Jaaved Jaaferi says there’s a have to unfold ‘love and unity’ on social media: ‘One should not just talk about hate’

A multi-hyphenate persona, Jaaferi is a dancer, TV host, voice artiste, narrator and dance present choose, and stated he doesn’t chalk out a plan for the way his profession ought to pan out.

“I don’t plan my career, I just go with the flow. I wanted to be happy with what I was doing. Most of the work I did, I did connect to it but sometimes you do things as you need to do it. What I have always followed is that to stay excited about your work, you need to love your work and look forward to doing something new,” stated Jaaferi.

“I learnt a lot and competed with myself in bettering what I did last. I want to be better. You have to enjoy what you do and give your 100 per cent for whatever work you do,” he stated.

Set in modern India, Escaype Live explores the totally different journeys of six common Indians as they wrestle to win fame and fortune on a social media app referred to as Escaype Live which guarantees massive cash to the successful contestant. Will the strains between the actual and digital start to blur as they gear up for the competition? In the present created and directed by Siddharth Kumar Tewary, the actor performs Ravi Gupta, CEO of Escaype Live.

Describing his character as somebody who’s beneath strain from funders to achieve targets, Jaaferi stated whereas it’s a fictional sequence he was in a position to relate to its set-up.

“Although it is a fiction, the circumstances and surroundings are all real, it is not something out of the blue. I could identify with it,” he added.

The 58-year-old actor stated there are each professionals and cons of social media, including that there’s a have to “spread love, unity and not just talk about hate and divide”.

“Social media is being used in a negative way and a lot of negativities are coming from that. It is a package and we need to deal with it. There are positive and dangerous elements too,” he stated.

“Sometimes people want to shut their eyes to reality, be very myopic and don’t want to see depressive and negative stuff. If something is happening, be it right or wrong it will affect everybody and we need to be conscious of what is happening around,” he added.

Apart from Escaype Live, Jaaferi has a promising line-up of releases arising together with Netflix movie Jaadugar and Rahi Anil Barve’s courtroom drama Mayasabha.

Also starring Siddharth, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Swastika Mukherjee, Plabita Borthakur, Waluscha D Souza, Ritvik Sahore, Sumedh Mudgalkar, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Jagjeet Sandhu, Rohit Chandel and youngster actor Aadyaa Sharma, Escaype Live will begin streaming from Friday.

The nine-episode sequence is produced by Tewary’s One Life Studios.