Ahad Raza Mir on returning to Calgary to play Hamlet

Since Ahad Raza Mir returned to Pakistan from Canada approximately three years ago, there has been no looking back. He has been riding high on success, starting from TV drama serial Sammi in which he made a cameo to Yakeen Ka Safar with which he won millions of hearts and also bagged an award. Presently essaying one of the protagonists, Jameel, in Mohammad Ehteshamuddin’s period drama Aangan, Ahad recently returned to Calgary to take the titular role of Hamlet in Vertigo Theatre’s Hamlet: A Ghost Story.“It’s really nice because you leave one place and you think that place will forget you but they didn’t,” Ahad shared in an interview with Global News Morning Calgary. “I was called back to play a lot of roles I wanted to take on, but couldn’t, and the calls would keep coming. That means that I still have a home here. People think of me enough to go, ‘Hey, let’s give him a call and see if he wants to play a role. This time, for Hamlet, it worked.”Ahad brings a vast theatre experience with him before he stepped into Pakistan’s entertainment industry. “I think me coming back is less professional and more personal,” he added. “I wanted to return to the stage, I haven’t been on it in so long.”Hamlet has been performed multiple times onstage with different interpretations since it was originally produced in 1602. Speaking of essaying the role of a significant character with historical ties, Ahad said, “I’m figuring it out as the process goes and I probably won’t figure it out until halfway through the show. Our adaptation is unique because we’re playing with a horror element.”

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