Saturdays are now spent waiting for Dil Ruba, the HUM TV play where Hania Aamir’s Sanam makes boys go gaga over her.
In the six episodes that have aired so far, Sanam has made a fool of her first (step) cousin Sabeeh (Mohib Mirza), her silent lover Junaid (Shahroz Sabzwari), a friend of her neighbor Ayaz (Asad Siddiqui), by getting accidentally married to Razi (Nabeel Zuberi) whom till recently she considered her phupu ka ladka. It’s a good thing that every actor who has played ‘Romeo’ in the play looks the part, and kudos to the director Ali Hassan for doing that skilfully.
Spotlight decided to talk to these ‘Dil Ruba boys’ and asked them what made them go for the role they are eventually portraying, and why, with additional comment from the ‘baddest’ boy of ‘em all, the director himself!
Mohib Mirza (Sabeeh, The First Cousin Turned Brother In Law)
For Sabeeh it was always a tricky route to Sanam; his step-mother (Laila Wasti) was angry at her sister in law (Marina Khan) for rejecting their proposal for elder daughter Iram (Durre Fisha), and that one incident made them drift apart for a long time. Enters Sanam, who greets Sabeeh like one should greet her first-cousin, and he misunderstands her frankness as a sign for something more than a friendship.
Since his proposal for elder sister was rejected because of his age, going for the younger one would have been a certain no-no. But before he could share his feelings with his family, Sanam entered the house as his sister-in-law. Ouch!
I could have easily opted for some other character in the play and pulled it off but Sabeeh is something special; as an actor, this character gives me the depth I was searching for. His character will develop with the story, it gave me margin to perform and things will become intense for him, making it all the more reasons for me to agree to play Sabeeh. As the story moves forward, the audience will realize that as Sabeeh, I had a lot to offer and by the time the drama ends, they will understand my reasons for doing it, Mohib Mirza speaks.
He also mentioned, ‘For me, the most important thing at this point in my career is to majorly portray what a man goes through in life, his catharsis, and his feelings that aren’t shown the way they deserve to be shown on TV. I am not motivated to portray a super conflicting negative role, roles that I have undertaken in the past for that very reason. Deedan was all about a man’s catharsis and so is Dil Ruba.’
Asad Siddiqui (Ayaz, The Photographer Turned Blackmailer)
In the initial episode, Ayaz came across as your friendly neighborhood wedding photographer who opened his studio to Sanam and her friends. He was not just the friend of Sanam’s neighbor but took some stunning pictures of her during the wedding of that neighbor/friend.
It was only in the fifth episode that his true intentions become clear as he gets a friend to click some objectionable pictures of him and Sanam so that he can blackmail her later on. His plan falls down with a thud when he finds out that Sanam is now married to Razi; let’s so how he manages to carry on with his dirty plan now.
My character has different shades in the drama and the reason I went for Ayaz is that someone had to play it convincingly to warn all the youngsters out there. The girls and boys of today might be more tech-savvy than us but they are not well-versed in the practicalities of life. It is through entertainment that we can educate them and if one or two youngsters get the message, my work is done, says Asad Siddiqui.
Asad further adds, Ayaz may be the all-out bad character in the play but Sanam made him into a bad man, before meeting her he was just the friendly neighborhood photographer, who used his studio and camera for a few extra bucks (laughs). As the story unfolds, you will see Ayaz do things that people should know about, and warn their kids before it is too late.
Shahroz Sabzwari (Junaid, The Typical Lover Boy)
To play a typical lover boy was nothing new for Shahroz Sabzwari as he had been doing that for quite some time now. He looks young (courtesy his Sabzwari genes) and the scenes where he asks his mother (Huma Nawab) to help him out, their chemistry is too adorable.
Enters the man of the house, dad (Khaled Anam) who not only finds out that his son was using his mother to get freebies from their cloth shop but handing it over to a girl he barely knows. Since his ultimatum to his wife that they should go to Sanam’s place to ask for her hand in marriage, Junaid has been under the weather.
Nabeel Zuberi (Razi, The First Cousin Turned Accidental Husband)
It was always a win-win scenario for Razi who was all set to marry Zoya from the very first episode. However, due to the greedy nature of the bride-to-be’s mother, things got out of hand and he ended up marrying the only eligible girl in the family, Sanam. Had Razi known that Sanam was the reason why his elder step-brother was heartbroken, that she was the one for whom he was buying clothes and that she is never serious when it comes to boys, he might not have gone ahead with the plan but now, he is all set to accept Sanam as his lawful wife, without having any clue that he was never in the line for her hand.
The reason why I went for the role of Razi was that a) it suited the age bracket I am in and b) because it had different shades. At this point in the drama, he is married to Sanam but that’s something that he accepted to honor his family’s elders. For him, the Zoya chapter is over but Sanam’s chapter hasn’t begun, because he has no clue what he is getting into. She is his cousin but with a backstory that he has no clue about, Nabeel Zuberi tells Spotlight.
He further tells us, the drama will become more intense in the coming weeks and Razi will be an integral part of it. He is important to the plot in many ways than the audience can imagine at this point.
Syed Jibran (Coming Soon)
He may not have appeared yet in the drama but Syed Jibran’s face on the title suggests that it will wreak havoc when he would make an entry.
Although he hasn’t revealed anything about his character, the only thing he has said ‘My character will not be surrounded by mystery when it appears in the drama as he did in Ranjha Ranjha Kardi. He is going to take matters in his own hand and be bad, be very very bad for those who have wronged others.’ Interesting, isn’t it?
Director Ali Hassan, the ‘baddest’ boy of all!
And then there was the director Ali Hassan who had to wear the hats of all the boys to make them stay in character. When asked with whom he sympathized the most during the shoot, he had a lot to add.
‘In Dil Ruba everyone is the victim and while I don’t sympathize with Ayaz’s character who is the main antagonist, I sympathize with two out of the remaining three. Junaid’s character is the one that is there to send a message to all the young boys out there who have no exposure to the girls and the first girl that sends them a signal (or just talks to them nicely), they fall in love with her. It has more to do with their upbringing and our culture than anything else and all I can say is that if they learn a thing or two from Dil Ruba, I would be content with our work, says Ali Hassan.
He further stated, ‘Then there is Razi who got married to a girl who broke hearts before settling with someone she doesn’t even like so that her life gets set. It happens in our society and doesn’t necessarily have to be a girl; boys are also like that. Razi deserved better than Sanam and that’s why I sympathize with him. However, people should not criticize Sabeeh’s character for going back to his Uncle’s house for a rishta, after being rejected once. Love makes a person does crazy things and Sabeeh’s character is the poster boy of that. He deserved the best because he was sincere from his side but didn’t and that’s why I sympathize with his character the most!’
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