By Aqifa Ameen
Yasir Hussain is a brilliant Pakistani host, actor, writer and director. His notable projects are films like Lahore Se Aagay and Karachi Se Lahore. Kukri is his critically acclaimed film. Yasir Hussain has also done hosting in Hum Tv’s The After Moon Show. Yasir Hussain is happily married to Iqra Aziz and they have a cute son Kabir Hussain.
Recently, Yasir Hussain appeared in Good Morning Pakistan. He shared his personal details for the first time. The actor also revealed his education. He said that he started acting at an early age. Yasir Hussain said, “I did a theater play at the age of sixteen. I left the studies after F.A. However, I tried to do a bachelor degree but I failed in the two subjects”. He further revealed that they are twelve siblings in total and he’s the youngest one at home. He said that all his siblings are well-settled in their lives, he also said that his family never forced anything on him. He revealed that he started theater acting with Shah Sharabeel’s play. He then started television as a VJ.
Talking about his first character, he said that he did a role of a suicide bomber at Bori Bazar where he acted as a real suicide bomber and got beaten up by the real police after which he fetched a very small role. He said, “after my scene, the audio man spotted me and sent me to Mr Muhammad Ahmed, who was writing a play Dareecha, he didn’t want to give me the character of a servant because he had seen my theater performance but I insisted and got the role, it was quite a short role”. He said that he got that character because Ayaz Samo didn’t do it.
