As soon as the teasers of Mohabbatein Chahatein were released recently, the viewers saw a familiar face in it, and that too for the first time in three years.
The drop-dead gorgeous Armeena Rana Khan’s return is as much anticipated as Junaid Khan and Hira Mani’s team up after Kashf.
What makes Armeena’s comeback worthwhile is the fact that she is playing the main antagonist for the first time in six years, and secondly, she had to defeat COVID-19 to re-join the project.
Spotlight met the Bin Roye beauty recently and asked her why she chose to come back after COVID-19 disrupted everything earlier this year, and what makes this drama different from her earlier plays, especially on HUM TV. Read on:
On staying away from TV for 3 years
Daldal was the last time audiences saw me on their televisions. It was a challenge for me because I was required to play an economically disadvantaged-middle-class housewife. So I had to study and understand that character to understand what were her hopes and fears, what motivated her, and how she functioned.
After Daldal, I wanted to kick on and do something that would help change the content in our industry. The audiences have been asking for it and as an actor, I am ready to deliver on it. Sadly the all-pervasive TRPs constrained the roles and stories to the same old stolid emotional paper-mâché. So I simply took a break to spend time at home back in England.
During this time I worked in a couple of films and commercials but chose to stay away from TV dramas, as they require a significantly longer commitment. Mohabbatein Chahatein was finally offered to me as something different and I am grateful to the makers for trusting me to help deliver this proposition.
On her new drama with Junaid Khan, Hira Mani
Junaid Khan and I worked on Bin Roye previously, even though we didn’t share any scenes since our characters were on differing story arcs. So it was good to link up again in March this year on this project. But then the Corona pandemic brought a halt to proceedings.
However, I believe in destiny and felt that it would take more than a pandemic to keep me away from my fans, my passion, and my return to TV. So when the shooting resumed, I decided to fly back in and finish what we had started.
The response to the teasers of Mohabbatein Chahatein has been exciting. Of course, Junaid and Hira bring their own set of fans and a wealth of acting knowledge to the project. I await the audience’s feedback to this play with bated breath. There has been a disruption to the content on our screens so we need something to really spark curiosity back into the viewership. I hope this play will do the trick.
On the continuing revival of the Pakistan industry and its future direction
Well look the revival has been going on long enough now and there comes a point where one must decide whether the corpse has now been revived to a point where it is functioning autonomously or whether you are merely flogging a cadaver. I understand that events such as the economy, the hostility from across the border, and of course the current pandemic have not helped.
But we need clarity and honesty from all stakeholders as to what we want and expect. For example, the government wants content such as the ‘Ertugrul’ but is it willing to match the investment the Turks have made in their cultural arts? If not then we are heading for cultural extinction.
The audiences state they want new and challenging productions, yet are they and the censor boards willing to create a tolerant environment that is the midwife to such wishes?
The recent banning of “Churails’ suggests otherwise. So we will keep seeing ‘Saas and Baha’ conflicts dominating our screens and damaging the national psyche, unless and until the Government, audiences, and of course the advertisers start to invest in and support original and challenging content.
On returning to HUM TV, again!
It is always good to be back on HUM TV. This is the channel where I became the dangerous Fizza Arham in Mohabbat Ab Nahi Hogi, the immature Haniya in Karb, the girl-next-door Saman in Bin Roye, and the devoted Hira in Daldal.
The friendly and safe environment provided at HUM TV kept me motivated and while working in Mohabbatein Chahatein, I realized that was what I was missing the most. I would not call this drama a comeback, but a second inning, for I believe I still have a lot to offer to my fans.
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