Mehwish Hayat is a remarkable Pakistani television and film actress who is currently garnering praise for her hit Geo TV drama serial Dayan, which is getting high TRPs and views. Recently, Mehwish Hayat appeared in Fuchsia Magazine’s YouTube show, hosted by Rabia Mughni. In the show, Mehwish Hayat talked in detail about her popular drama serial Dayan.
Talking about Dayan, Mehwish Hayat said, “Playing Nihal was quite challenging for me because of the abusive environment Nihal was living in. It had an emotional toll on me even when I used to be back from the shooting. I remember I constantly had a sad face during Dayan’s shooting.”
Talking about how she got the drama, Mehwish said, “I met Abdullah Kadwani during the travelling when he asked me if I am interested in television or not, and I replied to him that I am waiting for a good script. He then messaged me and called me in a meeting where I met Siraj and the whole team, and when they narrated Dayan’s story, I knew I was going to do it because it was scary, it was challenging and quite interesting for me and it had so many layers to the character.”
Talking about how difficult the grave scene was, Mehwish Hayat said, “I am a very careful person. I make sure things go according to my comfort. I was the person who was reluctant to shoot in the real graveyard because various things are attached to it. We should not film out of respect, and I was the person who usually don’t visit graveyards, so we created it. But despite being shot at a fake location, it was difficult because the grave was for real, in which I was laying. That too, all the pests were there in the mud. It was scary.”
Talking about Nihal and Meesha’s get ups, Mehwish Hayat says, “The main challenge was to show Meesha different from Nihal, so we showed Nihal de-glammed, simple, and an introvert person. We were considering many things like prosthetics, but we were also aware of the limitations because we had to shoot it for months, and making a mark or adding a feature won’t be same for the 8-year. It was not practical. We consider weather conditions, production, and practicalities under mind. We took creative liberty here. I will give credit to my makeup artist. We kept Nihal raw, her face is round; we kept Meesha sculptured. There are subtle nuances that made her a bit different, and then we took creative liberty. I am very happy with Dayan. Although we tried to make it different, we knew that the backlash would come.”
She further said that according to the script they didn’t have choice for the character to be played by two different actors, it had to be one actress playing Nihal & Meesha both.
Mehwish Hayat also said that she is getting a great response from fans who are hooked to Dayan. She further added that fans chant ‘Dayan’ ‘Dayan’ whenever she is out. Here is what she said: