Karachi:
You don’t have to have a particularly vibrant fantasy to imagine the pressure that a teenager actor faces in a world of unfiltered social media that pigsgizing itself to a reckless commentary section. However, if you are even missing the ignorant fantasy required to come to this realization on your own, 16-year-old actor Aina Asif is here to confirm that the throbbing pressure is actually real-year supported with support, passion and an ounce of common sense, it is completely surviving.
To take pain to illustrate the unique experience of a gen the z -teenager that blooms in the public eye, the young Parwarish The star could not stress enough in a BBC Urdu Interview that viewers are still struggling to understand her real age. “No matter how I dress, no matter how I act, people know that I am 16!” She began. “Everyone knows this, and yet they say, ‘But you don’t look like a child!’ But whatever I look like I still have the mind for a 16-year-old! ”
Becomes Mayan
Aina’s acting career began at the sore age of 14 years when she played a teenagered mother in Mayi riAlthough her current allegation of fame plays head-over-heels-in-love Maya in Parwarish. Fans will remember that Maya convinces her (deeply concerned) mother that her Beau of Choice, Wali, is in her ‘fighting phase’ and will soon roll wealth after he embarks on his impending career in music.
“Maya is close to her mother and has room to vent and share her feelings – something she can’t do with her father,” Aina noted.
Whatever the manuscript, Maya puts through (“Maya is forced into marriage and I can’t even imagine myself in such a situation!”) It’s nothing new to the girl who brings her to life. Like someone who has grown up in a loving, supportive family. Environment, the closeness that Maya shares with her mother, is one who felt to Aina like home.
“I found it so relatable to play Maya because I can also tell my mother something,” Aina explained. “I feel like Maya has a canvas where she can express her feelings, which is very necessary for a growing child.”
Relatable roles
Of course, not all of her roles have been just as easy to relate to the new young actor. If Aina found it difficult to stomach that played a young girl who was forced into marriage and inhabiting the skin of a teen -mother, aini, in Mayi ri was one, she found even more stranger.
“When I was filming Mayi riI still learned. I was 15 – no, 14! “Remember Aina. – She cried every time. Then I turned to the camera because I was so flusted! I was like ‘I’m a kid too, how should I handle this?’ “
So overwhelmed was Aina that she would seek comfort from instructor Meesam Naqvi (which has also instructed Parwarish) and praying, “Should I just give her my phone for two minutes?” Two years on the line Aina has not forgotten her director’s next word.
“He would say, ‘No, Aina, if you are so frustrated, remember that you want to go home at.
The recognition that other girls endure in real life what she struggled to produce on screen turned out to be a humiliating lesson for Aina.
“It really hit me that I, Aina, with the family from whom I come, is very different from the characters I play,” the star pointed out. “I mean, I can’t even imagine that my mom or dad would come and tell me – and this age, especially – that they have found a rishta for me. So to understand that evil, that pain was a little difficult for me, but when it first hit me, it hit me hard.”
The effect of Aini’s story, and what it represents is not lost on Aina. “Even today, when I think of Aini, I get tearful,” she confessed. “Because what happened to her was so unfair.”
Find fame at. 14
In addition to having the opportunity to look into how the other half lives as it was, Aina is well aware of the cost of having a very public career at her age. If she had her own opinion, she would reduce working hours for actors, but so far she has set her own boundaries (“I don’t have revealing clothes and I don’t like intimate scenes”). Throughout it all, she still feels urgently pressured to find fame at 2pm.
“You have to enforce a specific track or mindset on yourself,” she insisted. “I have to make sure I am not affected by some things. As for criticism – there are some parts that I need to understand, but these are the people who will help you come where you need to go. You need to know who to listen to and who you can ignore.”
Of course, social media is another ball game. Again, Aina has been forced to learn to block hurtful comments – mainly about her looks – and has trained herself to look the other way.
“It used to affect me so much – to the point where if I read something negative about me, it would ruin all night,” she admitted. “I would start crying. Now – I’m still affected, I’m not entirely immune, but I’m not trying to think so much about them.”
Aina, however, has some eligible words for those who insist on commenting on her appearance or comparing her unfriendly to cartoon characters online – something she assures viewers of having happened.
“I don’t think anyone should comment on the way someone looks. If you don’t like anyone, don’t see them!” she said. “I can remember once I saw this post where someone compared me to a cartoon character […] I only knew later that they meant it as an insult! “
The actor then did what she should have avoided: She dived into the comments section. “Everyone made fun of me! It affected me – but then I felt sad that people do not see the craft. My career is about acting. They do not consider that I am a child. These things obviously hurt!”
Aina’s eye -opening foray in the world of social media has led to a decision that there are parts of herself that she will never reveal to fans and supporters. “There are certain parts of my life that are just mine that no one has been able to comment,” she insisted. “If people also start criticizing it, I would lose myself.”
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