C H I T C HAT
Cine begin :
Aleeze Nasser off to a flying
start
W
ithin days of its release, the trailer of Yalghaar
got cinemagoers craning their necks to get a
closer look at the action-set pieces and starstudded cast, which includes some of the industry’s
most recognised faces. Starring alongside the likes of
Humayun Saeed, Shaan Shahid, Adnan Siddiqui and
Ayesha Omar is newcomer Aleeze Nasser, who has
piqued curiosity being a new face amid a host of industry stalwarts. The half-Turkish, half-Pakistani actor told
BOOM it was only through a chance encounter that she
ran into Yalghaar director Hassan Waqas Rana, colloquially known as Doc, who asked her to star in his directorial debut.“I was in Dubai working on an advertisement
for a telecommunication service when I met Doc and he
told me about how Pakistani cinema was experiencing
a revival, and that he wanted me to be part of the cast
for Delta Echo Foxtrot [later changed to Yalghaar],” she
said in a chat over the phone from Dubai. A trained ac-
tor from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles,
Aleeze had close to no knowledge about the Pakistani
film industry. It was on Hassan’s insistence that she saw
his debut production Waar. “I hadn’t seen many Pakistani films, but when I saw Waar, I liked it and decided to
come on board for the project.” Having seen some iconic
Pakistani television plays during childhood,
Aleeze likened the chemistry between Adnan Siddiqui and her characters in Yalghaar
to “old-school romance.” Elaborating on her
role in the film, she stated, “I play an army
man’s wife and the film shows how the relationship between these two individuals
progresses. They have a unique affection
for each other and their relationship gets
complicated due to the nature of the husband’s job.” The last movie Hassan wrote
was Waar, which was mainly an action flick
with a low romance quotient. Aleeze feels
the audiences will now get to enjoy her romantic equation with Adnan in Yalghaar.
While the male members of the cast had to
go through a boot-camp experience to train
for the film, Aleeze had to brush up on her
Urdu. “I can speak Urdu but Doc asked me
to read a little poetry, such as that of Mir
Taqi Mir, for the role,” she shared. Even with
her career yet to officially take off, Aleeze
has already managed to capture the attention of a handful of producers. The actor is
slated to play an integral character in Waar
2, besides starring in serials on a local TV
channel. “In Waar 2, audiences are going
to see me in a completely different avatar,
as it