Veteran actor Waseem Abbas finds Bilal Abbas overacting in Ishq Murshid

Waseem Abbas seems to have found out Bilal Abbas overacting in the Hum TV drama Ishq Murshid!

Veteran actor Waseem Abbas shared his candid thoughts in a recent conversation with host Mukarram Kaleem.

Abbas recently shared his two cents on Bilal Abbas’s performance in the hit drama serial Ishq Murshid when the host brought up the question and also strongly advised him to refrain from “overdoing” the role.

Waseem Abbas said, “I would say that the drama has the prayers of a murshid (religious guide). Honestly, the episode I have watched that we are going to discuss now…Farooq Rind is a very big director, a big name who has made incredible TV plays.”

Waseem Abbas also shared that Ishq Murshid’s director has baffled him by prioritising narrative over reality.

He said, “I can’t get that a decent-looking man who looks educated gave a room to a stranger guy, and his young daughter goes to the rooftop and indulges in romantic conversations with that guy for long hours. It is quite an impossible and unacceptable thing in this society.”

He went on to share his two cents on a sort of review of the drama as inconsistent logic underlying this portrayal, (he meant the meeting of the lead characters), saying, “It’s not in a room, no. They choose a place in the open where if they were to get caught, there would be no room for excuses.”

Sharing his views on Bilal Abbas’s acting, Waseem said, “At certain points, Bilal Abbas overacts,” before describing a scene from the drama where he insists the former’s acting is excessively done and fails to match the conversation’s tone.

He went on to add, “The play has amassed a billion views. He is a very handsome actor, he’s done a lot of good work, a very capable actor, no doubt about that but he’s overplaying his character [in Ishq Murshid].”

While expressing his views on widely adored on-screen chemistry between Bilal Abbas and his co-star Durefishan Saleem, Waseem Abbas said, “I think people are hooked on the romantic scenes between the two. They both look very nice romancing each other,” he maintained.

Adding his theory as to why the series became popular, Waseem Abbas was of the view that the drama’s romance was ‘covering’ a lot of its faults.

He concluded it by saying that Bilal Abbas should be thankful that the Original Sound Track (OST) ‘Tera Mera Hai Pyar Amar’ took the drama to another level because it was the song that made the drama hit, and the strength of the drama is their romantic chemistry.