“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.