Better Actor in Pakistani Dramas..

Oh well i was Happy with Arfeens character, having read the novel before watching the show. and Faisla Qureshi is a diverse actor, he has done so many different roles and that too with marked excellency that i would never rate him as a poor actor. i really consider him one of the best. do go for his other projects. i am sure you will change your perception after watching more of him.

Faisal Qureshi a drawback in MZZB? wow, that's a first.

I would highly recommend watching Fahad Mustafa's work.

Originally posted by: AshesToDust

Oh well i was Happy with Arfeens character, having read the novel before watching the show. and Faisla Qureshi is a diverse actor, he has done so many different roles and that too with marked excellency that i would never rate him as a poor actor. i really consider him one of the best. do go for his other projects. i am sure you will change your perception after watching more of him.

Originally posted by: starstruckk

Faisal Qureshi a drawback in MZZB? wow, that's a first.

I love both Faisal Q and Fawad, they're great in their own right. However, Fawad is not in the same league as Faisal. Faisal Qureshi is in a league of his own. This guy has proven his versatility like no other meanwhile Fawad truthfully has been stuck within the whole loverboy image with his roles in Dastaan/ZGH/Humsafar.

Personally, I loved Faisal Qureshi as Arfeen. I don't think there's anyone who could've pulled that character off better than him. I'm not too sure how not being able to relate to Arfeen's character has much to do with Faisal's portrayal of it? I don't think any of us really could relate to Arfeen's character because what he did to Saba could not be justified at all which made it hard for anyone to sympathize with him as opposed to sympathizing with Saba..however, that does not take away from the fact that Faisal was exceptional in MZZB. Of course, you think otherwise..but it's fair to agree to disagree.

Apart from that, if you want to further watch Faisal's work, then I'd suggest Qaid e Tanhai, Roag, Harjaee, Wujood e Laraib and even Main Abdul Qadir Hoon. Main Abdul Qadir Hoon has Fahad Mustafa as the lead and he's absolutely brilliant.

Deb - I'd urge you to give Fahad Mustafa's dramas a go and see how you find them. Start off with the most recent being 'Kankar' and see how it goes. Watch it for the acting of the two lead pairs Sanam Baloch & Fahad Mustafa. Two terrific performances while Baloch had the drama hinged around her but Fahad was just incredible essaying such a complex character, the actor of deep expressions as they say.

nauman ijaz's acting is good too...watch mera saeen part 1 too..i liked it

Humsafar was an out and out mills and boons type love story. Asher was a lousy husband, but the director and writer set everything up so that girls swoon over his broody exterior. If girls didn't fall in love with Asher the drama wouldn't have made an impact, so they pulled out all the stops to make this emotionally abusive and socially stuck up character 'relatable'.

Asher and Khirad are like the Pakistani version of Chuck/Blair (I haven't watched that show but read a lot about the destructive relationship), or Bella/Edward. I really don't rate them at all.

So I think you related to Asher because he was meant to be relatable, it was a romance drama and if you didn't relate to him the drama wouldn't have done as well as it did. It's got nothing to do with Fawad being an excellent actor. He is a good actor, but is nowhere near one of the best. Fahad Mustafa, Adnan Siddiqui, Faisal Qureshi, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Noman Ijaz (who is probably the best actor in Pakistan) Sami Khan, etc. are all better actors.

Fawad has potential to become an excellent actor but he picks really easy roles, I think his best drama was Zindagi Gulzar Hai (and even that dragged on), but the role he had in it was easy.

Regarding Afreen, you weren't supposed to relate to him the way you related to Asher. MZZBN is not a love story it's a social drama, your supposed to identify and understand the flaws in the characters, and empathise with their situation, relating to them wouldn't be a good thing because the whole point of the drama was that relationships like Afreen and Saba's are bad and should be eradicated from our society.

Afreen was an idiot, he was spoilt and only knew how to throw tantrums and get what he wanted, he had no clue about how you sustain and nurture healthy relationships. He messed up with both his wives. He only regretted what happened to Saba when he found out the truth, otherwise he was stuck on justifying what happened. You shouldn't be able to relate to someone like that.

Having said that I really did empathise with Afreen towards the end, he changed for the better, and Faisal Q really made you believe that Afreen is suffering on a daily basis in regret for the way he treated Saba. I think he did become relatable towards the end in the sense that, we all sin and want forgiveness and deserve forgiveness so we can become better people. He tried to make up for what he did by taking in Saba's daughter and giving her more love than he gave his own son.

Afreen was an extremely complex character and Faisal Q did justice to the role. I genuinely don't think Fawad was better in Humfsafar. Faisal in MZZBN was miles ahead.

hassan niazi is my best tv acor and he also doing lot more in pak drama's