A circle of relatives drama concentrated around an aged guy’s quest for love, Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed’s Barzakh turned into the best South Asian selection at Series Mania this yr. Debuted on the show off’s International Panorama, it was eligible for the pleasant series, director, actress, actor, student jury, and target market awards. It turned into additionally the primary ever Indo-Pak go-border collection to optimum globally.
Helmed by director Asim Abbasi of Cake and Churails repute, the series, to be had on ZEE5, explores intergenerational trauma among fathers and sons. Shot in Karachi and the picturesque Hunza Valley, it’s far framed inside a fantastical global of supernatural beings and otherworldly activities that monitor the chasms between lifestyles, dying and rebirth. Produced by Waqas Hassan and Shailja Kejriwal, it sees Fawad play a single, guilt-ridden determine at the same time as Sanam essays the lady protagonist.Both the actors are acknowledged to be pretty picky approximately their roles. While Fawad is well-known for disappearing from the screens, only to reappear in a completely new avatar, Sanam is known for diversifying her performing graph with characters like Kashaf (Zindagi Gulzar Hai), Zara (Cake), Zuvi (Qatil Haseenaon Ke Naam) and Akhtar (Ishrat Made in China). Speaking approximately Barzakh – her 2d task with Asim – the actor, in an interview for the Film Companion, said, “I even have fallen in love with each script of Asim’s that I’ve read. Be it a short film, function movie or a mini-series, his tales are relatable and feature regularly occurring subject matters. His characters are wrong, vulnerable, real humans and now not saints or Satan.”
The actor said she enjoys the author and director’s angle on existence and the minor details about his characters that upload quirky nuances to the script. “His testimonies come from a real tangible, emotional, place. The reality that he is the writer and director of the tasks I’ve worked on makes the task all the extra fulfilling as an actor.”
Barzakh additionally marks Sanam’s 2nd project with Fawad Khan – the primary being Zindagi Gulzar Hai, their hit TV series – that too, after ten years. About returning to the display with the now, Maula Jatt famous person, and the strain of reigniting the flame as soon as fuelled through Kashaf and Zaroon’s chemistry, she remarked, “I assume a 10-year hole manner audiences have modified, outgrown positive pairings and are keen to look clean ideas. Themes and dynamics from a decade in the past may not be as applicable these days.”
Sanam additionally confident that the target market “might be in for a large surprise and optimistically, respect the performances of all the actors within the show. I’m excited to peer what the new generation of visitors consider us.”When requested approximately the great perception that she turns down extra scripts than she accepts, Sanam held, “It’s genuine. I truly end up having to reject extra scripts. There are less than a handful of first-rate scripts that glide around every two years. But there are many actors who’re able to portraying the characters in such scripts and there are several able administrators hungry for such scripts as nicely. I think it’s miles a remember of being inside the right location at the proper time.”
About herself evolving as an actor over the years, Sanam meditated, “I’d say I haven’t advanced as an awful lot as I’d appreciated to have. I experience a strong want and urgency to get some training now. That I consider will help me in refining my craft, getting to know new strategies, and will assist me in shedding my inhibitions a tad more.” The famous person, who’s always outperformed herself and rarely left visitors aching for greater intensity, persevered, “I experience there is lots of vehicle-pilot performing this is going on given the circumstances and similar narratives. It leaves little room to test or ruin the mould — or maybe that’s fear speaking! But I’m surely open and geared up to examine new tricks of the exchange and push my limits.”
Asked if she “fears anonymity”, Sanam spoke back, “I just like the concept of mystery around me. I don’t want to be overly uncovered. Going out and being seen once in a blue moon is more attractive to me both as a movie star and as an admirer of a superstar. I try my high-quality for my paintings to speak for me in place of my outings and appearances. After all, we simplest remember how an actor’s overall performance made us feel — we remember them for his or her body of labor, not how many activities they attended. Outings are transient reminiscences; display screen presence is more everlasting. At least that’s what I’d want to believe.”