Talented and versatile TV and web actor Iqbal Khan is adding yet another feather to his cap. He is now headlining a Sony SAB TV medical drama titled Hui Gumm Yaadein. Ek Doctor, Do Zindagiyaan
Iqbal's character, Dr Dev Mehta, loses eight years of his memory.
" I have never touched this genre before, so I'm really excited about it.
And, the story about getting second chances in life is very close to my heart. Everybody should get a second chance in life."
"In fact, life is about a second chance. The first part is to figure out what's happening. The actual living i is the second part."
Here, Iqbal says his show, while focusing on the medical part, "( we did training to avoid major bloopers), we will not go granular as say, The Good Doctor." says he
The basis is human emotions, as seen even in the original Italian series, DOC – Nelle tue mani
Iqbal is joined by Gulki Joshi and Poonam Preet, who play his first wife and sister, respectively . " Dr Mehta's memory loss will create a lot of emotional upheaval with the above women in his life"
Iqbal, who comes from a family of doctors (both his sisters are medical professionals), says," The white coat is a noble profession; doctors save lives daily. But yes, on the daily grind, we TV actors slog even more than the doctor"
"I might have become a doctor, but I did not want to study those thick books. You need to invest five years to complete the studies, then comes the internship and the house job(residency)," added he
Iqbal is not worried about adding masala to give long legs to a limited seresi " We Indians have loads of such stuff to add melodrama, but our producer and the entire team will not do anything which will take away from the original premise. "
Iqbal has no problem with the longish format of desi TV;" we need to be thankful to God for the opportunity and do our best," says he
In closing, Iqbal says the biggest challenge for him during the shoot is the high emotional quotient of my character," who is always caring about others. It gets draining to maintain that level day in and day out, but then that is our job as actors to add life to any charcter."
We wish Iqbal all the best for yet another exciting outing in his long, distinguished career.

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