fine
fine how are you nice to see you i am
fine thank you very much for your time
a very happy mubarak in fact i would say
happiness
i'll wish you mubarak in your language
Eywallah well i'm saying to also to pakistan
thank you very much thanks and of course
we have all of you
thank you very much thank you and of
course we have with us uh
one of the renowned sportsmen uh in the
history of sports
the one and the only the living legend
of pakistan
a very happy
okay so thank you very much both of you
guys for your time
Cengiz of course we want to talk about
the
most renowned drama serial of the
current era
but we'll talk about it in a bit
millions of people in pakistan want to
know about your personal life you know i
i had questions about people asking
about
your your religion of course that's a
very personal matter but since the drama
relates to islamic history and all
and what not so i know you are a muslim
so
born in turkey yeah yeah i born in
turkey i born in istanbul
are you married not yet
oh so can i say that is a good news for
your female fans
[Laughter]
no no no
no no no so the one the one lucky girl
whom you have
you are going to marry you have already
decided so you're already committed
am i right yeah i have i have i have
somebody in my life
from long term so
Cengiz you were a professional
sportsman uh
if that's correct yeah i was i was i was
play basketball ten years i was playing
basketball
i think three years i was playing
professional
then after i endured then
then i start modeling
then i'm start acting and
and i'm here front of you guys
you're a superstar here everyone knows
you everyone loves you
so when are you visiting pakistan now
jengas
i will i would like to visit pakistan
after
after everybody is safe because you know
already you know all around the world
has a pandemic
moment insha'allah hopefully hopefully
soon inshallah inshallah very soon
inshallah
and you have any plans to work in
pakistani drama or
pakistani film
yes why not first of all it's important
you know
uh this story i have to see myself
in the story and i have to see that
character fit on me
if it's gonna make me excited
why not it can be of course i would like
to be
in some pakistani drama and show why not
so shy first of all my masumana sawaal
my innocent question to you is
Cengiz was once a sportsman now renowned
actor of the world
uh you are a sportsman so do you have
any plans to
jump into the field of acting no no
chance
it's not my domain and i don't know how
to act but
so tv commercial i do sometime you know
but it's not an easy job at
all okay i'll tell you one
thing i want to tell i want to say this
to
lala yeah
when i will come to pakistan
i want to ma i want to teach me
from lala
to teach me that cricket i would like to
play that
maybe why not first
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i want to invite you to pakistan and i
will be your host
and i will teach you cricket you will
teach me
an ex and thanks for that okay
okay video deal done done
so i i heard about i heard about you
like so much of the drama
uh some of my friends were pushing me
hard to watch this drama when i asked
them about how
the numbers of episodes and they told me
500
i was shocked and said are you guys
crazy
and uh i i was because of my schedule i
was very busy
and when i went to bangladesh for the
league matches uh i started watching
uh from there one and a half year
ago uh year back i finished
that drama so in the next
40 days i liked the drama so much that i
shared with my
fans on twitter you watched all the
seasons like in like
in 40 days in 40 days yes
and now i'm watching so i think for
those 40 days you were not doing
anything else you were only watching
drama
you're not even sleeping i guess i am
and my daughters were always saying that
baba you're not giving us attention
so i said beta is addictive you start
watching you will see and now i'm
again watching with them this is great
uh good good have you also watched from
season one
till the last episode this this drama in
one go
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah from the from
the beginning i watched i watched the
tv serial you know the every episode
i'm checking what i did what i didn't do
so i'm looking to myself you know
where i did wrong you know for for for
learning okay let's talk about this x
of course everyone else in the drama was
using a sword uh you were using an axe
because of a very obvious reason that
historically
used to use this this weapon
uh and actually not actually not just
just you know that that's
that's my choice nobody knows you know
the turgot is worth
using the axe that's that's my choice
i said because everybody every every
character must have
different you know the different
specialty
in the in the story that's why i choose
that
and i'm started working on it
because everybody using sword you know
yeah i don't want to you i don't want to
be usual that's why i i want i want to
use the axe
i work so much i train so much with the
axe
so for how giving that is you know the
more pleasure to audience
for how long you have to practice this
almost every day before starting the tv
serial
uh three months every day i
i riding horse every day i was
training with weapons okay so this is
very interesting that it was your choice
you were not asked by the
director of producer because little bit
of history which is available tells us
that
used to use x instead of swatch and it
was called the
heaviest of that time where it was your
choice that is very interesting
so did you hurt yourself any time
during the shoot many times
one yeah one one time i break my elbow
you know
you know everybody knows that you know
i'm throwing the eggs i'm
i'm swinging the eggs then then
one one choreography i'm the the
the throw my ex when
when i want to hold it again from my
back like this
then i couldn't hold it then it's the
fall
for x to on my elbow then i broke it
oh what i didn't talk about very heavy
i
you know it's very heavy yeah because
the
uh yeah kind of a little bit yeah yeah
it's not very very heavy yeah i have
heard that was 1650 grams
x which which was used by three times
what is
the reason why are you in so much love
of this drama and particularly this
character
what is the reason uh all the characters
uh chosen uh have uh uh done justice
uh to their roles uh i would like to
appreciate
angen for his wonderful acting skills uh
with great support of no doubt turgot
bumsi and haima atun and nguyan
drogo drogas were amazing too
and the message was very clear the
message
was why i liked personally
because
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because i personally like that the drama
is that
show how a real muslim should be it
brings out
the message of peace brotherhood justice
and believe in allah very purely
okay so yeah so
lala just spoke about a few characters
so i have a few innocent questions
for you your favorite character of the
drama
my favorite character of drama is
struggle because i love so much
that's why i play the two we all love it
after the word turgot is favorite of me
because nobody
[Music]
many people know him and i i'm really
proud of that because
i think i did great job and the people
people appreciate that and you know do
respect that that's very
important for me okay so you are three
friends so
bamsey and dugan so in real life you are
good friends with uh
bamsi or dugan yes yes we are good
friends we are still keep in touch
all the time we are talking we are
meeting when then we are not busy
and we are keeping touch uh all the time
we are arranged something we are fishing
your favorite part of the drama or
favorite scene of the drama
my favorite scene of the drama i think
i have many but i can tell you this this
land when they torture to me
the the first season
yeah that that study hasn't special you
know the things for me
that that that routines that that
episodes is very
very very hard and very pleasurably for
me
because that was for many that was
uh that was so much
emotionally that time and lala what is
your favorite scene of the whole season
of all the seasons the scene was uh
halima
when she was dying and you know the
acting of
of Ertugul was amazing
and they they make even everyone cry in
my home
anything serious which happened during
the show
yeah it was very serious uh one time
the the Noyan (mongols)
commander and then they then i was
fighting with them
the one mongol or the
uh the soldier when we are
doing the shooting of the choreography
choreography
they are putting me down one guy tried
to
put normally he must put on my neck
to sword but
with excited excitement
he put the sword with that
that moves almost to my eyes
i take my eyes i saw it i feel it and
take it it's
it's you know the make a scarf to hear
i can lose my eyes almost
that was very dangerous yes oh
but thank god you are you are safe
uh alhamdulillah yeah thanks thanks god
thanks a lot
i'm i'm i'm safe out of all the villains
uh in this drama uh which one was your
favorite villain
favorite in the sense that you know you
really liked uh working with them
no no yeah i can't tell you no yeah yeah
okay okay yeah
he was he was a really good actor he
would he he played he played really good
to
knoya yeah that's my idea was one
question which like
one million people have asked me uh i
have a few names
server from lahore and many people have
asked you tessina abdi
so that are you appearing rania reha
and many other people are you appearing
in
this series usman
yes many people ask me this uh
but unfortunately no oh
oh they all are waiting people are
waiting to see you in usman
hmm yeah
breaking news right and okay and
uh lala tell me something uh
because you have told me that uh you
know you have watched all the seasons
with a lot of interest you know you've
asked your daughters to watch it they're
already watching it and loving it
it had an impact on your lifestyle or
since it is just a drama
so you know when the drama ends that's
it
you can learn a lot you know
the thing that i personally like what i
mentioned before
i liked about the drama was that it
showed
how a real muslim should be and idea of
justice
peace brotherhood and most important
thing is believe in allah
was bought
there should be a joint collaboration
between pakistan and turkey for these
kind of series and like which may
include
historical facts about pakistan like
this one uh
also dealt with islamic history
i believe that sports and entertainment
uh bring nations together
so to make uh past tour uh relation
uh better we have to uh work together in
such platforms
uh so that our friend uh friendship
become an example
it had any impact on your personal life
or again you are just an actor this is
just a drama
so once the set finishes when the shoot
ends
then you're a different person actually
didn't change my life because i'm like
this you know
i told you i am believer i believe in
god i'm i'm alhamdulillah muslim i'm
turks so
it's about us this is about our story i
feel myself in this story
i'm starting and i'm acting and
so i'm professional right yeah
like the reason of asking this question
was that you know people have so much
not only seen this drama but they have
felt this drama that you know people
were kind of shocked
uh when they saw esra in a different
attire on instagram you know they were
shocked because they perceived it so
much close to reality
that i that i think they conveniently
forgot the fact that
she was an actor who was acting in a
particular play but that was the reason
i'm asking the question that you know
people
have perceived it so much close to the
reality that you think that
uh that they think that you guys are
actually like that you know you guys
dress up like that you guys act like
that
in your real life as well yes can you
think like this for example i will ask
you something
and give me an answer for example you
know
i can tell you from the gnoyan from
mongol
he's playing you know the bad guy yeah
he must be bad in his life real life
i think people must thinking like this
that's correct
we are professional actors yeah
just we have to believe our character
and we have to
act how much uh how much
real as possible in pakistan genghis
the prime minister of pakistan himself
tweeted and spoke about the drama
more than once and he literally you know
asked people to
watch this drama after which it became a
massive hit
it became the talk of the town so any
message for the prime minister of
pakistan who actually
advised his people his countrymen to
watch this drama
and now it's everywhere so
thank you imran khan
and to to
forward to people to watch the the tv
serial
like this uh they show us
real you know the story when we start
then when we start this movie
everybody is saying you can't do that
but i believe that and tell me
you ever felt that this drama is going
to be such a massive fit
in pakistan as well because like
i'll just tell you i'll just share with
you something
only in three months the first episode
of this drama
which is dubbed in urdu has 67
million views that's quite a lot 6.7
million views
only of the first episode you ever
thought it will be such a mess event in
pakistan
yeah i was hoping that you know the one
day is gonna be in
our the the islamic countries the muslim
countries they will watch this and
uh is gonna be you know very famous
because
i was think about when i heard about
when
when they start you know the show in the
pakistan i was sure about
they will like it because our friendship
our brother ship it's you know the
coming from you know
many many years ago i was hoping that
but
this is the you know more than what i
expected right
and if i ask you genghis when did you
actually
become aware of your popularity in
pakistan i learned my popularity
in pakistan from instagram ah
yes yes i i i had so much
you know you know
[Music]
so much marriage proposal
[Laughter]
yeah yeah but i'm telling i can't i
can't marry everyone
[Laughter]
okay and are you familiar with anything
about pakistan like
anything in urdu or about any dish of
pakistan
anything you know about pakistan you
would like to share millions of people
are watching
[Music]
i now do the food biryani
i don't know which one is good
you tell me karachi one i belong to
karachi so i'll go for karachi
lala will you second me on that biryani
especially i love it yeah
so uh yeah then i will come the
inshallah
the soon when i will come to pakistan i
will try
the lahore then i will tell you my idea
that's correct we leave it up to you
we are waiting we are waiting okay okay
perfect
towards the end i'll ask a few uh a few
quick questions uh
first of all again this was a question
from many pakistanis uh
your favorite season out of all the
seasons one two three four
i think i can tell you first one and
second one
ah okay right so um
i have a few okay so if you can you know
i'll take a few names this is a question
from you
and lala both okay one word for okay one
word for
so lala starting from you one word for
the
turkish people they are awesome
uh jang is one word for pakistani people
i
i love them and i'm hugging them
one word for shahid afridi is he is
amazing
the drama
i can say one word for
a handsome strong and very good guy
thank you
thank you okay i'll move forward
so nice to meet you likewise
likewise like okay so uh if you have to
choose between these two options genghis
bamsi or dugan i can't tell you this
okay
for me they are you know the same same
level i can't tell that
and if i may ask you many of your fans
have asked me
to ask you that out of the two female
characters which acted as your wife
in the drama and both of them died you
enjoyed working with
the first fan of the second one
first one hikers i can tell you this
[Laughter]
first love is always first so that was
not a tough one
yeah yeah okay you know first first
always you know the best
all right okay so uh it is a true story
or how much close to reality it is
the whole drama the they try to make it
you know
how much is possible they close the
drama to reality you know
because also this is the story this is
the drama this is the
movie so if you make it exactly you know
the real
it's gonna be documentary that's right
yeah yeah so this is not documentary so
also we have
to you know do our imagine
we put it in in in there to try to
attach to the story
also some character is not living from
that time
but we the older we all together you
know the
give the decide also the producer that
decide uh
[Music]
to give the drama to do taste
that's that's correct to do
lala yes please go ahead please go ahead
lala yes yes
why the people are calling you boom boom
i'm curious about
because i played some in a career
and uh let's and the kids they love and
i love it even
the people call me i love it also i want
to ask this question i'm
really curious about why is cricket so
popular than
other sports in pakistan um
cricket is everything you know people
they love cricket and uh
we have some very good talent in
pakistan so genghis tell me uh i have
seen
you know a few people related to game of
thrones somehow i have seen people
calling it turkish game of thrones or
asian game of thrones do you like it or
you mind it
when you when people compare this serial
to game of thrones
uh actually actually yes yeah some of
the some of the people yes
they are they are calling this similar
like game of thrones
yeah they are they are doing really
great great job i guess
but uh they are you know for making to
imaginal in imaginal uh
the story but we are making the real
story
but but you know the costumes
you know the moments and also the
historical
that that the moment that time though i
think is all
they are all you know the passing like
uh 12th century something like this
yeah uh that that's why yeah they are
they are doing good job but we are
they are i think we did yeah really
really great job
right right and towards the end tell me
do you have any
friends here in pakistan
yes i have a friend i think
you and masimi you and
lala are 3d we are friends right they
only from here but i think now already
we are friends
that's correct also all my also all my
the pakistani super funds and pakistani
people they are my friends
now that's great yeah i can tell you
this right and lala
i see this lalajaan.com embossed on your
t-shirt what is this about
again i want my foundation to be
self-sustainable this is very important
or how did you start here
this will also help our foundation to
sustain
great perfect all the best to you lala
for this venture as well
and uh zhang is i am so grateful i am so
thankful that you gave us time
lots of love from this part of the world
you're a star
like you know people are crazy about you
mashallah and you know they remember you
in prayers
thank you so lots of love from this part
of the world and i'll say you
again happy new year
which means is mubarak to you and you
can say
if you allow me i can tell you the urdu
version of you so that
people would love people in pakistan
would love to
you know hear eat greetings from you so
can you say
mubarak if you can repeat that
mubarak that is great wow that that is
that is amazing that is amazing
and towards the end if you can say bill
dill
pakistan we would love to hear this from
pakistan
pakistan
am i saying it right which means i will
see you again inshallah
am i pronouncing it right
yes inshallah great so
yeah thank you very much uh once again
and hope to see you soon inshallah in
pakistan
and when i and lala come to turkey we'll
be more than happy and honored to see
you inshallah
inshallah inshallah i again i want i
want to say from here to
every every pakistani people in islamic
world and all my super fans
ate mubarak i wish all of them you know
the healthy
peaceful and happy eight i love all of
them i love
heart all of them thank you for your all
your support and
see you soon thank you thank you very
much inshallah
thank you very much thanks a lot
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