That role was just a value addition to Bol,” Atif said. Atif - or rather his debut in the Shoaib Mansoor-directed film Bol - already did that in 2011. One often expects singers and pop icons to take up roles that cash in their vocation in their acting debuts. “I hope it’s not just the trailers,” Atif responded over the phone - and yes, it’s not. It was the “I told you so” moment I had foretold Atif when we had had a long telephonic conversation a day before the event.įrom the snip-bits of the many promos that primarily feature Hilmand - Sang-i-Mah’s principal selling point - one can see Atif’s allure, his screen presence and the inkling of the nuances he employed when acting the part out. A noted female journalist even gushed her sentiments out loud during the brief Q&A session, overwhelmed by the acting prowess of the new leading man. Putting the technical and artistic merits of the presentation on one side, members of the journalistic fraternity had their attention gripped by Hilmand, the character played by Atif Aslam. The only thing that gave away its television roots was the unremitting use of the show’s main background score. The long-presentation, with sobering colours befitting a cinema release, felt more filmic than most motion pictures made in Pakistan. The amalgamated weight of this sheer prowess overcame the patronising congregation of entertainment reporters, critics and bloggers who attended its premiere at Nueplex DHA, where roughly an episode-and-a-half from the show were cut into a nearly 62-minute long ‘cine-cut’ (the episode airing today will have 15 or 20 additional minutes of story).
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But newly launched serial Sang-i-Mah is much bigger than the pop star-turned-actor who, as he himself confesses, is now bitten by the acting bug
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One can see Atif Aslam’s dedication on screen as the presumed antihero Hilmand in his TV acting debut. The actual distinction comes from its writing (Mustafa Afridi, who wrote Superstar’s dialogues and the screenplays of Sang-i-Mar Mar and Ehd-i-Wafa), the execution (Saife Hasan), the all-star casting (Sania Saeed, Samiya Mumtaz, Noman Ijaz, his son Zaviyar Noman Ijaz, Omair Rana, Hania Aamir and Kubra Khan), and of course, the quality of production. Now that I think about it, Sang-i-Mah doesn’t sound all that different - we’ve seen shows with similar elements before. The title’s uniqueness suits the tale, for this show is a welcome departure from the norms of television: a tale of familial intrigue and conflict in the shadow of a pertinent social and cultural issue, set in a picturesque location in the hills and valleys of northern Pakistan. The words refer to ‘stone’ and ‘moon’ - or rather, moonstone its closest Arabic equivalent being hijr-i-qamar. Sang-i-Mah is a make-believe term whose meaning was clarified by director Saife Hasan during a late night phone call. The cat being Atif Aslam in his television acting debut, worthy of his stature as a pop icon, and the bag, the Momina and Duraid Qureshi-produced epic drama Sang-i-Mah, which debuted last Sunday on Hum TV, and whose second episode you will likely see on television (or maybe YouTube) today. By the time you’re reading this, the cat will already have sprung out of the bag.