Reason why actor Ayub Khan prefers TV over films

Kuber Malhotra is a business magnate, egoistic, shrewd and with shades of grey. With a father-son conflict and separated lovers at the core of the storyline, Phir Bhi Na Maane…Badtameez Dil also has an album of 16 original tracks sung by Darshan Raval, runner-up of reality show India’s Raw Star, to its credit.

“Most of the times, one is offered a character that may be alive for, say, 20 episodes. It is in this limited time that one has to make enough impact for the audience to get glued to him and force the writers and directors to keep the character on,” says Khan. In Ek Hasina Thi, for instance, he had to match the charismatic, dominating personality of Simone Singh, who plays his wife Sakshi Goenka. “As her husband, Rajnath Goenka, I was written as a cowering man, but I took the risk of playing him with a little agression. It interested the writers and my role continued,” says the actor.