Those of us who have seen 33 year old actor Muzamil Ibrahim in action in web series Special Ops will agree that his role is physically very demanding. The actor says that the series required a lot of preparation. “It was physically challenging as it required a lot of action. We had to put a lot more in the preparation than you actually see. People are saying that it has been quite a turning point in my career. It’s such a big hit. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect. People have been calling and saying that show is amazing and that it will change my career, but let’s see. I don’t see life in this way. One can never be sure in our industry,” he says.

Talking about his future plans, Muzamil says, “I am taking baby steps at the moment. I was always hungry for good work but there weren’t opportunities. But thanks to the OTT platforms coming in, now there are.”

 

 

 

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Dhokha, year 2007, debuting at the age of 21, in 4th year of my college, playing a mature married man at that age had its own challenges; (having no facial hair wasn’t the only one) . Everyone told me not to do it, including my father. To this day he never wanted me to play such a mature role at that a young age and was completely against my choice then (he still blames me for taking it up, but loves how I performed). Even though I had the option of choosing other more commercial subjects from few of the top production houses in the country I still went with this one. Many people ask me the reason why I choose such a serious film for my debut and at that young an age? (In our industry actors shy away from playing husband even in their mid 30s). The answer is, I always gravitated towards serious cinema and I loved Mahesh Bhatt Sirs realistic films. Bhatt Sir while signing me for the film told me that this film will be read out in your obituary and rightly so. There hasn’t been a day, week or month gone by over these past 12 years when people haven’t told me how well I had performed in the film. And messages never cease to stop. It will perhaps be my most challenging performance emotionally to come in a long time. I never used glycerine for tears or depended on any tricks to act, I didn’t act, coz I didn’t know how to and till now I strive never to act. I just went and performed my true self, the pain I had bottled up inside me while growing up as a kid in Kashmir, and everything that I had shared while writing of this film, which came instrumental while performing later. No matter how much acclaim it has won me over the years I’ll always remember it for the sheer hard work and perseverance I had put in for the role and what all it ended up teaching me as an actor. I’ll always be thankful for the life lessons this film taught me, and to all of you for all your love over the years

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Ask him who he loves to see on screen and why, and he says, “I loved Shahid Kapoor in Kabir Singh and Farhan Akhtar in Bhaag Mikha Bhaag, they both were great. I think I can be amazing in such roles too. I am dying to do an action film or a sports film. It would suit me a lot.”

Muzamil says that acting has always come very naturally to him. “Everything in India is about films and cricket. Somehow you don’t need a reason to get connected to them, you just are organically. I didn’t learn acting from anywhere, I don’t think you can learn it. No one can teach you how to act, they can only guide you with the do’s and don’ts,” he says.

He adds, “I love everything about being an actor. I love the fact you can touch so many lives. The love people shower on you without even knowing you personally. There are cons to it too, it’s the hardest profession in the world and if you are not a star kid, the struggle is real. It’s not for the faint-hearted.”

(Source: IANS)