Sometimes, the fists will fly off in the wrong direction or the boy I am beating up won’t react the right way or a rickshaw will unknowingly drive past in the background!” Zulfiqar laughs. A single fist fight will get shot at least 10 times. Also, the action scenes don’t just get shot in one go. “It involves not just saying dialogues but saying them while jumping, attacking people, breaking things and running into cars. “My role in Chauraha is probably my most physically demanding one, to date,” he says. The diversity of the characters is testament to his acting prowess. And in Geo Entertainment’s Chauraha - possibly his most talked about role at this point in time - he’s the malevolent kidnapper who entraps girls by befriending them on social media. It is very likely that he will be the do-gooder who wins Saba Qamar’s heart in ARY Digital’s Fraud. In Aur Life’s Yeh Ishq Samajh Na Aaye, he is playing a husband who traps his wife through a fake social media account. To prove his point, he refers to three dramas of his that are currently on-air. I just believe in quantity over quality and I’ve been lucky that I’ve got the chance to play so many different roles. At other times, a role that I thought wouldn’t be liked much becomes a huge hit. Sometimes, I’ve enacted a character that I believe will be a huge success and it doesn’t get noticed. “Also, it’s difficult to gauge what’s good and what’s bad. The roles may be boring or exciting, but there shouldn’t be a break. I believe that an actor needs to be visible consistently. Don’t think there are no grey cellsĭoesn’t that mean, though, that he has often been stereotyped into enacting certain kinds of characters? “The roles of the rich boy who returns home after studying abroad are inevitable,” Zulfiqar concedes, “but I’ve never been very finicky. Zulfiqar is aware that his time on screen may soon be coming to an endĪnd he’s planning accordingly. Pakistani films, television and even Bollywood. He’s banked his good looks towards a flourishing acting career in Zulfiqar’s answer provides me with the perfect opening to volley out a series of questions that I have set aside for this interview, our very first detailed one - the first of many, I hope, given the interesting directions in which his career is moving… I don’t agree with the obsession for fair complexions, but I can’t deny that a lot of the initial roles that came to me may have been because of my looks. Sitting across from Zulfiqar in our first-ever long conversation - we’ve had short phone interviews frequently - I ask him, “So, what’s your beauty secret?” He may have honed his craft since those initial days and have a slew of hits to his credit, but the heartthrob status perseveres, and he still gets love letters from fans. Two decades ago, however, Zulfiqar steered off the catwalk, handing over the wheel to his inner actor and immediately became crush-fodder. As could be expected, he started off as a teenage fashion model. This is more of an objective fact than a personal observation. Mikaal Zulfiqar has also always been one of the country’s most good-looking and most famous faces.
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