{"id":23987,"date":"2011-12-21T03:18:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=23987"},"modified":"2011-12-23T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:02:15","slug":"express-tribune-rashid-sami-the-common-mans-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2011\/12\/21\/express-tribune-rashid-sami-the-common-mans-director\/","title":{"rendered":"[Express Tribune] Rashid Sami: The common man\u2019s director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saadia Qamar<\/strong><\/p>\n

KARACHI:\u00a0<\/strong>Ask anyone about the\u00a0good old days of\u00a0<\/a>Network Television Marketing<\/a>\u00a0(NTM)\u00a0<\/em>and they\u2019ll surely remember the soap opera \u201cJaal\u201d and its villainous character Dr Farooq. But the man behind Dr Farooq\u2019s larger-than-life character is Rashid Sami \u2014 an actor, director and producer who has been involved in a range of versatile ventures for a long while.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While \u201cJaal\u201d served to be his groundbreaking acting debut, directing \u201cThe Sunday Brunch\u201d for\u00a0PTV<\/em>\u00a0proved to be another unforgettable milestone in his career as it was the first time the process of non-linear editing was used in a Pakistani production. Sami claims, \u201cBoth were landmarks in the history of Pakistani television and I am glad I was directly involved with both projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sami, an engineer by profession, recalls, \u201cAlthough my real passion was always performing arts, it was on my family\u2019s insistence that I opted for a degree in engineering. But nothing could take away my love for acting, direction or production.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Currently, he is busy producing a play for the\u00a0Express Entertainment<\/em>channel called \u201cRok Lo Aj Ki Raat\u201d. Regarding the experience, Sami says, \u201cMy mother is originally from Baltistan which is why I always wanted to do something regarding this region.\u201d The drama is based on the concept of the trout fish, which is born in the lake up north, goes south for a living. It returns to its place of origin, lays eggs there and dies. Similarly, the story of the play focuses on the life of a girl born in Baltistan, who moves to Karachi to live with her adopted parents, but eventually goes back home to die.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI have the passion for creativity, which is fragile, like a human soul,\u201d adds Sami. \u201cA good play, narrated in a literary language like Urdu, brings out its colourful facets and always keeps me inspired.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to make his dramas more realistic and to understand the deeper meaning of life, Sami says, \u201cI would travel in buses, amongst the sight, sounds and often smells. I would sit for hours at a railway platform to observe how people travelled. That\u2019s how I got a first-hand idea of the pickpockets, eavesdroppers and the way the general public lives and their numerous issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the state of today\u2019s drama making Sammi states, \u201cThese days, it\u2019s a sad combination of really good writers working with a set of poor directors. What we require is an influx of new talent to produce an overall better quality of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking about his future plans, Sami plans to relocate his Kohinoor Studio, based in Korangi, to a locality in Karachi\u2019s Defence area. But most of all, Sami wants to venture in films, and not restrict himself to working on TV only.<\/p>\n

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21st<\/sup>, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saadia Qamar KARACHI:\u00a0Ask anyone about the\u00a0good old days of\u00a0Network Television Marketing\u00a0(NTM)\u00a0and they\u2019ll surely remember the soap opera \u201cJaal\u201d and its villainous character Dr Farooq. But the man behind Dr Farooq\u2019s larger-than-life character is Rashid Sami \u2014 an actor, director and producer who has been involved in a range of versatile ventures for a long while. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,2883,106,2310],"class_list":["post-23987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baltistan","tag-dr-farooq","tag-karachi","tag-man"],"better_featured_image":{"id":23988,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":"640","height":"480","hwstring_small":"height='96' width='128'","file":"2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Rashid-Sami-150x150.jpg","width":"150","height":"150","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Rashid-Sami-300x225.jpg","width":"300","height":"225","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"Rashid-Sami-50x50.jpg","width":"50","height":"50","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami-50x50.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Rashid-Sami-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami-415x260.jpg"},"150x150":{"file":"Rashid-Sami-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami-150x150.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}},"post":23987,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rashid-Sami.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24045,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions\/24045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}