Asim Azhar and Haroon Shahid starring in web series
Web series are indeed the flavour of the season. Every other actor, writer and director are either working or starting work on a web show. And they seem to be getting offers from the best streaming portals in the business — be it scriptwriter Umera Ahmad’s crime thrillers for Netflix, or director Mehreen Jabbar’s ‘Aik Jhooti Love Story’ for Zee5.
Early this year, we saw ‘Karachi Se Lahore’-famed Wajahat Rauf come out with a limited edition of Mehwish Hayat-starrer ‘Enaaya’ for Eros Now.
More recently, critically-acclaimed director of ‘Cake’ Asim Abbasi finished filming his untitled web series. And now we hear that musicians-turned-actors Asim Azhar and Haroon Shahid are part of a web series that also stars Syra Shehroze. Titled ‘Meray Yaar Meray Dost’, the series is said to be a musical, and the three actors apparently play members of a pop band.
They are joined by a string of newcomers such as Mirza Bilal, a fitness-trainer-turned-model.
‘MYMD’ is directed by Murtaza Chaudhary who is best known for comedy shows like BNN. Chaudhary has previously worked with Bilal on a couple of TV shows also.