Mehwish, Fahad feel the spark
Mehwish Hayat and Fahad Mustafa talk about navigating the tricky terrain of love and marriage in the Pakistani social satire ‘Load Wedding’, out in the UAE tomorrow
Mehwish Hayat, as well as the producerdirector duo of Nabeel Qureshi and Fizza Ali Meerza, have so far had a spotless record in films — no flops, only blockbuster hits.
Actor Fahad Mustafa, too, has had it going smooth largely — a non-starter Mah-e-Mir notwithstanding. In fact, given the kind of cult following he enjoys, it isn’t hard to believe why he should be completely unfazed by the failure of a random project.
This Eid Al Adha, all these successful Pakistani stars are coming together on a project, cleverly titled Load Wedding.
Cleverly, because weddings have always made popular cinema in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, be it in terms of songs or elaborate sequences, they bring in family audiences. In a chat with tabloid!, Qureshi, Hayat and Mustafa talk about the pressures of living up to the huge expectations, with a film that is set in a small Punjabi neighbourhood and which shines some relevant light on social issues faced by the lady health workers in Pakistan.
The film promises a bunch of strong characters culled from everyday life. Of course, if the promos are anything to go by, all this is packaged in a sweet and simple love story, with some foot-tapping music. Check out the song Good Luck and you’ll know what we mean.
Excerpts from the interview follow: