TELEPLAY (Early Bird) REVIEW: BEHADD (HUM Tv)
First Published in Daily Times (Pakistan) / 08 June 2013 Congratulations Asim Raza on winning the 2014 Hum Award for best Teleplay Asim Raza (Director Behadd) The lights dim, and a warning is issued. There will be no gloss in Asim Raza’s presentation. The audience braces itself. This is not a film per se, Asim clarifies, adding that “ a long play with substance will be at par with a telefilm .” The audience relaxes. The directorial debut of Raza’s latest venture took place at the newly opened Cinepax, Ocean Mall (Karachi) towards the end of May. Behadd (Unlimited), which will be aired on Saturday, June 8, 2013 on HUM TV, is a nuanced family drama that mines a (single) mother-(spoiled) daughter relationship for spectacle. Raza, hailed as an ace commercial/music video director, did it in a short span of time, with his small support system and a lot of help from friends. For him this was a challenge taken on to counter the flurry of insinuations hurled his way of propping up ...