A few hours back, it was announced that the Pakistani show, Zindagi Gulzar Hai, is returning to Indian TV. As the makers posted a video on Zindagi channel’s official Insta page, fans roared with excitement and flooded the internet with “rewatching” comments.
The Pakistani romantic drama, which featured Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed in the lead, is considered to be one of the most loved shows on TV, that aired from 2012 to 2013.
But as much as the series won the hearts of many, the shooting of the show wasn’t quite as cheery for actor Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui.
In a recent interview, Sheheryar, who played Osama in the show, spoke about having a hard time on the set. Sharing his terrible experience, he said, “I would struggle a lot with the actors around me. Rightfully so, it was also unfair to them that a new person was working with them. That whole experience wasn’t great to me.”
He said that he couldn’t sit through two minutes of watching it. “I just want to bang my head watching it,” the actor told Desi TV, adding that the actors would receive the scripts just minutes before the shoot and therefore, there was no time to work on the characters or the back story.
Sheheryar also confessed that Fawad Khan was “pretty tough” on him. “Fawad was just out of Humsafar, and he may have felt the director-producer’s nephew is here. He gave me quite a tough time. It was a different kind, not the bullying we see on television. But yes he was tough on me, and now that I think of it, the entire period.. the fear of being there on set, it was quite a difficult time for me,” he said.
Zindagi Gulzar Hai was directed by Sultana Siddiqui and originally aired on Hum TV. Starting May 23, the show will now be available on Tata Play, Dish TV and D2H
