In a candid chit chat with FUCHSIA, Pakistani Actor, Director and Producer Rubina Ashraf shared some interesting tidbits about herself that we’re excited to reveal – things we bet you didn’t know!
One of the finest, most skilled actresses Pakistani television has – Rubina Ashraf needs no introduction. A Pakistani actress, director, and producer. She was among the most popular actresses of the 1980s and 1990s. Rubina starred in classic PTV dramas such as “Kasak,” “Hazaron Raaste,” “Sirriyan,” “Footpath Ki Ghaas,” “Tapish,” and “Badaltey Mausam.” Additionally, she appeared in dramas including “Khuda Aur Muhabbat Season 3,” “Uraan,” “Gul-e-Rana,” and “Do Bol.”
She graced us with her presence at FUCHSIA HQ and we got to find out 10 things we didn’t know about her. Read on for the full conversation below:
1. One piece of advice you would give to your younger self?
Rubina Ashraf: “Whatever advice I’d give to my younger self, I know my younger self wouldn’t listen. So no point.” She laughed as she completed her sentence.
2. What is your life philosophy?
Rubina Ashraf: “I haven’t really formed a philosophy. I just go with the flow.”
3. 3 things women should never be guilty about?
Rubina Ashraf: “Being herself, being herself and being herself!”
4. Your first drama?
Rubina Ashraf: “It was a play from Lahore station, PTV in those times. The serial was Hazaro Rastay.”
5. What is the best part about acting?
Rubina Ashraf: “All of it. Each and every bit of it”
6. A mom guilt moment you are guilty of?
Rubina Ashraf: “A lot probably because that’s what moms are made of – guilt.”
7. When you feel low, what’s the one thing that cheers you up?
Rubina Ashraf: “I cheer myself up, and just discover, I try to figure out what right now or at that point in time is going to cheer me up and then I go for it. It can be travel, it can be going out with a friend, watching a movie, reading a book, listening to music, watching some show, anything.”
8. 3 things on your bucket list?
Rubina Ashraf: “Travel a lot, do exactly what pleases me or less I do anyways but ab toh kuch zyada hoga yeh. And I think, get to know the world that I live in better not as in travelling but as in actually knowing what it is all about, what this universe is all about.”
9. Cooking food or just eating?
Rubina Ashraf: Smiling from ear to ear, she said: “Eating!”
10. A drama you wish you had been a part of?
Rubina Ashraf: “No regrets, I am just happy to have been a part of the ones I was in.”
So, which of her drama’s has been your favourite?
