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I prefer social dramas.
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Dramas
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I'm the eldest of three siblings.
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Eldest
Sibling
Three
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I love being on stage, nothing compares to it.
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Compares
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I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.
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Oxymoron
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I am privileged to have been a part of 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai.'
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Privileged
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I am very shy. It's the most stressful thing to be in the public eye.
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Public Eye
Stressful
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I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.
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Character
Likes
Believe I Am I Believe
Actor
Behind
Hide
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I like to travel and explore new places and simply love trying new cuisines.
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Travel
New Places
Love New Trying
Cuisines
Explore
Places
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Honestly a role is a role - whichever industry it is in - TV, stage or films.
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Honestly
Industry
Stage
Tv
Films
Role
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I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.
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Glamorous
Method
Realistic
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I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.
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Fantasy
Reality
Fantasy World
Guess
Housewives
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And I think it's important to remain loyal to your home country, from where you started.
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Loyal
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If you get too caught up with the superficial part of beauty, you get too self-conscious.
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Self Conscious
Superficial
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Promotions are insane! It's the toughest part about making a movie, for us actors at least.
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Insane
Promotions
Toughest
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In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.
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Short Film
Slightly
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I'd like to see us Pakistani actors do more work that reflects our culture, morals and values.
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Morals
Pakistani
Reflects
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I would love to work for the Indian Film Fraternity if the role offered suits my sensibilities.
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Fraternity
Love Work Film
Sensibilities
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People like my voice, which is funny because all my life my family has joked about my nasal voice.
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All My Life
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That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.
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Delivering
Short Films
Creatively
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Some actors are constantly on the phone, some are always looking into the mirror while some like to sit and bond.
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Mirror
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We need to have mental health support and early interventions integrated into our education system from a young age.
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Health
Integrated
Mental Health
Support
Young Age
Education Health Age
Early
Mental
System
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There are times when I am supposed to get off work by seven but only reach home by midnight because of production delays.
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Midnight
Work Home I Am
Delays
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No, I am not looking at being a part of television in India, but I may consider movies, if I get to play a strong character.
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Strong Character
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I enjoy singing but I lack the proper training to make it as a solo artist. Instead, I feel I've found my niche with acting.
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Niche
Solo
Solo Artist
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Our actors are crossing borders and now so are our stories. And that is what I saw in 'Bachaana.' The film is light and easy.
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Borders
Crossing
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I've always admired actors such as Tabu, Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi and I'd like to do the kind of roles that they have done.
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Admired
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Nothing should be banned. Anything that is progressive and contributes something to society shouldn't come in the way of politics.
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Banned
Progressive
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I have done and want to do roles that portray women in a strong light and inspire those women who think they are weak and helpless.
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Helpless
Inspire
Weak
Portray
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The memories I can gather now of my parents are quite contradicting. My mother was the disciplinarian and my dad was the rule breaker.
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Memories
Breaker
Dad Parents Mother
Disciplinarian
Gather
Rule
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Haseeb Hassan is a fantastic director. He really understands characters and their relationships. He always gives sound advice and direction.
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Understands
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'Cake' is a simple, almost traditional and relatable story, that highlights family values and intimate relationship dynamics within a family.
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Relationship
Cake
Dynamics
Family Values
Highlights
Intimate
Simple
Traditional
Within
Almost
Story
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In films, usually we see romantic relationships between a hero and a heroine all the time. But we rarely see love between the older generations.
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Generations
Love Time Romantic
Heroine
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The perception of how a couple should argue, whose voice should be raised and who should be a dominant player has been altered in 'Dobara Phir Se.'
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Altered
Dominant
Perception
Argue
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During the inception of 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai,' we studied the characters and the script in depth so that we could imbibe the essence of it in our performance.
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Depth
Essence
Inception
Studied
Performance
Script
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My mother was an art school teacher and my father was an interior designer. So we've been relatively open minded as opposed to my conservative maternal side.
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Art School
Designer
Maternal
Interior
Minded
Relatively
School Teacher
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I want my sheer work to to speak for my talent and it will be quite an achievement, I believe, if producers and directors look at my work and offer me something.
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Achievement
Sheer
Work Believe Me
Work Look Believe
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I've seen the effect some of my shows have had, and so I like characters that can be role models for young girls, roles that can help to change people's perspective.
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Models
Role Models
Young Girls
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The more real and genuine we are about ourselves, the more others will know that there is no shame in struggling, or feeling low, or anxious or having bad days - we all have them.
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Anxious
Genuine
Bad Days
Low
Struggling
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I wouldn't want to take the late night subway in the U.S. or go for a late night stroll in the U.K. Women feel insecure anywhere in the world where they may become victims of predatory behavior.
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Behavior
Insecure
Late
Predatory
Subway
Anywhere
Stroll
Victims
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India uses Bollywood, rather cinema, to tell its stories. It is one of the largest filmmaking nations in the world and so your talents get to tell stories about politics, love and drama through films.
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Bollywood
Filmmaking
Talents
Largest
Uses
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In Pakistan, our medium is the small screen. We don't make many films, and hardly have theaters. A majority of people seek entertainment while sitting at home and TV gives it to them, so we excel on that part.
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Pakistan
Excel
Hardly
Theaters
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Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.
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Hiding
Mental Health
Pakistan
Health People Will
Although
Extremely
Go Away
Ignoring
Issue
Mental
More And More
Nowadays
Talked
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I have been lucky; I have never been followed or harassed and I do tend to drive alone at night, but I'd always inadvertently opt for a route that has more traffic or has police or rangers stationed in the vicinity.
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Rangers
Traffic
Vicinity
Followed
Harassed
Inadvertently
Route
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That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when a woman tells me that she continued to study after watching my dramas - those comments mean a lot.
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Achievement
Comments
Dramas
Marry
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The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the masses, there is only TV. A lot of them sit at home and watch TV as they can't afford other forms of entertainment. So, we try to do shows which have inspirational value.
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Inspirational
Entertainment
Hollywood
Internet
Majority
Middle Class
Afford
Forms
Masses
Options
Upper
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We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society - bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.
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Health
Society
Abuse
Anxiety
Bullying
Etc
Gender
Identifying
Issues
Media
Mental Health
Negativity
Social
Social Media
Source
Speak
Stigma
Substance
Triggers
Violence
Need
More
Aggravate
Get
Around
Based
Maternal
Mental
Problems
Start
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I think I couldn't balance my marriage and my mother's deteriorating health. I realized it was unfair to my husband to have my divided attention. I understood he deserved better and should go for that. He deserved the attention of a partner, not another headache, and I didn't want to share my time with anyone else but my mother.
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Health
Attention
Balance
Deteriorating
Divided
Headache
Husband
My Time
Share
Understood
Unfair
Anyone Else
Deserved
Partner
Realized
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