Wednesday, December 24, 2014

PK Movie - A Review From My Point Of View

Aamir Khan is one of my role model actors and I like him since childhood. His creativity, variety in acting as well as tries to do something different in the movies always attracted me. This creativity also makes him different from other Bollywood actors that’s why he is popular as "Mr. Perfectionist" in the industry.

I watched his newly comer movie PK last night and I accept that this time, the guy also did something very different. Aamir Khan fans always think that his any upcoming project will be considered as one of the most anticipated movies in Bollywood and Aamir proves it too. So like his other movies, PK also proved that it is different from other traditional movies. It is directed by Raj Kumar Hirani who also has done some very successful projects before like 3 Idiots, Munna Bhai MBBS, etc.

PK is all about an alien-liked traitor guy who has wide eyes and log ears. The guy explores the world and his too much innocence doesn't allow him to adjust. First, he started his journey from Rajasthan where he met Sanjay Dutt who lightly cares him and told him about some rules of life because PK had no clear senses. After that, he moved to Delhi where he met a journalist Anushka Sharma who explored his personality more. Anushka was in love with a Pakistani guy and both were separated due to a tragedy and then, PK plays a role to re-unite them.


Actually PK is a guy who is in search of true God. He experimented and then found that mocked Gods in different forms have no meaning. About God, PK always asks such generic questions about religion from the common public which were never thought before. So, the movie proves it that God has different forms but actual God lives in our hearts. He listens our thoughts, ideas and do whatever is best for us. Tantriks and other spirituals always make the public fool and play with their sentiments. So Aamir played such a great role to show about the actuality of God. According to me, director has chosen the right candidate for such an inquisitive role that no other one can play.

Except Aamir, all the other participants played best to perform their powerful roles. Sanjay Dutt, Anushka Sharma, Boman Irani and Saurabh Shukla were seen perfect in their respective performances. Last but not least, appearance of Ranbir Kapoor was a surprise for Aamir's fans. This last scene shows that may be second part of PK will also be made in which Ranbir performs as lead role. Atleast, audience expected this.

I appreciate the strong screenplay, direction, script, meaningful and provoked dialogs of the movie that make people feel about the search of God in a true form. So I think it is the movie which can be watched more than one times. As I said before that Aamir always does something different and he proved it that time now. I suggest to all the people who are in search of true God and who has some question regarding the existence of God, should watch this movie. Their concepts will be cleared.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

I Am Getting Acting Education

First of all, so sorry guys from last couple of months, I was so busy and unable to write, manage and even open that blog. I know my some readers and fans are consecutive subscriber and like to read my posts so I apologize to all of them. Now, I will try to update my blog frequently as like before.



Actually the reason behind my long absence from the blog is my continuing studies as well as my media related activities. In the holy month of Ramadan, I met a reknown artist Ali Sheikh for the purpose of acting who is not a formal actor like the majority one in the Pakistan Showbiz Industry. He is passed out from National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) and knows about acting in depth. After meeting him, I realized that acting has a vast field that contains its proper history and education. This education is given in NAPA and original actors are trained in that institute. So after meeting him, my thoughts have been changed regarding acting. I realized the difference between formal and original actors.

Now, I am successfully getting trained by Ali bhai as an actor and I have found the right way now. I am internally satisfied. It is true that I am not struggling to be a formal actor but atleast I am getting proper education in acting regarding its every aspect like history, diction, inflation in sentences, improvisation, etc. If someone asks me regarding acting tricks and its tenuity then I will easily explain these things. So now, I have no any desire to be a famous super star. If I become super star or not, atleast my heart and soul is satisfied that I get proper education in acting and being not a star, I will be better than lots of super stars in Pakistani Media Industry.

I will further write the detail blog on formal and original acting later because I am currently in the learning phase and I have to know many things deeply. I just want to give an advice to those youngsters who want to be the actor in the future, get proper education of it from NAPA, Arts Council or any other good art institute or atleast get training from any one actor who is passed out from any good art institute.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

SEO, Web Development and Media - A Tough Life to Manage

As human being, we have some responsibilities. The first one is that we want to earn something to eat and live. For this purpose, we become professionals and mostly we adopt those professions in which we have interest. Some people have a motive of life that they want to adopt such professions in which they can earn more and more, even if they have lake of interest. Normally a human spends his whole life to work in a single field and it is true that one field is enough for life. But some people also adopt more than one fields and try to get expertise in all these. The majority doesn't get success in all professions because atleast one field remains weak for that person. The biggest problem in adopting more than one fields is to manage these with equality. But there are some people exist in the world who got good success in all the professions which they adopted.

Like others, I also adopted more than one fields. First I want to tell you that I am a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) and I am in this profession since 2008. I have good experience of it and since that time, I have been working from basic to research level optimization. I am also at a good position now in a reputable IT firm of the country. But in the market, I felt that SEO is not enough for me and I have to do something extra as a support to that profession. As I am an IT bug so I thought that I should go for the web development. I am already in the internet marketing field so I did diploma in PHP Web Development in 2013. I have clear concepts of computer programming that's why I understood PHP better. But it doesn't mean that I left SEO. Actually web development is always very supportive for SEO that's why learning PHP was a plus point for me as an SEO. I managed and I am still managing both successfully Alhamdolillah. I never faced any problem regarding the management of both.



The third field in which I entered is media (showbiz). Media has many other fields itself but I entered in acting. The story started in two years before when I generally went to Jaag TV (formerly called CNBC channel) for open auditions with my friends. It was a campaign of acting competition that started by popular actress and model Ayesha Omar in her morning show Yeh Waqt Hai Mera. I filled the form and gave audition. I don't know so far that it was my luck or my own talent that Alhamdolillah I was in the top ten participants who selected for grand finale. Famous director of TV dramas Haider Imam Rizvi selected me for grand finale after watching my audition. I am very excited on that time and I played the grand finale. I couldn't win but it was an honor for me that I am in the top 10 finalist of that competition. When I went to the stage to perform in front of a crowd including judges who are the popular media personalities like Shamoon Abbasi, Seema Ghazal, Kazim Pasha, Rauf Lala, etc. then I felt a lot of motivation myself as an actor. The crowd also appreciated me a lot. After that, I thought that if I have a talent of it so I should also prove myself as an actor so I entered in this field too. Now, I have successfully done modeling in "Raabta" magazine of Pakistan (February 2012 edition), acting in 2 dramas of crime reenactment and modeling in 2 songs of GEO TV (one in the title song of the program "Geo Shaan Se" and 1 in the Election Campaign 2013 song of Mr. Jeem).

So, currently I am working in 3 fields in which 1 is totally different from others two and the remaining two are almost similar, I say directly proportional to each other. Many people including my friends and fans always ask me one question, "Fahad! How do you manage?" I understand and have experienced that multi-tasking is definitely not easy. You can't work simultaneously in more than one fields. So I fix the days to manage these fields. SEO and Web Development are mostly related to each other so I can perform both at a time and I do. But I always keep my media working on Saturday and Sunday. The reason is that acting field has no long term future. In fact, I say that never make acting your profession because it is not a constant work. Today you have lots of projects but tomorrow may be you have nothing. So, I am doing acting as a hobby. I do never want to make it my profession. I am Alhamdolillah educated and I always prove myself as an IT professional. Also, in the media field especially in acting and modeling, only a few works are on merit basis. Giving bribe, "give and take" works are quite common to cross the ladders of success in showbiz. That's why I am still not working properly in media and couldn't get any big project. Yes but some fans ask me, "If you get any good project in media then what will you do and how will you manage on that time?" I say, "It depends on the condition of that time and I will think about it because I will not want to miss that chance and I will also have to manage my other tasks, so I will try to divide these tasks on daily, weekly or monthly basis (depends on the situation) or any other plan which I will make on that time." So, let's see what happens in the future.