Zeeshan Ayyub makes a big revelation; says his roles have been reduced in certain films

Actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, who is basking in the success of his latest web series ‘Scoop’, has revealed in an interview that on several occasions, his roles have been reduced in films because it was felt that he was overpowering his more popular co-stars.

Speaking with Siddharth Kannan, Zeeshan shared that many times, he was assured that he’d get an individual poster for himself, but that hasn’t happened.

Zeeshan is currently negotiating with the producers of an upcoming project to give him a ‘special appearance’ credit because they’ve completely butchered his role. ‘You’ll know it when you see it, you’ll wonder how I could have agreed to this project,’ he said.

When told what actor Arshad Warsi recently said about insecure stars getting his lines edited because they felt he was going to steal the scene, Zeeshan admitted that this had happened to him as well.

‘This has happened to me, it has happened often, and it has happened majorly. It’s in the past, but I’ve had to deal with it. So often, in rehearsals, they can tell if I’m running away with the scene, and when you see the script the next day, the entire character graph has been changed,’ he said.

He continued, ‘Sometimes, you get this shock after the edit, when you’re watching the film at a screening. And you realise that scenes have been cut, the camera is no longer on you, the movie cuts to the next scene where you had a good line. This has happened a lot, and on some level, I’ve gotten used to it. But yes, it feels equally bad each time.’

However, Zeeshan has no complaints because even if his films have been trashed, he has always been singled out for giving a good performance, and for that, he is grateful.

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