Abu Dhabi, November seventeen : All of twenty three, Amna Ilyas is tall, dusky and oozes the arrogance that it takes to catwalk on the ramps of the emergent however booming scene of Pakistan’s apparel industry. Having tasted filmdom with “Zinda Bhaag”, she is currently hopeful of clinching a lot of film offers. From India? Why not?
“I am thinking of quitting modelling and focusing on acting,” Amna told in an interview throughout the national capital fete.
“A heap of films are being created in Islamic Republic of Pakistan at once and that we are terribly happy that. they’re not massive budget films, however little ones, that are nice. I presently have 2 scripts,” said the player, who plays the feminine lead in “Zinda Bhaag”, the primary movie that her nation has sent for Oscar thought within the last fifty years.
“Zinda Bhaag”, that is popping intent on be a commercially profitable venture for producer Mazhar Zaidi and co-directors Meenu Bibos gaurus and Farjad Nabi, is presently doing the rounds at film festivals.
After being showcased at the seventh national capital fete last month, it absolutely was screened at the urban center International fete Sat – and it’s beginning to be a beacon of hope for Pakistan’s industry, that had folded round the Nineteen Nineties.
Is she observing offers from Bollywood?
“See… hopes area unit there from Hollywood in addition, it’ll be nice, but yes, Bharat is within sight and that we look it as a giant trade,” aforesaid Amna.
Amna, who is however to go to Bharat, hopes to visit the country’s recreation hub city to scout for work. She additionally needs to flaunt creations by Bollywood’s beloved designer Manish Malhotra.
Karachi-based Amna walks and talks with the panache and boldness of a seasoned talent.
Well, seasoned she is! She has been at the highest of Pakistan’s fashion scene once she started her stint in modelling 5 years agone. She has worked with a number of the top-rated designers of her country – couturiers like Umar Sayeed, Rizwan Beyg and Fahad Hussayn, to call a few.
Her family has been remarkably confirmatory and “chilled out” during a community that is usually conservative – and Amna cannot be a lot of thankful about that. Things are dynamic currently for several, says the wonder, whose elder sisters are former models.
“Being a model in Islamic Republic of Pakistan is nice. Fashion is on a boom at once. we tend to had our initial fashion week in 2007 and since then, a series of fashion events are happening. plenty of latest designers and models are springing up.
“Because of the very fact that we’ve a little of a conservative surroundings, plenty of women weren’t able to do what they wished to. However currently things are dynamic in Islamic Republic of Pakistan and other people have become a lot of fashionable and direct.
“They need to alter – and by that I mean, they require to maneuver with the globe. So, there are currently plenty of individuals like me who are becoming an opportunity to figure abroad and travel,” said Amna.