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Mumbai, Jan 17 (Ians) Model and actor Umar Sharif plays a pivotal role in ‘Kuttey’. The actor spoke about his role and shared his working experience with the co-actors.

He said: “I play the character of Javed Mufti who is the local gun maker. He has 2 elder brothers and their kattas are caught in the crossfire, due to which they are nabbed by the police, but in order to escape captivity, they give away the plan of robbing an Atm cash van of Rs 4 crore as a barter for their release.”

His big break came in the form of ‘Ye Hai India Meri Jaan’ with veteran director Saeed Mirza in 2013. In 2014, Umar signed his first feature film, ‘Khamoshiyaan’. From then on, his journey continued with doing shows like ‘Pyar ka Dard’, ‘Ishq Kills’ and episodic programmes like ‘Savdhaan India’ and ‘Gumrah’.

He continued his association with theatre. Umar bagged his first...

Model and actor Umar Sharif plays a pivotal role in ‘Kuttey’. The actor spoke about his role and shared his working experience with the co-actors. He said: “I play the character of Javed Mufti who is the local gun maker. He has 2 elder brothers and their kattas are caught in the crossfire, due to which they are nabbed by the police, but in order to escape captivity, they give away the plan of robbing an Atm cash van of Rs 4 crore as a barter for their release.”

His big break came in the form of ‘Ye Hai India Meri Jaan’ with veteran director Saeed Mirza in 2013. In 2014, Umar signed his first feature film, ‘Khamoshiyaan’. From then on, his journey continued with doing shows like ‘Pyar ka Dard’, ‘Ishq Kills’ and episodic programmes like ‘Savdhaan India’ and ‘Gumrah’.

He continued his association with theatre. Umar bagged his first web series ‘Avrodh...

Suni Pal, the comedian who won the first season of ‘The Great India Laughter Challenge’, where Raju Srivastava was the first runner-up, said his late friend was justifiably called the ‘King of Comedy’.

Pal, who over the past 43 days, often asked admirers of the late comedian to stay positive and pray for his recovery, was in tears when he said: “He was fighting a battle for the past 40 days and never thought even in my dreams that he would leave us like this.

“I had wished this day would never come. It’s painful news for his family and everyone close to him. Even now I wish a miracle happens and he comes back.”

On August 25, in fact, Pal had informed his fans that the late comedian had regained consciousness, but that glimmer of hope turned out to be shortlived.

Islamabad, Pakistani artistes Thursday condemned the harassment of comedian Shakeel Siddiqi during the recording of a comedy show in Mumbai. "Performing art people are very sensitive and such kind of treatment in India raises many questions and is very unfortunate," Pakistan's leading comedian Umer Sharif told Ians.Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (Mns) activists Wednesday entered a studio where Siddiqi was shooting for the comedy show "Comedy Circus" and told him to leave for Pakistan. Mns, led by Raj Thackeray, became notorious last year for violence against people who had come from other parts of India to Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital."I believe he would have gone to India after government's permission and making his trip public through ...