Originally posted by: Winterberry
It’s okay all actors go thru slump phase and post a show like TB the expectations and buzz is usually high. Wahaj is good actor he will bounce back ! One good show and everyone will forget one which didn’t go well ! Everyone said how Zaid looked so dull and wardrobe was bad and he did work on it as BA. SMD on paper was simple , his kind of char loner , craving for love with good dialogue's but the execution is what failed him and he couldn’t have guessed it before hand . He definitely must be seeing TRP and knows the ground chatter so he will be cautious with next script because honestly who would have thought KRQ show helmed by HH would turn out to be like this . Like I said they complicated a simple script trying to make it something else - my guess they were aiming SMD to be another MPTH .
You can downplay it all you like but SMD is not an average bad or flop show. It's an epic disaster. Dau kori ki izzat nahi rahi hai. Wahaj's hype post-TB was being compared to Fawad's hype post-Humsafar. He shot to the same tier as Danish and Feroze all of a sudden. Now he's at the level of an Imran Ashraf. All in a span of 1.5 years. Hype toh kam hui magar credibility or izzat ka jo falooda bana uska kya. AAA lost hype after PZ but at least no one doubts his cred as an act. This is even worse carer management than Affan Waheed. Sure Wahaj can get another hit tomorrow but the shine's off.
If he had bothered to read the script he would have known how much sceentime BA had. or that BA barely gets any depth, dimensions and independent tracks in the writing. i COUNTED and at least one third of Wahaj scenes so far are filler scenes with him looking broody and sad but which has no connect to scene before of after. Same 2-3 expressions be it khambe se latakte huey, fondling lamps, staring into fireplaces, lying on various sofas, piano play karte huey, leaning against walls and windows, stumbling around, sitting by the pool, in the garden, on the table, on the couch, on the bed. dressed in various nightsuits and robes. no dialogue. same 2-3 expressions. scenes which are randomly inserted to pad up ss and do not drive the plot. even with this pad up, his screentime feels less. picking scripts because you get 3-4 scenes in which to perform is a terrible selection criteria.