“I have a vision for our film industry, which is that it should break free of its shackles”
– Shaan

By Usman Ghafoor

It wasn’t John Abraham of Bollywood. Quite interestingly, Shaan became the first mainstream film actor in the subcontinent to strip before the camera — remember the detention sequences in Khuda Kay Liye? New York’s John and the upcoming Jail’s Neil Nitin Mukesh in a nude shot have all followed much later.

Bait him with that and Shaan near blushes. “Hey, it wasn’t me,” he chortles. “It was Mansoor Khan. By the way, I don’t carry my characters home.” He doesn’t. For someone who jumps from set to set and juggles a slew of films, it wouldn’t be humanly possible.

What if…

Instep plays a guessing game this week, looking at how things could turn out very differently in fashion, film and music…

What if
…Sehyr Saigol and Maheen Khan patched up?

Another thunder and lightening moment that would be, the announcement of which would most certainly begin with drum rolls! It’s no secret that Pakistan fashion was on the steady path of forming one united fashion council until these two had a major fall out. Call it clash of the titans, if you may. But their getting back on one platform would mean fashion actually getting a platform. The Boulevard would stock the best of both cities and the new talent at Karachi Fashion Week would be selected on merit as opposed to who the city government wants to promote this year. Lahore would lend Karachi some of its business sense and altogether better manners, whereas Karachi would in turn send Lahore some better style. This is not to say it isn’t already happening, but just because of some ego clashes, it isn’t happening with the force it should have.