Did you know?: Ali doesn’t regret choosing Bobby Jasoos over Homeland

He had to let go off Homeland because he he had already committed his dates for Khamoshiyan.


Ians July 01, 2014

Actor Ali Fazal doesn’t regret choosing Bollywood projects over American TV series Homeland.

He had to let go off Homeland because he he had already committed his dates for Khamoshiyan, a joint production project of Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt and his forthcoming film Bobby Jasoos, in which he will be seen with Vidya Balan.

“I was approached for Homeland, and it was a great opportunity. But when they asked me for my dates, those were given to Mukesh sir’s film and my promotions for Bobby Jasoos. Thus, there was no question of any talks because these films were important,” said Fazal, who has previously been seen in films like 3 Idiots and Fukrey.

The makers of Homeland wanted Ali to fly down to the US in the first week of July for the workshop and the shoot was set to start soon after.

In the last three years, Homeland has become one of the most popular TV series across the globe. So far, it has won five Golden Globe Awards and 10 Emmys.

Ali will be seen in the forthcoming edition of the Fast and The Furious series, which will release next year. 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 2nd, 2014.

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COMMENTS (4)

Strategic Asset | 9 years ago | Reply

You are right, but Homeland has a tight cast of only perhaps 2 or 3 recurring characters: Carrie Mathison, Saul Berenson, Nicholas Brody (hanged to death last season, so not coming back) and maybe Peter Quinn. All the rest including Brody's family play supporting roles and do not appear in every episode.

Since we do not know exactly what role Ali Faizal was going to portray, one really cannot say with any certainty whether it was a small or a big part. However if the past is any indication, most of the ethnic actors were on the opposite side with one person playing the antagonist such as Abu Nazir from Season 3. The only notable exception was the female Iranian CIA agent who got some airtime last season. Thus we can say that if Ali Faizal wasn't portraying a character of a CIA agent as a balance to the antagonist, then his role would have been as a henchman for the opposite side in which case his role would have lasted only a few minutes at most.

Tani | 9 years ago | Reply @spock indian Americans are portrayed as studious brainy geeks,engineers,doctors,scientist or high net worth earning people there like bang bang theory raj and all.. Indians are highest earning community in america they don't get stereotyped as whole for being taxi drivers or others but as geeks who win spelling bee or something that's education related.
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