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On track again
He calls himself a ‘self-made man’. Youth, money, education and a loving family — Hasan Soomro seems to have it all. At the age of 31, he has achieved quite a lot.
Stepping into the world of showbiz in 1996, he began with modelling and was later discovered by Talat Hussain who introduced him to acting. He has worked in plays like Uljhan, Umeedon ke sayey and Sahil se duur, playing all kinds of roles — romantic, comic, negative, you name it.
“I have never felt bad about doing negative roles because acting is acting. A good actor shouldn’t mind playing anything as long as the role is interesting and challenging. I am a fighter who has learned most of his lessons on the field.”
Many may still remember him as the young hockey player who played at right out position for Pakistan. His sports career ended in 1989 when he got sick of the politics in sports. He completed his MBA and got work in a security agency, where he learned the business. Today he runs his own security company.
Where does he get the time to juggle two careers? Hasan says emphatically he doesn’t believe in the term, ‘having no time’.
“One doesn’t have time for many things. You have to be able to make time. There is a thing called time management.”
About two years ago he was at the peak of his career when all of a sudden he started refusing offers. Some thought that he had become too arrogant and that success had gone to his head. While others said that he was mistreating his producers and that it was they who had actually stopped signing him. But there was a genuine reason behind all this.
“My father was diagnosed with cancer and as I was extremely close to him I just couldn’t continue shooting. So I took a break. It was the thing to do as I knew I would be unable to do justice to my work,” he explains.
His father’s death left him totally shattered. It was during this disturbing period in his life that he says he was labelled a ‘spoiled brat’. Hasan doesn’t know what he had done to deserve it.
“Ask anyone I have worked with if I have ever given them any trouble. I am sure they will tell you how I even go out of my way to help others.”
Jealousy and backbiting is the name of the game in showbiz. People even accuse him of having affairs on a regular basis.
“Thank God my wife is broadminded enough to believe just anything. She just laughs it off otherwise I would get into a lot of trouble at home.” The problem perhaps lies in the fact that he is frank and even blunt at times. Maybe that’s what gets him into trouble. Hasan says it’s just not like him to keep anything in his heart so if there is something bothering him about a certain individual, he’ll just go ahead and confront him or her. “Isn’t it better to have everything cleared up?” He says innocently.
Time heals the deepest of wounds and Hasan says he recovered from his heartbreak and is back on the track. He is currently shooting for PTV’s Dard ke faasle written by Taj Haider and produced by Ali Rizvi. He is also hosting The Weekend Show, a kind of magazine show for ARY Digital, where, as he puts it, he manages to be blunt along with being friendly. He also has plans for setting up a production house. He has already produced a long play titled, Dost.
“All I want to do is work because that’s life,” he says with a smile. Hasan is once again ready to take on new challenges that come his way.
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