{"id":24316,"date":"2022-03-10T05:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/zoha-rahman-signs-up-for-anshuman-jhas-lord-curzon-ki-haveli\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T05:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:53:03","slug":"zoha-rahman-signs-up-for-anshuman-jhas-lord-curzon-ki-haveli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=24316","title":{"rendered":"Zoha Rahman signs up for Anshuman Jha&#8217;s &#8216;Lord Curzon Ki Haveli&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British-Pakistani actor Zoha Rahman, who we\u2019re watching these days in Geo TV drama <em>Dil e Momin<\/em> and have also seen as Marvel\u2019s first hijab wearing character in <em>Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em>, has now signed her next project, <em>Lord Curzon Ki Haveli<\/em>, directed by Anshuman Jha. This film will add to her roster of diverse projects, which include the Ranveer Singh starrer <em>\u201983<\/em>, <em>Foundation<\/em> on Apple TV and <em>Young Wallander<\/em> on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lord Curzon Ki Haveli<\/em> will go into production in the UK this month and Zoha will be seen alongside Emmy nominated actor Arjun Mathur (<em>Made in Heaven<\/em>), Rasika Dugal (<em>Delhi Crime<\/em> and <em>Mirzapur<\/em>) and Paresh Pahuja. It\u2019s been written by Bikas Mishra and marks Anshuman Jha&#8217;s directorial debut. Jha is a Hindi film and theatre actor best known for his role in <em>Love Sex Aur Dhoka.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lord Curzon Ki Haveli<\/em> is a black comedy about South Asians based in the UK and Zoha plays one of those characters, adding a unique cultural angle to the story.<\/p>\n<p>Shedding light on her character, she says, \u201cMy character was incredibly fun to play with, what ultimately made me say yes to this black comedy was the quiet strength she shows. 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We were on the same wavelength, so he could extract the best possible performance from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twice delayed due to the pandemic, <em>Lord Curzon Ki Haveli <\/em>is scheduled for a 2022 release. Until then, we\u2019ll continue seeing Zoha playing Ainee, Momin\u2019s (Faysal Quraishi) younger sister in Dil e Momin. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LtRui6WZxHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with <em>Something Haute<\/em>, Zoha had shared how the pandemic had impacted all her international projects and it had turned out to be a good time to come to Pakistan and sign up for a drama serial here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film is a black comedy about South Asians based in the UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,39,214,37],"tags":[1059],"class_list":["post-24316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-news","tag-83dil-e-mominlord-curzon-ki-havelispider-manzoha-rahman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}