warn that if you become a producer one day, I can potentially be something like him.
33:10I saw that.
33:13I don't think any of this could exist if he wasn't as generous as he was.
33:19Farhad doesn't get that positioning if he doesn't have such a big heart.
33:23Because we all know this.
33:25That for an actor to give space to another person in his production, is his big part.
33:32So, I will always be grateful for that.
33:33This is true.
33:34Thank you so much, Azaan.
33:36It's been an absolute pleasure.
33:38Thank you, sir.
33:38I think that my friends and Azaan have been perfect.
33:41Now, Azaan will not give up to me.
33:43Now, I will not give up to Azaan.
33:45We'll see.
33:45And, Inshallah, when you have a film, it will be very soon.
33:49Then Azaan will come again.
33:50I didn't say anything.
33:51You didn't say anything.
33:53Look, I said that there is room for improvement.
33:55There is an expression that came out.
33:56You will have to be.
33:57I didn't say anything.
33:58You didn't say anything.
33:59Thank you so much.
34:00Thank you so much.
34:01On that note, on that note, we have to be happy.
34:03Inshallah, in the next week, we will be happy.
34:06We will be happy.
34:08I will be happy.
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